Pritam's Blog
Go To Pakistan? Sure!
“What do you do in your cellphone all day? I don’t think Pallabi is as jobless as you are… You chat with other girls, don’t you? You are 25 and you have a girlfriend… Don’t you think it’s high time you took life seriously? Also you should be loyal to Pallabi”, my mom said.
She has always thought of me as a womanizer and believes that it is because of this I am still jobless. She thinks that I was so busy with girls in my life that I forgot everything else, including my studies and career. That engineering was not meant for me is something she never understands. Also she has no idea how shy I feel in front of girls. All she knows is that I had been into two other relationships within a span of six months before I met Pallabi. And she thinks that that’s what I did all my life.
Now I don’t even try to give any explanation to her. So I kept quiet and continued with what I was doing in my cellphone - searching jobs. But she didn’t stop…
“You know, Mr. X’s son is doing his PhD in the USA. And Mrs. Y’s kids,both of them are working in Scotland…”
I uttered a non committal hummm…
“And here you are wasting all your time chatting with girls who doesn’t give a damn about your future…”
I kept the cellphone aside and looked at her. But then the cellphone vibrated. A notification from one of the news apps. So I took it again… Another statement from another dumb ass… “Those who do not do Surya Namaskar have no right to live in India…”
My mom got irritated, “See, you are not even paying any attention… I AM TALKING…”. She yelled…
“I AM LISTENING…”
“And what good is it doing? Forget the USA or the UK, you can’t even go to Bangladesh and Pakistan if you don’t take life seriously …”
“Come on, maa… I had been to Bangladesh once when I was a kid. The border is just six kilometers sway from here. And the BSFs were not so strict then… As for Pakistan, I can go there anytime I want… The Government will send me there… I just need your permission…”
“What do you mean?”
“I hate Modi,I eat beef and I give a damn to your Surya Namaskar. I fulfill all the criteria to to go to Pakistan, that too on government’s expenses… And Pakistani girls are soooo beautiful…”
She left…