Of Sirs, With Love
This
piece was written to commemorate a guest lecture in a visiting faculty’s class.
The visiting faculty was Prof. Kalyan Das. The style is based on a popular
column in a mag called Blitz, then edited by Russi Karanjia.
The SLAVE who’s a clinical psychologist
gave a gueshtu lecture yesterday on ‘Managing Change’, instead of the SLAVE who
is WELFARE. . Samajh gaye na?
A large part of his opening was punctuated
by shrieks and creaks of a tortured door- opened by the late Lateefs (and
Lateefas) at regular intervals. The speaker paused at the twentieth
interruption while saying “For instance, how do you sell home computers?” (CRE…AK)
Looking at the door with trepidation, he
continued, “We’ll see how….when the door is closed.”
He exhibited brilliant wit while narrating this
one about how children relate to SCHEMAS- the images of things they see.
A child which sees a dog for the first time
might say to its father, “Daddy, dog!” and point to it.
The pleased father, feeling proud of his
child, may respond, “Shabhash beti. You are all set for the IIM already.”
Such was the KINSHIP effect that Jockey (a
classmate) asked 3-minute-each questions full of words and containing some
sentences. What JUNTA now wonders is- Who is next in the line of the
illustrious SLAVE dynasty? K.C. SLAVE (the sweet shop) or our own SLAVE-H
(Dash, another classmate) who is a LINE ?
-In collaboration with Rajan of India aka
ROI.
