(July 05, 10pm)

DUKE's DEVILRY

Season I, Webisode II

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This Webplay is a work of fiction; any resemblance to anybody dead or alive is co-incidental, and is deeply regretted!

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Okay.. I need to be honest.. on my first encounter with this Evil Duke, I hadn't found him disagreeable.. although the bandit, I vouch, looked absolute thug (imposter)..

In fact I got little sceptical about my college-mate cum colleague (let's call her Ms Oppressed), who had relentlessly called me up while I hadn't joined.. and given lurid accounts of the Duke's DEVILRY!

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How silly of me, I now reprove myself...

what do I do... Deception is always beautifully enamelled.. and the Duke's a classic example!

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Anyways, he showed his colors rather soon..and im glad he did..

Hidden enemy is powerful enemy, after all!

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And yes, my character in the play is called "A"..

and A stands for anonymous, aint it?

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So one fine evening, he pats me on the shoulder...and upon my turning back, shoots: "When are you resigning?"

Im telling you, for a moment I couldnt reconcile..and had it not been for Ms O's earlier warnings, I wouldnt be able to reconcile at all.. Humour was useless defence.. the duke obviously lacked the class to either acknowledge it or accommodate it..

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In fact he got abusive...and then *CJ appeared like phantom from the ashes... and was lambasted at.. and lambasted is such a trifle expression, I tell you...

He presented the college as though it were the alma mater of the Nazis... "big daddy's sons...pompous.. uncivil... haughty.. narcissistic.. empty vessels... debauch.. " and what not..

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"Arre maa behen hi keh diya hota... time to save hota!" I thought to myself, while the crowd there laughed and giggled and clapped!

He got encouraged.. I remember that blatant exercise that followed.. He raised his right hand and pronounced "I hate *CJ.. and listen we are a big gang out here!"

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Anyway, I obviously got accustomed to not replying, while the moron kept pressing me for my resignation date ... Ms O's case was still more unfortunate.. the Duke kept inquiring of her why werent she working in her home town..

"Swollen head, jaha mila waha kar rahi hoon..."

I would decipher Ms O's silence..but the duke wouldnt!

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And then...believe me he actually said this... "I know, you girls behave like saints in front of your parents..and behind the back you do everything..and thats exactly what takes you to far off places like this..."

("You do everything" will be uttered the loudest..and with the most ignoble smile... and with every other demeanour that would goad you to read **x.. btw the lines)..

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It's still a mystery why Ms Opressed didnt give him a taste of her sandals...

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Anyway... it was the forth or fifth day... this gentleman... lets call him Buddha hoga tera Baap (obviously in corollary to his colourful antics that suited neither his age nor his stature)..

he asks me whether I was a bachelor or not.. and before I could reply.. the duke bombarded, "Well we already know he's a bachelor, so the question should be whether he'd been cohabitating or not?"

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And that wasnt the lone one.. First he kept insisting I should stop finding myself a house as the top man of the organisation (who had provided me hotel stay, as per the organisation's norms) was so CLOSE to me...and that I should rather press upon him to extend the privilege round the year and pay the bills for me..

And the top man's first name..and the phrase "so close to you" were told so effectively and loudly that everybody would hear it and also believe it!

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I really regret why did i convince him that the top man wasnt so close, after all.. Would you like to know why?

Because...now he had another excuse why I shouldnt find myself a house..

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"Become a live-in with Ms O!"

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Perhaps that was the only moment in life I was dumbfounded.. and I was so ashamed actually that I actually dint tell Ms O (who had her day off) about it at all... The Duke helped anyway..

When I meet Ms O, next of next day (as the next day was my off), she grumbles with fury: This *astard was telling me yesterday, "Why dont you take "A" Home?"

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Next Webisode

Thursday 10pm

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(July 05, 10:37am)

It is my faith in the Goddess, that i should still be hopeful..and strive to survive.. and take time out to battle the wolf in the evil duke..and expose him.. not to garner sympathy..

but to let you know how ugly work-place hiccups could turn..to inform you..to aware you..

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When i wake up in the morning, it's such a different world.. there're so many jungles of things to sort..

KD, mom's rakhi brother's son, was telling me...if he were my place. he'd have lost his peace..perished..

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Just met the LIC advisor..he paid a visit to my place.. we have discussed how to get the duplicate sureties issued, and claim the money.. and also prevent the one which was maturing, from getting usurped..like the 75k cheque was usurped last year..

i told him i cud handle the latter thing..

"get the first one done.."

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And between it, im having depressions again.. i knew i would.. once it was time again to leave home..

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I knew the cure though..i shud hire a very comfortable stay at Del... high rise apartment... good furnitures.. curtains... mom's pictures all around... beaming her affection from behind the splendid frames..

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But how do i do it?

im totally dismayed..

why should this ever happen to me?????

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(July 04, 3:44pm)

It was a cold January afternoon...but abounding in sunshine, and unusually joyful.. I was in the terrace that joined the chambers inside our cottage house..

Off from college, mumma joined the maid..

without a moment's break.....

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I pounced upon the new course-books she had brought.. Std I began next week, but the wait sprawled out in eras...

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The Gulmohar was my fav..so far I hadn't had mine.. only seen cousin and bro have theirs... with a child's harmless envy..

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The first chapter looked enticing..a frail, long man with this doggy hovering around.. children like doggies, don't they?

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I could read English, but not understand it then.. so maa was called out... she sneaked from kitchen.. with turmeric in hands.. and turning the pages in rapid gesture..with the edge of her fingers, so as to not stain it..she read out and explained..!

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Jesus's kindness prevailing upon a jungle beast!

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Do they still have the same chapter for Std I?

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(July 04, 3:25pm)

My depression is coming back...and with the speed of a marauding army.. the timing couldn't be worse...Im joining work on 20th.... if i am, at all..

You would read a defeatist in the lines..I wish if you could only read at all...

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"You seem so far away, though you're standin' near...

You made me feel alive, but something died I fear!"

(Mamma Mia)

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(July 04, 11:04am)

Never had so many audience so shortly..

After yesterday's 48 in 3 hours, I get 19 more from US.. and 6 from Malaysia too...

for webisode 1...

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(July 04, 2:05am)

My first webisode is a super hit.... some 48 people read it...and im actually awake checking the stats every minute...and interestingly all are from India..barring this person from Malaysia..

Hmmm...48 pageviews in 3 and half hours.. good enough..thank you everybody.. love you.. when i write my novel, will that too be well-received?

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(July 03, 10pm)

DUKE's DEVILRY

Season I, Webisode I

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This Webplay is a work of fiction; any resemblance to anybody dead or alive is co-incidental, and is deeply regretted!

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Okay, let me begin the tale with how they laughed.. little gestures speak volumes about your personality after all....and particularly, it's laughter that often describes the heart it rolls out from..

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So you all must be remembering Rahul Mahajan's grotosque laughter, right? people anyway remember two things always- one which overwhelms them, and also the one which nauseates them...

My US readers (cant ignore, when there have been more than 700 pageviews from there) can type "Rahul Dulhaniya le Jayega" on youtube, and watch any one of the episodes randomly..he guffawed indiscriminately anyway..

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Okay, what you need to do is put that into a crazy vibrator... ghen he he..ghnehe..gheh he he.. gnehhhehheee gheenh he he he... gheeh gheh gheheheh he he....and thats how he laughed..the Evil Duke..

and at the drop of a hat.. at the sexual jokes that were hurled...in his wanton attacks on *CJ...and its students..and teachers..and staffs.. and attendants..and campus.. and classrooms.. and boards.. and dusters.. and projectors.. and library.. and swimming pools (and even though we hadnt one!)...

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Talking about the bandit... his was like, as though he had been remembering some mms clip in leisure... the one where the leading lady's towel had slipped... and then explode into shake-ur-booty type... gasping irresistibly for more!

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Next Webisode,

Tuesday 10pm

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Thanks for the read,

stay tuned!

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