Satya Sagar
A Street Play
Sutradhar: Come one! Come all! Witness the grandest drama ever enacted on the face of this earth! The story of N.Ramayana! Narada’s Ramayana! Narada the public relations manager of Maha Vishnu himself! Narada, the muni who propagated Aryan culture south of the Vindhyas! Narada, the intellectual power broker! [...]
Satya Sagar
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Scene Five:
Kamdev is speaking to someone on the phone. Puts the phone down.
Kamdev: Nickkerji. The American consultant will come soon.
The consultant Jatasar comes in with his suitcase, wearing a hat and sunglasses.
Jatasar: Good morning gentlemen!
Nickkerji: Good morning? It is already night here!
Jatasar: I react only to the [...]
Satya Sagar
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Scene Two:
Ghulam goes off to get the tea, into which he crushes and puts a few of the truth-telling herbal leaves. All this with a wicked smile on his face.
Ghulam gives the tea to the CM. Just as he is about to drink it Balwa Julum comes [...]
Satya Sagar
Cast of Characters
Mukhya Mantri: Chief Minister of a state, who also happens to be an ayurvedic doctor
Kamdev: Sanyasi who performs yoga on television channels and has his own ayurvedic medicine business
Ghulam: Personal secretary to CM who acts like a slavish clown but in reality resents the CM’s arrogance and bossing around. Always with chains [...]
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Corporations Out of My Hair! or ‘Mairay Pochchu!’
‘Scientists discover way to convert human hair into high grade fuel’ read the innocuous looking news item tucked away in a corner of the technology pages of my daily newspaper.
At first I didn’t take it seriously and thought it was another self-promoting piece of propaganda from some corporate biotech lab somewhere. [...]