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A Perfect Product’s Rambling


I'll show up half-inebriated, probably shuffling in my Italian, and I know you will be waiting for me flapping that stamped boarding past of the most affordable flight ticket. We're going to our ‘parents' ' and to pay a visit to our loved ones.

I expect the arrival gate to be thronged with people shouting my name and those Kalashnikov and INSAS-wielding lots preparing themselves to hobnob with me. I know your 'executive dad' will be in his 'Indian Pajero', and everyone will be staring at you, the handbag that you bought through the new app; the Fitflop pair which are still trendy in London, and recently launched in the Make In Hinduvta market; and then there are those dark sunglasses which help you veil your rolling eyes when you say those nonsense.

But we are going to 'our parents'' and see our long-missed mates. I want to dip my tired feet in the slow current of Sekmai river like those successful corporate dudes you often see in Shutterstock or Getty collections while my mates roles in their Jockey boxers.

When I come up, I want the warm and yet visible sun to be over my shoulder, the breeze at my face, and then to drive home only to have another get-together evening of bonfire, plenty of the thousand-years old Scotch and the Kakwa-bought largest and heaviest ducks.

In that party, I want my MPS and MCS and the Indian army officers to join me in their uniform so that we can easily drive through or what they say 'paint the town red' in English in our lubricated state. I need all of these, I have been dreaming of them, for I have saved up enough; paid for several insurance policies; have a decent roof over my head; my finger can feel the weight of the carat-gold; and I'm planning trips. Yes, trips.

But something in me says that this is incomplete, and there are people who can actually make me feel. But I religiously follow the 'commandments' in those 'biz guru books'. You have to strike a balance while you remain focused on the 'defined objective'.

Money talks, money is a killer, and money can disrupt your internal harmony. So in life, you combine what Times of India's Speaking Tree says with smart investment, and mental tranquility.

This is happiness. You might have heard about the German pilot, dude, he looks healthy in all the photos, but he was sick. In our Hinduvta country, we are lucky that everyone is 'brother and sister'. We know that our values are quite different from theirs. 

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