Miracle of the highest kind

http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/08/stories/2009100856672400.htm

A Bloody Evening

As we sat there sipping the unusually sweet toddy we could see, just outside the window, a crowd gathers up, on the narrow stretch that borders the river. It was not a crowd in the actual sense, just a small gathering. Perhaps they must have been hanging around there for quite some time. The evening sky was blazing with a bright hue of red. Red, it was to come, to flow.

Then they came with the roosters; one a spotless white and the other a riot of colours.My friend suggested going out to have a better view, but then it was not required as we still had one. By that time the ‘warming up’ had begun. The majestic roosters were caressed, fondled and sprinkled with water by their respective ‘Chicken Georges’, of course the desi versions.

Then I saw a box passed over several hands. A close view and that it was, a Nataraj Instrument Box. It was neatly tied in the centre with a wide rubber band. What does a Nataraj Instrument Box got to do with Cockfighting? The ‘instruments’ it contained were lethal enough to decide the destiny of the roosters, I understood as someone opened it. Small sword-like pieces of steel, bright and shining. After carefully examining each piece the men chose two. One for each rooster. Once ‘equipped’, they were left in the arena outlined by the men around.

First, both of them sprang up in the air and in that flurry flew feathers and dust. Then, it began. Raw violence that erupts from the instinct to survive, kill or be killed. The method of overpowering was to jump on the other’s back and force it to the ground. And in that process, as if to offer a better show, there appeared a stream of blood on the white rooster’s back. Fatal it was, for it could never recover from that. Within a few minutes it was all soaked in blood. But the men were in no mood to allow it to give up. It was forced back to the fight and was ferociously attacked by the would-be champ. Whenever it made an effort to lift its head the winner ensured that it be grounded. Finally, when it became too weak to move, it lay there trying to capture a glimpse of the world in the last moments of its life through half-closed eyes. Then, it was taken away unceremoniously as the men went on with their business of counting the money.

What’s your idea of a cartoon?

No cartoon ever disturbed me this much. Never ever. It’s not that I hold any such notion that the sole purpose of cartoons is to evoke laughter. But this one by Surendra published in The Hindu on 25-09-09…! What a way to show the sad plight of millions in our country!

How boring life would’ve been if it was all about the seeming?

The Lift is a Male

I’ve made that amazing discovery this afternoon. After having tea on the third floor I was waiting for the lift to come up. I had pressed the button a couple of times but it was showing a red G, and then came two girls who work in another office in the building. They were chatting and chatting as the future of the universe was depended upon it. I kept on pressing the button and it always showed G somewhat defiantly. Fed up, I thought of walking down all the way. Then, one of the girls, yup that dashing gorgeous damsel, pressed the button. Gosh! How could a machine be that bloody, damn mean? The moment she pressed the button (or was it a caress?) the arrow stood up showing 1, then 2 and finally 3.

DJP expels Sajwant Jingh

FEW DELPHI: The Dharmik Janata Party on Wednesday expelled Sajwant Jingh, its veteran leader and an MP.

A meeting of the parliamentary board aka ‘Achinthyan Bhayanak’ in Vimla unanimously decided to remove the former Union Minister from the primary membership of the party.

The decision is being read in the party as a strong message to those who tend to deviate from the high morals set by DJP.

The expulsion, following his controversial interview to a TV channel in which he disclosed that he fathered his children by having sexual intercourse with his wife, has triggered a controversy in the party.


Ever since the remark was aired, the DJP leadership as well as its rank and files were up in arms against him. The DJP leaders dubbed it as morally degrading and as a going back from the culture and traditions of the land.

Senior leader and DJP Spokesman Gagan Gulgul justified the decision to expel Sajwant Jingh by stating that Mr. Jingh went against the party’s “core moral beliefs.” Answering to the reporters, he stated that both the leaders and followers of DJP live a life sans bodily pleasures and sire through co-yoga and transcendental exchange of karmic energy. He slapped a reporter who enquired further, saying that it could not be understood by lesser mortals.

“We don’t have anything to do with Mr. Jingh’s ideology and beliefs, but we condemn his expulsion from DJP strongly. For us either Mr. Jingh’s claim or the DJP’s claim about procreation don’t make any sense. Procreation by means of co-yoga is an attempt to opiate the masses where as it’s a bourgeois activity to make babies by resorting to intercourse”, said leader of the Contortionist Party of Bindia (Morons), Biplab Kumar. He refused to comment further without consulting the apex body of the patry, Fool-it Bureau. However, when this reporter contacted the Fool-it Bureau Chief, Kripesh Parat around midnight, he promised that he would air his views tomorrow after discussions with the immediately available Fool-it Bureau, Mrs. Parat.

Walk When You Talk

What an Idea Sirji!