Saturday, April 15, 2006

Indian Adukkala Service?

8th April, 2006.Union Public Service Commission,Dholpur House, New Delhi.
The donkey gained audience of the Lion king for the second time. ( Prologue: The Holy Biography of a Donkey )
The Lion's board consisted of 4 other members. The donkey braved the initial roars of the lion. A creature from eastern jungles who had exceptionally opaque dentures asked the donkey whether he had studied International law.
Donkey:No saaar.That wasn't my option in my LLB. course.
creature:Must be interested in it though..
Donkey:No saaar..not at all.
creature: Then u must be loving Constitutional law..
Donkey: ehaw ehaw...
After the creature proved the donkey's incompetence in any form of law he roared in utter staisfaction. The only human being on the board,Sri.Lalit Man Singh, then asked a few sensible questions which were answered based on the donkey's past interactions with other human beings, especially the Dhobi.
A lady with an abnoxious look carried the conversation forward.
Lady: Beta, u have a red banana in ur State? Tell me why it is red?( wow!)
Donkey: Yes Maaadam, we have red, yellow and green banana. But I dunno why it is red.( Still thinking why there is no black banana.)
Lady: Explain the banana stem in layman's language...
Donkey: The lower portions of the leaves fuse and form a fleshy cylindrical mass that attaches itself to the soil by means of underground roots there by making it an erect structure, though the fleshy stem expels water like fluid upon incision, essentially proving that the stem is basically standing on its own purely on will power...
Lady: bas kar beta bas....Just tell me what u had for breakfast..
Donkey: Puttu and kadala.(grams)
Lady: what?
Donky: err...Puttu and banana( aha..she'll ask me where kadala is cultivated. No way, I'd rather have banana!)
Lady: Beta, how do u make puttu?
Donkey: Maaadam, take a cylindrical vessel and fill it with raw rice flour and some coconut gratings.Apply steam through it..
Lady: bas beta bas..tell me how do u make Idly..
Donkey: ( do I look like a cook..) Well, take a metal plate with depressions which shall hold the preospective Idlies in the form of fermented dough of a particular consistency. Steam it.Eat it.
Lady: How do u ferment it beta?
Donkey: Put in yeast Maadam.The Fungus will ferment it.( Yeast in Idly? My Mathaji said "Ayyo")
Lady: Acha acha..( Will try this recipie on my hubby) What do u eat for lunch?
Donkey:( Geee..I think I'm being short listed as a chef) Rice Maaadam.
Lady: Only rice? Will it be balanced diet? What protein do u take Donkey beta?
Donkey:Fish Maadam.( no grams,no soya bean...hell, again I dunno where these are cultivated ...I'd rather have fish) And we catch it from water.
Before the Lady cud move to Dinner, the last member, probably hungry by then took the baton. He asked some things which the donkey noticed to be passing precisely a few centimetres above its cranium. Since the donkey could not possibly convince him, he tried his best to confuse him. He looked sufficiently bewildered at his answers.
By then two of the board members were very hungry and two others badly wanted to rush to the urinals. As a courtesy gesture, the donkey withdrew from the room after proper salutations and hew haw.The Donkey was mighty impressed with the Board. Wonder what the board thought of him.
The sure casualty of the story is the Lady member's hubby.

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