The Shah Of Blah

Blah! Blah! Blah!

Another night. Another party. Another balcony. Another person. Same old stories.

NDTV We The People... Long weekend ahead and nothing to do... Mighty Man hadn't seen the wonder... With no luggage and scarce money got onto a Roadways bus... Checked into a 100 a night room at midnight... Its Eid so entry is free... Escaped four TTs without tickets in 3AC... In under 24 hours and Rs. 500 we were back to base... Btw, we saw the Taj...

Uttam's election losing (mind you not winning) party... Bishen tried killing every dog on the road... Cops stopped us outside Hindu... Tyagi was drunk and puking... We were in for it that night... Driver steps out and puts something in his pocket... "Hum police hain hum aapki checking kar sakte hain"... "Main koi terrorist hoon. Check karna hai. Ye lo check kar lo"... Off come the pants....

ISC physics practicals... Vernier calliper we hadn't used for 2 years... Ran after Kiki across the corridor... Door slammed shut.... Cut my hand.... Trail of blood till the hospital... "Don't even think about writing for a week"... Math exam in 2 days... Two pain killers before and three in between... Slept for 18 hours straight... Still finished Comp practicals before anyone... Invigilator thought I was shamming... Landed up with a 95 in Physics... And guess what, I didn't have to count it...

Same story. Same people. Same situation. Same narrator. Different version every time.

A pinch of masala. A touch more next time. And a bit more...

Voila! The dish gets better and better. Mostly true. Some figments of imagination. A lil bit of rambling. This that and everything.

But whats better than entertaining the same people with the same story multiple times? Or even boring them for that matter? Spinning a 'shabdon ka jaal' has its own fun. Stories recounted over and over again bring back memories and mostly fun ones. There is a rush to the head like no other. A high that is difficult to match. An escape that eases away all morbid thoughts.

The Shah of Blah is back! So till more Blah Blah Blah...

P.S. My advice to all those who are deliberating reading Rushdie or stopped reading him halfway through Midnight's Children, start with Haroun And The Sea Of Stories and let the Shah of Blah charm you into an unparalleled world.