'talks'

Account of some overheard spontaneous utterances of office employees among their cubicles.  The talks are initiated by some pawan who is sipping office provided coffee, the taste of which makes it accessibly inaccessible while glancing at some news items on his computer screen.

Pawan( to Amit ) - oh my god, the rail budget is glittering everywhere. Sadanand Gowda is riding fast on his bullet train and his PPP stuff but
(now talks to himself )
Mr. Gowda, a nameplate with your name written over it in black has been found down under some shoes but don't worry, its no problem. since you have shunned populism in your railway budget, it is just an applause for you. Time has changed, you know

( Pawan gestures to Amit )

Pawan - you know Amit, if today anyone, especially a politician has to know the degree of appreciation for carrying out his due responsibility, it lies all exposed in their opposition's intensity of agitation.

Amit - ( claps )you sit here applauding Gowda ji and there the boss is ready with one of his most dangerous grimace. Are you done with your report, the great pawan ji??

Pawan - ya absolutely brother, I have very smartly adorned the previous year report with a better font and have also increased the font size, all for none other than my respected boss
( to himself ) - respected boss? wow, what an irony!

Amit - ha, great but till previous year, English reverberated in our office and presently our boss has been profoundly inspired to join hands in our home ministry's hocus pocus of demanding all documents
in hindi. So, you will have to work or atleast translate your adorned report !!

( amit whines ) - All is stupidity bro, it feels like halting an already late train at a crossing to wait for the rajdhani. The government work is already tortoiselike and now this hindi chapter will bring only further hitches.

( by this time a boy, in his 10 or 12 from a stall at the other side of road enters with 6 cups of tea )

Pawan - are chothu, aaj fir late ho gaya, yaar ab to india mein bullet train bhi aa gayi, tu bhu jaldi aaya kar

Chothu - bullet train to theek hai lekin jis din vo pass wale uncle ki pension time par aa jayegi na, us din aapki chai bhi time pe hogi.
( pawan and amit exchange dumbstruck faces )

Chothu ( waits till every employee takes his glass of tea ) - vaise sahib, ek joke sunau aapko, aajkal market mein chal raha hai, lekin mujhe samaj nahi aa raha

Pawan - haan, haan suna

Chothu - ek baar ek function mein sare bade khiladiyon ko bulaya gaya, india se, foreign se, har sport ke. Sab khush the, ek dusre ke gale lag rahe the lekin do log na to hath mila rahe the or na gale lag rahe the, batao kaun?

Pawan - yaar chothu, salman shahrukh hi honge lekin tune bhi to players ki party bulai, tu hi bata kaun the?

Chothu - sachin, Sharapova

( pawan and amit again exchange surprised glances but eventually laugh out a little )

Pawan - yaar amit, indians are strange,  no? I mean today they want sachin, tomorow they will ask, do you know mr. Kejriwal? Ridiculous yaar !

( now to chothu, after citing the sachin - sharapova incident ) - ek baat bata chothu,  tujhe pata hai sharapova kaun hai.?

Chothu - haan sahib, suna hai achcha lawn tennis khelti hai or dikhti bhi achchi hai, aajkal customers bad gaye hain sahib isliye meri jankaari bhi bad gayi hai

Pawan - badiya hain chothu, yahan hamari smriti iraani ji ki degree ka ata pata nahi hai or tu bina degree ke hi sabse aage nikal raha hai
            
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