Funda about Anda (Egregiously Eggy)

At the rate that eggs are being chucked around these days, “deem” or “anda” sellers are not complaining.

- DOLA MITRA

Have sales gone up? I asked a vendor. “Ki je bolen, Madam,” (Oh come on, Madam) he grinned sheepishly. I didn’t really get a clear picture. I genuinely do want to know though. I mean where are all these eggs coming from? In at least one news video which is playing out daily these evenings, I spotted an elderly man in a crowd holding onto the two eggs in his hand but not throwing them. He was shouting some slogans and brandishing his fist with the eggs gingerly held in the palms, but not throwing them. I suppose he decided not to waste fourteen/fifteen rupees. Each egg, after all, costs between seven and eight rupees.