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“Any more strategies? Your midnight one wasn’t very effective, nor the secretive early morning swearing in!”
“I don’t know, but they seem to be beating me nowadays!”
“I noticed!”
“I wonder whether they’ve peeked into my book!”
“What book?”
“The one I use to make my moves! This one!”
“It says, ‘Strategies and Surgical Strikes!’ I thought I coined that phrase?”
“No, I gave it to you from this book!”
“And you’re getting all your ideas from this one book?”
“Yes, after the chapter on Money in Your Bank Account and Surgical Strikes worked, I have grown to rely on it! You know that chapter on Shock and Awe through Demonetization, and Governor at Midnight and also the other on Midnight Presidential Knock were all from this book!”
“Didn’t work though! I’m sure the opposition’s peeked into it!Or maybe..”
“Maybe what?”
“You’ve got an old outdated version, and you need to order the latest. Did you get it through Amazon?”
“I’m not sure there was Amazon when I got the book. Not sure how I got the book!”
“Who’s the author?”
“I’ll check. No, nothing’s written! No name. But there’s a phone number!”
“What are you waiting for? Call that number, tell the author we want a copy of that book. Tell him, we’ll buy all his copies, and keep them here. We don’t want the opposition finding this book, right? Go on call!”
“Hello, I want a copy of the book! What? Oh, the author will call me back? Okay I will wait for the call! Thank you! The author said, he’ll call back!”
“That is very good. Make him an offer. Tell him to come and work for me!”
“Work for you, then what about me?”
“Oh, don’t worry, I do look after my loyal subjects. Maybe a governor’s post, or ambassador of some East European country. Or you may want to go back to our home state?”
“My phone is ringing!”
“Pick it up!”
“Hello! Yes, hello, I want a copy of your book, and my boss asked if you would come and work for him?”
“What is he saying?”
“He’s saying, he will come and meet you! But…”
“What?”
“I think I know that voice!”
“You recognized the voice of the author? Who do you think it is?”
“Sharad Pawar! And…”
“And what? Didn’t he say he would come and work for me?”
“Yes, but only on one condition, that you would be his deputy prime minister..!”
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Many years ago, while doing my undergrad, my professor called me to his room, “With what you write and how you write,” he said, “You will either fail or get an A plus”
“Why fail?” I asked.
“Because if your examiner is one who wants a copy paste answer, you’re finished!” he said.
Luckily my examiner wasn’t such, but the other day looking at the newspapers I found most students had scored over ninety percent, and there was one who'd scored one hundred and one percent!
How?
Our educational system hasfinally become a copy-paste one. There is no creativity! Variety is frowned upon, and either you write verbatim what the text book says or you fail.We are producing a nation of clones and non-thinkers!
In my imagination I calledhome immediately after seeing the 90 percenter results: "Lock my cupboard and hide the keys!"
"Why?" asked the wife, "something you want to hide from me?"
"Just lock it!"
She didn't. "Mummy's looking through every paper in every shelf!" the children screamed as I entered.
"No!" I cried as I rushed in.
"Haven't found anything!" sighed the wife, looking rather disappointed.
"Thank god!" I said as I took a file from the floor and put it back.
"What's that?"
"What's what?"
"That file?"
"Didn't you check it?"
"I did but why the hurry in putting it back? Is there something you don't want me to see?"
"Have I hidden anything from you?"
The wife thought for a moment, "Yes!" she said, "Remember your baby milk bottle your mama sent over after our marriage?"
"Ssshhhh!" I said looking at the kids.
"And that snap in your wallet?"
"That was a pen-pal!" I said, "and I thought you'd forgotten about her?"
"We women never forget! We've got to be on guard all the time, looking after our turf! Now what's in that file you just hid?"
"Nothing," I said defensively.
"Tell us daddy, tell us!" cried both, trying to grab the file.
"Don't!" I yelled.
"Screaming at the poor children? Is it so important?"
"I didn't scream!"
"Please dad, show us your secret!"
"Come on we're family! Show us what you're hiding?" said the wife dangerously.
"Got it ma!" shouted the kids as they grabbed the file and ran out.
"Give it back!" I whispered, and then there was silence in the next room.
The kids came back, not looking at me. "What is it children?"
"Daddy's mark sheet!"
"Ma tell us it's not true!" wailed the elder.
"What isn't true?" asked the wife.
"That our brains aren't from dad’s side of the family. Look how much dad got in high school!"
My wife looked at my old mark sheet then got up quickly.
"Where you going?" I chuckled.
"To hide my marks and lock my cupboard!" she muttered as she slammed her door shut and quickly turned the key..!
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Description: College Board in association with Global Higher Education Alliance institutions is offering financial support to students looking forward to taking admission in Indian universities post class 12, based on the SAT. Also, the program offers full tuition fee scholarship for graduation degree at member institutions.
Eligibility: For SAT fee discount, the applicant must be an Indian resident with an annual family income less than 10L and must be studying in class 11 or 12. To be considered eligible for a full college tuition scholarship, the applicant's family income should be below INR 4L p.a. The student must also perform very well in SAT and must receive an offer of admission from the Global Higher Education Alliance institution.
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