Saturday, February 21, 2015
Self-Obit: Saon Gupta (1980 CE – 2700 BCE) Retreated into a Time Warp
If you’ve ever chanced upon it, there’s this seedy
back-alley tucked between 221B Parliament Street and Platform No. 3 at the
Central Secretariat Metro Station. Now here’s the insider’s tip that Ms. Gupta
was in on—courtesy her pathetic peddler of psychedelic dreams—it led off to a
wormhole housed within a ramshackle haveli of yore…
Built as it was during the same decade they put up poor Dara
Shikoh’s library by the Gate that possibly led to Kashmeer—it’s been overgrown
by weeds ever since, as cobwebbed and decrepit as the tomes in the latter. From
the last ecstasy-induced glimpse he’d had of her, she had disappeared around
the bend that led to a crumbling mansion within the said seedy
back-whathaveyou.
They say she was smitten by the great ‘oiti-hash-ik’ bug ever since she could place her Bimbisara before
her Ajatashatru, and her Jane Seymour after her Anne Boleyn. Mayhap she was put
to good use by Clive’s rascally bunch at Plassey or was carried away by the
whimsy of Tansen’s Megh Malhar…no one’s really sure.
A Harappan seal was unearthed the other day, announcing that she had steadily made her way upstream the mighty Indus; but then no one can rightly decipher these thingamajigs yet you see...
Published at The Delhi Wala on March 2015:
http://www.thedelhiwalla.com/2015/03/06/our-self-written-obituaries-saon-gupta-1980-ce-2700-bce-near-parliament-street/
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