Re: re nukkad - doleful ditties

["aryaone" <>]

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Tip of the day:  Shared joy is doubled; shared pain is halved.  
Thus do we refute entropy.
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Doleful Ditties - a compendium of nonsense which could pass 
for wisdom, or the other way around.

GOOD MORNING MY DEAR

Morning. Sunday. Breakfast table. Ramu brings in the plates.
Clink of tea things as Geeta pours for the both. Mahesh sits
reading the Times.

Geeta: Take your tea, it'll turn cold.
Mahesh: (mumbles as he sips) Ummm.

Both eat a little of the toast, sip tea. Atmosphere is convivial, 
cozy, intimate.

Mahesh: (putting down the paper) Dr. Sippy has agreed to
Tuesday next. Will that suit you?

Geeta: (glad to get his attention) Sure, as long as it's OK 
with you.

Mahesh: (importantly) Suno, I won't be able to make it. An
important meeting with Bossji, you know.

Geeta: (visibly upset) Can't you have the family work come
first once? I can't manage all this by myself!

Mahesh: O mummy has agreed to be with you. After all
the whole procedure will take maybe two, three hours.

Geeta: (completely losing it) Your mother!? I don't believe
this. Do you know what a mess she made the last time? She 
came with Kevalram Punditji to make sure my "kok" [womb]
would remain fruitful for further boys right after the abortion! 
It was horrible, the whole ward was smirking at her antics.

Mahesh: (taking up the Times again, gruffly) I have said what
I want to say. I don't want to engage in "bakwas" [nonsense].
And she is a sweet gentle soul who shopuld be respected.

Geeta: (now cold, seething inwardly) Then why don't you
have her lie on the table and get the girl fetus torn out?

Mahesh: [throws paper, pushes back chair dramatically)
You incorrigible bitch! Is this how they have taught you 
to respect elders?

Geeta: (matching the action): She comes there over my dead
body! You climbed me and leaked! You prayed for a son
for your insane family's lineage! So you come and witness
murder of that idiot baby, damn her soul!

Mahesh sighs, the same sigh of misunderstood husbands
the world over, and with an air of having said enough, 
walks towards the bathroom to shower and get ready to
go to attend the talk by Mahayogi Gupta Ananda on
Inner Peace Through Love.

Mahesh: (turns, with the air of giving in) It's OK. I will
come, not to worry. I'll make some arrangement at the
office.

Geeta: (now suddenly happy, runs to hug him) O thank
you dear. Dr. Sippy is really good at this. In no time he
will have the girl out, even if he may have to cut her up,
she is four months on.

Mahesh is heard to hum a favorite song from the film
Andaz, "Tu kaheeee agarrr jeevannn bharr, mai geeeta
sunaa taaa jaaa wuuunnn."*

Geeta turns to dial her friend Gugu to update her on 
the latest gossip and casually mention how Mahesh
upset his schedule to be with her, when they will go 
next Tuesday to Dr. Sippy's, to kill their 3rd female 
fetus.

She knows this will make Gugu turn green with jealousy.

*If thou wishest my darling, all my life will serenade
you with my song, I love youuuu."

Arya.




























































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