Part ways as VVIPs drive through town

One of the perks of getting the job of, say, president, for the few years one gets it, is that even without a cabinet meeting or anywhere urgent to get to, as a 'VVIP' (almost everyone in 'public office' is a VIP), your drive to and fro any part of any town within the undisputed territory of India is as smooth as a baby's buttocks. And as it should be, we suppose, with any titular job involving pomp and pageantry. This, while the 'villagers' of our cities, which the president of our lengthy and wide land passes through in her or his cavalcade, have to bear a bit of extra agony of journeys that are as unsmooth as a baby's thrown-up meal. But what sometimes momentarily raises brows of the citizenry-chattel out there is when the city police issues a traffic advisory ahead of presidential road trips that tell us that some main roads and thoroughfares will be cordoned off or 'regulated' (read: cordoned off) for more than 4 hours 'to ensure a smooth and secure visit for the country's highest constitutional authority'.

The old Kingsway may have turned to Rajpath and then to Kartavya Path. But raja-rani zamana-style 'Stop citizen! Let the VVVVIP pass' continues. Which is perfectly ok, we suppose. After all, it's not as if when such a passage through India doesn't happen, we, not-even-IPs, get to traverse through roads resembling autobahns.