All motorized vehicles were taken off the street for a day in Bolivia. The usually congested streets were instead occupied by street artists and other performers. The president of the country even taking part in marathon. WonderfulGufthaguf with crude woman: I must leave this blog with an insight from Crude woman. Universally disliked and shunned Crude woman makes her presence felt in public space using TV studios with amazing dexterity. I found her going through the book on Thugs in Medieval India. A veteran in matters of manipulation, she has her own PR working for her personal halo. She explained that one has to be in a strategic position to maximise all events, whether it is celebration, death or protests. The way she justified her crassness was shocking “See look at the picture of these thugs”, she showed the illustration. Group of rough looking men were hiding at vantage position across the hill overlooking travellers. It made their job easy for a surprise attack on hapless travelling party and loot the booty. She explained that she has her PR working for her vantage space. The first step for capitalising, or shall we say seize the moment, is to exaggerate the person. Once inflated, he will fall (“outsiders are novice on matter of thuggery” she explained), so one has to be ready for suck. “Like this” and took a raspuri from the table and stuffed it onto her mouth. In matter of seconds she spat out the seed, dry and clean. All the while she tweeted using her left hand and a desultory smile (to show me how easy these things are) “let us join Anna, Anna thum marthe raho hum thumhare saath hai”. Within moments it was ‘breaking news’ in many TV channels; they flashed “Crude Woman says Join Anna”. It was an amazing feat. Exactly a minute later her competitor (its self consuming world they create, and try to suck us in) was 'breaking news' with her own one liner. She smiled “pahunche hue logon ka takkar hamesha pahunche hue logon ke saath he hotha hai”. I was told by the servant (a tall man with amazingly sad eyes) that recently crude woman had started to suffer from an affliction; she is startled from her sleep, clutching one of her ears as if it is a microphone and shouting “I want to rebut ..please let me”, and then slumps back into deep sleep. Later I came to know this has become a common occurrence in many cities wherein any member of the family was known to have visited TV studio....I guess it is time to leave this crude world but must add this one has lot of potential to be a full blown short story. Maybe i will work on it whenever i have time.
