The piteous case of Mr.Dodo and Mr. Angrez.

This morning, after parking my car in the basement parking, I was waiting for the lift to come and there were two young men standing next to me- an Indian and a foreigner. For convenience sake, let’s call them “The Dodo “and “The Angrez” respectively. So, Mr. Dodo and Mr. Angrez were busy in their conversation and I was busy in the usual shenanigans one indulges in while waiting for the lift …pacing the floor, checking the phone, cursing the lift, staring back at the guard who always seems to be staring at you...and the likes.

Then suddenly, the lift decided to make an appearance .The Dodo was closest to the lift doors but seems he had no recognition of the fact. He kept standing there and blabbering his heart out to the Angrez who, if I put it lightly, seemed to be love smitten by the “gyaan” that was being shared by the other guy. It took me a while to grasp but grasp I did...The two were showing no signs of getting into the lift and so, I realized I need to act fast or miss the bus. Hence, I moved myself ahead of the two with an expertise that can only be paralleled by those fast-as-lightning kung fu pandas!

The moment I entered the lift, I saw the Dodo and the Angrez regain their senses and probably the reality that they were there to take the lift, dawned on them. The two made a hasty entry into the lift just before the doors were about to close and crush at least one of them to a squishy pulp. I believe the duo thought I was to be blamed for this little dent in their morning bliss. The Dodo gave me a stare that seemed to accuse me the same way as probably Rama would have accused Sita in Ramayana and caused her to pray for the ground beneath to split open and take her in …. Only, in this case, he was met with an equally accusing and nasty stare …… I guess something his little brain was not expecting! The Angrez was busy staring into his cup of coffee and probably wishing he drowns in that at that very moment.

Anyways, stares over, the Dodo got back to his gyaan. I was not really interested in listening to whatever he was saying but then when the decibel levels are loud enough for the entire universe to hear, who am I to ignore?

Seems our dude was telling the Angrez about how our PM and FM are the only two educated ministers who have got……in his own words …..”degrees in like you know economics and commerce “…and how the rest are just an illiterate bunch and that is why they are not able to understand the policies that the PM and the FM make and hence, the poor execution! And all this is obviously the reason why our country has never had a past, is struggling in its present and obviously, has no future!

All this while, the other hapless fellow was just nodding and probably wondering at how he happened to land in this country of illiterate politicians and highly enlightened and opinionated citizens!

Really, Mr. Dodo, you bowled me over with your judgement and your pronouncements on the present predicament and future of our country. Nobody would deny that you were probably right in some measure …that majority of our politicians really are an unruly, uncouth bunch who are in a very big way, responsible for a lot of wrong in our country….but to say that what you view and how you view is what the stark reality of this country is …… How presumptuous and illiterate are you in that case?

**God bless me on a morning which starts with encountering morons of first order just as I enter office! **