Slumdog Millionaire 2.0
Sherwood Forest, the legendary stomping-ground of Robin Hood and his merry band, today, a 450 acre country park, pales in comparison to ...3.287 million km² that is India. While the former ‘robbed’ the rich to lavish on the needy, today’s demonetization appears to have ‘emasculated the needy’ to punish the ‘dubious Indian’ and in the process to ‘educate Indians, among other things - 'Less Cash Economics 101'.
Scrounging for cash? Don’t lose heart! Haven’t you heard of the National lucky draw schemes for customers and traders going for cashless transactions?
Before we get there, you could be the next ‘crorepati’.
No, inane questions asked, none to be answered, you’d never have to phone a friend. None of the agonizing, cat and mouse ‘lock kiya jaye’ - a brand new version of KBC. The anchor for this version of KBC, well, this version does not need one! While some describe the new Lucky Grahak Yojana / Scheme and Digi Dhan Vyapari Yojana / Scheme as the latest version of KBC, a few refer to them as ‘SDM 2.0’.
Slum Dog Millionaire 2.0 – how appropriate. Plunge folks into the debris of despair, unable to bear the stench of the ‘dubious’ some emerge, suffocated, smeared and soiled, ‘triumphantly’ clutching on to, but a picture of a ‘celebrity’.
Not content declaring, virtually every Indian ‘dubious’, the tag was officially appended to Bankers, courtesy, ‘Operation Black Banker’. The recent regular and fantastic, ‘cash hauls’ has the ‘less-cash’ bhakts panicking.
Admist the earlier ‘burning and floating’ of ‘old 500 and 1000 notes’, Is there any truth to the rumours, now rife that these were ‘ploys and gimmicks’ of ‘bhakts’ while fanatically ferreting out ‘patience’ and ‘patriotism’ of the ‘needy’ languishing in long queues.
Surprisingly the ‘burning and floating notes’ have mysteriously stopped. Regular ‘cash hauls’ continue to defy the imagination and add insult and injury to the hitherto ‘patient’ and ‘patriotic’ who now realize that ‘Black Bankers’ were ‘passing on the buck’ to their ‘dubious masters’. Neither patience nor patriotism can dent the ‘dubious Indian’.
Amalendu, a strapping lad from Bihar, lured to Delhi by the teaching profession, among other things, loved to ride his brand new Bullet. I run into him, after nearly three months and asked, ‘where have you been?’. ‘Oh, Sirji...’ he replied, ‘shayad aapko nahi pata, I had a small accident’. ‘What? When? I hope all well now, you do look alright’ I added. ‘Sir, ab sab theek hai, and I can now write with my left hand’ he proudly replied with a radiant smile that lit up his bespectacled face. ‘After my accident...’ he continued, ‘I could not use my right hand, as a mathematics teacher, I have to use the blackboard ... slowly ... slowly, I started writing with my left hand ... and Sirji ... now, I have no problem!’
I am still not sure whether Amalendu attended a ‘Less Cash Economics 101’ or ‘Discovering Your Non- Dominant Hand 101’ session!
Before we get there, you could be the next ‘crorepati’.
No, inane questions asked, none to be answered, you’d never have to phone a friend. None of the agonizing, cat and mouse ‘lock kiya jaye’ - a brand new version of KBC. The anchor for this version of KBC, well, this version does not need one! While some describe the new Lucky Grahak Yojana / Scheme and Digi Dhan Vyapari Yojana / Scheme as the latest version of KBC, a few refer to them as ‘SDM 2.0’.
Slum Dog Millionaire 2.0 – how appropriate. Plunge folks into the debris of despair, unable to bear the stench of the ‘dubious’ some emerge, suffocated, smeared and soiled, ‘triumphantly’ clutching on to, but a picture of a ‘celebrity’.
Not content declaring, virtually every Indian ‘dubious’, the tag was officially appended to Bankers, courtesy, ‘Operation Black Banker’. The recent regular and fantastic, ‘cash hauls’ has the ‘less-cash’ bhakts panicking.
Admist the earlier ‘burning and floating’ of ‘old 500 and 1000 notes’, Is there any truth to the rumours, now rife that these were ‘ploys and gimmicks’ of ‘bhakts’ while fanatically ferreting out ‘patience’ and ‘patriotism’ of the ‘needy’ languishing in long queues.
Surprisingly the ‘burning and floating notes’ have mysteriously stopped. Regular ‘cash hauls’ continue to defy the imagination and add insult and injury to the hitherto ‘patient’ and ‘patriotic’ who now realize that ‘Black Bankers’ were ‘passing on the buck’ to their ‘dubious masters’. Neither patience nor patriotism can dent the ‘dubious Indian’.
Amalendu, a strapping lad from Bihar, lured to Delhi by the teaching profession, among other things, loved to ride his brand new Bullet. I run into him, after nearly three months and asked, ‘where have you been?’. ‘Oh, Sirji...’ he replied, ‘shayad aapko nahi pata, I had a small accident’. ‘What? When? I hope all well now, you do look alright’ I added. ‘Sir, ab sab theek hai, and I can now write with my left hand’ he proudly replied with a radiant smile that lit up his bespectacled face. ‘After my accident...’ he continued, ‘I could not use my right hand, as a mathematics teacher, I have to use the blackboard ... slowly ... slowly, I started writing with my left hand ... and Sirji ... now, I have no problem!’
I am still not sure whether Amalendu attended a ‘Less Cash Economics 101’ or ‘Discovering Your Non- Dominant Hand 101’ session!
Labels: Demonetization, Digi Dhan, Dubious Indian, Lucky Grahak
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