Church ke peeche chai pe charcha
(Chai-biscoot pe elecsun ki ek katha)
The tiny space in front of the chai ka dukaan behind the church was
chock-full. There were about 13 people standing there, in small groups, enjoying chai-biscoot and discussing the recent
elections.
As I waited for my glass
of kadak chai and khaara biscoot I overheard a lungi-kurta
pehna hua bandha recounting this story to his pant-shirt clad comrade and veshti-sattai attired snehithan:
“I voted my phevrit
candidet. First he was small contractor who built my house for less rate in
less time. After some time of very less years he became big contractor due to
helping nature. After words, luck visited him suddenly by wrong address. He
stood in local munshi paltry elecsun due to push of relatives and pull of old
phrends. He became munshi because of due to there was fight between the top two
candidet and he was became third chaice. After that, again luck came suddenly
by wrong number. He was allotted land site by jumping waiting list and getting
lucky number. He told everybody, including Ali and Sundari, that even he did
not at least expect it. How luckily lucky! Then one rich biznessman person
gifted him latest model 4-wheeler car last year due to good work and kindliness.
See, so many things happened to him due to simply better luck. His lottery hit
him! Lucky drip!
After some time, due to
brain wave, he built one temple. After great difficulty and many searchings,
one pujari came there and he looked
after him. He became caretaker of temple and also of pujari by default at the one and same time.
Due to no time, he left
his earlier workership of contract work and retired. So he became retired contractor
because of no time to contract.
After lookaftering the
temple and also the pujari, he was
peacefully timepassing his time by eating and sleeping and again eating and
sleeping. Then one day some peoples came to pray to temple. After praying and
taking the God darshan, they knocked
his door also and made him special request to stand in club elecsun in their FLIM (Film Lovers In Motion) Club so that he may become win. He accepted to agree
but due to big mishtick, he applied his name for general elecsun instead of club
elecsun. Suddenly he saw his mishtick, but no time for correctation. Club elecsun
was already finish and general elecsun was ready to happen. Finally, his friends
put force with pressure to stand in general elecsun and not leave. And also they
paymented the deposit for him.
See how the luck is behind
him. In the elecsun, some missed understanding happened by other two candidet
and they gave all votes to him to avoid the other candidet. He became the win.
He is now thinking to decide which paltry he will join to carry on the gourment.
But I am happy because my
candidet is win.”
I retreated to a far
corner to have my tea biscoot in
peace.
Tchah, pah and bah!
©Shiva
Kumar 2014
