A dose of bulldozer as an accessory

The bulldozer is a funny piece of motorised equipment. It's essential for construction work, in removing earth and building debris. But it's also used for deconstruction work in demolishing building structures. So, with the latest craze for toy bulldozer models in Uttar Pradesh, which version of the bulldozer is one celebrating? The answer lies, as always, in the subtle answers provided in mythology. While Brahma is the creator and Shiv is the destroyer - Vishnu more on administrative duty to preserve what's standing unless a project has been agreed upon and signed with Maheshwar Pvt Ltd - essentially, they're on the same team. After all, what is a bulldozer but a big tractor with an attached blade.

With that sorted out, let's move to the fashion-worthiness of bulldozers. Wearing a miniature plastic bulldozer may be the latest fashion-cum-political statement, but there are issues one should be aware of if one chooses to wear it as a regular headgear. The claw can seem a bit menacing in dinner parties and sangeets. And, for those with a vivid imagination - granted, not many - it can resemble a dinosaur ready to lunge and bite. So, while it's perfectly understandable to flaunt it the next few days even if you're not a Bulldozer Baba fan, may we suggest wearing a spade on your head in the future. At least you can call it a spade.