Vikram Vetal in 21st century

King Vikramaditya in the 21st century traded his crown for a turban and like a true democrat, presided over a coalition government comprising of various ghouls, loonies, leftovers and the like.

He was still trying to get on to his throne but being foiled by the sphinx to whom it belonged but who being a sphinx and a foreigner to boot found it quite unwise to stake claim. Being Vikramaditya, he necessarily had to have a Vetal. This worthy, red of hue and with a vegetable's name, clung to his back at every available opportunity, guiding him away from the path of any sort of development that may improve the situation.

If everything was hunky-dory and everyone happy why turn red at all. in a land where everyone else was looking for greenbacks from a far off land, the reds were the only ones who wanted to be in the red forever.

Then one of the veteran ghouls suddenly got a brainwave in his hitherto unused brain. He decided, on his own, that backward was forward and immediately announced a bounty in higher education.

Thus our great backward march begins, may caste remain iron-cast for centuries and vote banks for politicians proliferate on caste lines alone.

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