Here begins the mis-management

It is funny when a before and after kind of advertisement appears in the newspaper. And most of these are for slimming clinics, or places that promise to make you beautiful.

This one before and after I will talk about, is not one of the above. It is from an article in Gurgaon Plus, a weekly magazine sent out by the Times of India for residents of the city of Gurgaon. They do try to take populistic journalism initiatives, by clicking photographs of failing civic amenities and reporting on those photos. When the authorities take action, these guys do a before and after segment. This post is the story of one such segment gone wrong.

This is the “before” photo:

A very haywire traffic junction, which happens to be very near to my office and I travel from there daily. It is really messy.

Now see the “after” image:

Now what the TOI guys noticed is the cop standing in the left corner of the “After” image. What is funny is, even after the traffic cop is standing there, a school bus is driving up the road THE WRONG WAY(see encircled bus on right side in the “after” image).

Now, nothing wrong with the newspaper taking a good initiative. But some editor should have looked at the image and said, well, there is a cop, but he is not doing his job!!!

A freudian slip perhaps? Well, whatever it was, the headline was what set me off laughing.

It said,

Here begins the management

Some management this is.

P.S: Apologies for the poor resolution photographs.