Piku Page #8

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No no...whole night

we were just awake...

Brother...you must be very tired?

I am fine...

Get the luggage.

Nothing's changed here...

And whose idea was

it to do this road journey?

Goshh! you need

a heart to do that...

Ranamcomem Kaku

he's Rana Chouclhry...

Greetings...Mr Choudhry...

please sit...

Hey Binod, he's not Bengali...

He's the owner of l-limachal

Tourist Taxi stand...

...his driver didn't

come so he drove us...

Oh...that means Delhi people aren't

as bad as we think them to be here...

Please don't mind...

Not her fault...well that is the

perception about Delhi people...

So Piku?

Get that chair

in...I'll have to leave...

Where?

Where...you can't be going

back to Delhi right now...

...go tomorrow morning...

No its fine...really...I'll leave...

No one asked you.

Budhan...

Yes.

Where have you kept my luggage?

In that room down there.

No...keep it up

stairs...in that room.

"Where did that chair come from?"

That's grand pa's commode...

...don't touch it...haven't

cleaned it with an ANTISEPTIC yet.

The whole feel of this house has

changed...because brother's here.

Yeah but Piku...

...don't know what

she has grown up to be...

...first she stays with

her aunt Chhobi, plus single.

Living in Delhi...

Hello...yes Nobendu...right...

He has not told

me anything, why?

Ok, ok.

What happened?

Nobendu is saying...brother

has come to fix the house deal...

I am not surprised.

Must've done sitting in Delhi...

It can't be true...

I warned you...but

you shouted at me...

...now see for yourself...

...you respect him so much

but for him we are nobody.

You're over reacting...I

don't think its anything to worry...

How's Dr Shrivastava?

He will miss you.

I don't think so...

...Dad just forces

him to come everyday...

I never force anybody, never.

There...Mr. Choudhary...join us.

Pass me some pepper Piku...

I had no idea that your bowel

problem had become so chronic?

I don't think it's in our family...

Of course it is!

Our father had it!

- But how would you remember...

...you were busy in fooling around

with life...fun...women.. all that.

Were the elders just watching

the show if he was fooling around?

When sister in law and almost decided

to get him married to her sister Chhobi,

...then what was the

need to come and see me?

Next day I had my M.Com exam,

final paper but no one cared!

Mom just expressed

it to grandma that...

...its fun if two brother's

are married to two sisters...

...but its not that she

didn't love you when you came...

You were not even born

then Piku, how would you know?

All I know is when mom

was in the hospital...she said...

...whenever I would get married,

you'll do the rituals on her behalf...

...not aunt Chhobi.

After mom, you are

like a mother to me.

Why dig the old graves? She's come here

after so many years. But what did I say...

No no, don't stop

her, she's right...

This frustration

is not right...it causes...

Negativity.

Righ negativity and

that causes indigestion and then...

Constipation?

Amazing! How do you connect

everything with the stomach?

Coz everything is

connected to the stomach!

A person's emotion

depends on his motion...

This is all your nonsense

theory in your own head...

...it's not that your

constipated all the time?

Why're you getting angry with me?

I am not getting angry...

...but you don't discuss

anything other than this Dad...

...there's a limit.

Just relax brother...

I am relaxed.

And you don't talk much!

Do you know Piku, for how

long your uncle sits on the pot?

What do you mean?

Father had

constipation...brother has...

...and you also have the same

its in the family... - No brother...

Yes father had...

No...

You had constipation.

Why are you looking at me?

Uncle you know about

the water shortage in Delhi...

...still he wants a bucket

full of water...

...because he's not satisfied

with that jet spray.

No that's because that jet has a sharp

flow of water, it hurts me here.

And in winters he

demands hot water...

...now tell me who needs hot

vvater to clean his back side?

You must know that every third person

in America has the same problem...

...in fact constipation

is their biggest health issue...

Really?

- Of course!

Still they live care free...

...looking at their faces can you ever

tell what's going on inside them?

Who cares? They're the

biggest economy in the world

No no I care.

Now for any normal person,

normal like, for example me...

How can you call yourself

normal so confidently?

Hear me out...for any normal person,

a breakfast...

...a lunch and a dinner...

...these three meals is all that is needed

to smoothly do the job next morning...

...but they...on an average

go once in three days!

All through the day

they just eat junk...

...collecting inside

as if a fixed deposit...

...and then one day they

go...and well...do it...

Chchiil!

No no seriously, don't laugh.

And your condition isn't that bad...

...do one thing...just chew

your food like this like a cow.

Next day you're bound

to have a clear motion...

Cow?

Mr. Banerjee have you ever heard a

cow or a buffalo ever getting constipated...

...or doing a hard cow dung...or

loose...think about it...

Tell me.

Right, his logic is right.

Are you sure you are not a Bengali?

Sir not everything is

a copyright by Bengalis...

You didn't know this?

No.

There was a railing there?

I think yeah.

That was a new

construction, needs repair.

Will get it done...

You're family is

quite interesting...

just because everyone laughed,

don't think everyone is impressed...

...we are very critical people...

Oh I know, some people just

can't like anyone, it's ok.

You think I am like that?

You are...but...can't

blame you for it...

...actually after a certain

age one becomes like that...

...difficult to please.

Then don't try to 'please'.

Ok.

Do you know Piku...

...Binod was in secondary when our

father started building this house.

And same year brother

also got a job in ITC...

...37, Virginia house,

CHOWRANGEE LANE...

You remember?

Earlier we just had ground floor...

..when they shifted here,

that's when this 1st floor was made...

OK listen, my head...

Can we go out somewhere?

Yeah, I'll just give

dad his medicines...

...the centre of my circumference...

...I feel is this

place, this courtyard.

Then after retirement why

did you settle down in Delhi?

You knew your brother doesn't

earn as much as you did...

...to maintain this house.

Can you Keep quiet?

Why should I?

No no, carry on, she's right.

A woman as educated as her should

not be stopped from speaking her mind...

...but tell me Moni...

...in 1979 who wrote that job application

for you in that BATA company?

I had my connections there, still

you didn't take up that job, why?

Because then my salary

would've been more than his...

That's exactly what

I call a low IQ thinking...

...you yourself are responsible

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