The Silence of the Lambs

It took me more than one whole day to figure out the �mango people in a banana republic� thing and I felt horribly alienated. Everyone else on both side of the Vindhyas seemed to get it and oh how! Even after I �got it,� I couldn�t understand what everyone was upset about. We have been a country operated as a commercial enterprise for private profit for the last seven decades and every time people try to change that they either get arrested or publicly maligned, get offered a parliament seat or driven to bankruptcy. It has never bothered us. Moreover, the political classes have been unperturbed by comments such as these by the common man for much longer than seven decades. Not being affected by what the common man feels or has to go through is as good as mandatory for survival in the political system now. If anything, this comment only differentiates Vadra from the rest of the people who feel the same way but know better than to verbalize it. So I have been a little disoriented of late. But then, this post is about Barfi.

No, no, not about how mango people feel about politicians � I meant the movie in which Priyanka gives Ranbir one of those ones.

When I finally started writing this post, even Barfi jokes had disappeared from the social media. In the face of the usual jibes about my tardiness, I plonked along, more in an effort to stand by all those who fall in the grey area of borderline intelligence, for whom it takes time to �get� things, to do things and to make things happen. World Mental Health day came. World Mental Health day went. But some posts just sit there, know what I mean? This post is a tribute to late blooming, deliberate living, two-finger typing, beer-bellied web crawling, and forgetting what you were sent to the store to get. This one is for each one of us who were called slow pokes, lazy bums, duffers, and had to carry home �capable of doing better� remarks in our report cards term after term. This one is for slow learners and the hearing impaired, as well as for the never-married. In case you have already forgotten what you came to the store to buy � this post is about Barfi.

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