The gods are not really happy today, it is raining for 2 consecutive days, and most of us wished it rained heavily in Dixon too. My boss’ mantra, if they are working in Dixon, we are also working here. So we can’t just stop the work today and enjoy the wrath of Varuna devata.
The office is only about 10 minutes drive from here, commutation in Bangalore has improved a lot after the metro took over. This work was started only few months back and I don’t know how the managed to complete it so fast, India has grown a lot. A lot of changes has occurred very soon, I don’t see most of the politician who were there 2 years back, good for the nation. Irony lies in the fact that the youth leader lost his teenage 22 years back.Our dream of being a super power is still quite a distance. I am still unaware of whats happening in the world around. This job is taking its toll on me, I should read more of the newspaper.
I am going to meet Saket after 7 years. He was one of my college mates. We did our final year project together. It was a nice project, a wall climbing robot, after so much of struggle we did manage to complete a robot which literally climbed a wall. As usual with any college as it happens, the credit went to the professors and it was added as a research project in the college brochure and was officially done by the professors. I still have the physical robot with me and they have the blueprint of it. Saket was at onsite for the last 6 years. He somehow managed to get into functional stream in the company and moved on, it was an intelligent move for him. He is not the hard working guy who will park his ass on a steel mesh and stare at an electron gun directly.
He got married 2 years back, to his old time girl friend. Their love story is one with a lot of patience. I mean how can you love a girl for 12 years and still marry her. It just goes beyond my understanding. May be I am a little eccentric for this society, and the society am in never accepts eccentric people. The gay couple who got married last week got killed by the parents of one of the guy. And they call this honor killing, come on, now how honorable is it to kill a human. I still remember the time when the article 377 was proposed it is just like 3 years back and this movie Dostana made a great impact on the thinking of our generations. Before those times, we only heard of happy gay people and never actually saw one and I never realized that this law will bring out so many gay marriages in this country.
The rain has somehow come down, I should start, Saket said he would meet me at NIMHANS.
(takes the car out)
Love of my life Audi a6, if there is one thing which I can live without getting bored of is my car, for everything else, a new one is preferred. (Looking out of the car window at a fast food shop) People really like that shit? The burger I got last week, it tasted funny, almost like hamam soap sandwiched between 2 breads with a little salt and mayonnaise sauce. God save the country, what happened to the taste buds of these people, why are they so crazy about food like this. In fact I think the soap companies can make better fast foods, the soap I got last week had almonds in it. The research scientist in a white coat would have discovered that savitha who ate almonds during pregnancy gave birth to a child who was 2 tone fairer, somehow biased to not see the fact that her husband and the neighbour shafiq bhai both are 4 tone fairer than the lady. We just blindly believe this companies, and expect them to have done enough research on the subject. Someone need to get to the factsheet and question these guys or they will always fool the public.
Here comes NIMHANS, one of the most prestigious institutions in the country for medical research. I don’t know what is wrong with Saket, he must be having some problem, should check out, when he called me the other day he sounded worried or more like tensed. I felt that he wanted to share something but somehow does not have the courage to discuss that with me.
This campus is quite huge, for an asylum. They used to conduct very good surveys on alcohol, and drugs. They found that wine in moderation is good for health and that was a great motivation for people like me.
(Walks into the corridor)
Where is Saket, he said, he will be in a blue shirt and a deep blue tie. I should admit that I am very bad with colors, I never understood the difference between deep blue and dark blue. Oh there is a guy with a blue shirt and a tie, well that could be considered a deep blue tie, but that guy cannot be Saket, he is way too old. He should have given some more specific identification. Blue shirt and blue tie is a normal wear. Ohh, wait, Why is that old man coming here, did he get offended by my staring at him? Well I dint had any intention... Oh my god, is he really interested in me? After this article 377 became a law,I feel more insecure, it was common for girls to get stalked but now even guys are stalked at. Hey but his features look much like saket. Oh my ghosh, it is saket, he has become so old. Something is surely wrong with him. He reminds me of the movie PAA, where Amitabh Bachan ages faster than he should and ends up dying in his teenage.
Me: Hi Saket, how are you man?
Saket: HI kamal, I am fine. How about you?
Me: U don’t look fine yaar, look at you... as if you are 60 years old.
Saket: I am .
Me: What?
Saket: Nothing lets go to the doctor, he needs to talk.
Me: yeah ofcourse, anything for a friend.
I don’t know if this disease only ages the body, hope his married life is not affected, I mean who will stay with a guy who looks like 60 at the age of 28? I think Sangeetha was not ready to go out with him and why would she, obviously she can’t say that this guy who looks older than her father is her husband to anyone. Thats why he needed me to talk to the doctor. Sometimes these things make me question the very existence of god, I know Saket very well. He is a guy who would not do anything bad to anyone, why should he have a condition like this.
(both enter the doc’s room)
Doctor: Hi Kamal, please take your seat.
Saket should be pretty close to the doctor, he has told him about my coming.
Me: Hi doctor.
Doctor: Sit down Saket.
Saket: Its alright doctor, you can talk to kamal, Ill wait outside.
Me: Hey, I think you should be here.
Doctor: No thats fine, let him be outside.
Me: ok
Doctor: So kamal, how was the day?
Me: It was fine doc. Can we just come to the point? What is wrong with Saket?
Doctor: Nothing.
Me: What you mean nothing? He looks like he is 60, while he is only around 28 or 29.
Doctor: Kamal, not only Saket is 60, you are also about the same age.
Me: ha ha ha. That was a nice try, but doc you should hone up ur sense of humor.
Doctor: Look Kamal, you know which year this is?
Me: ya 2012. I know many people are waiting for the armagedon this year.
Doctor: No Kamal, this is 2043. Look at the calendar.
(Looks at the digital Calendar on one of the walls)
Me: haa.. its a digital calendar, you would have tampered it, it is pretty simple to change the year ain’t it.
Doc: Why do u think, ill do that?
Me: you must be part of some prank... I have seen a lot of these on just for laughs gags...
DOC: Ok kamal, try to remember, when this digital calendars were introduced.
Me: I don’t know exactly.. see doctor, I have been busy a lot these days so was not able to read the Newspapers.
Doctor: When did u actually read a newspaper last?
Me: I don’t know, few months back..
Doctor: No, thats around 30 years back. Newspapers are obsolete, in the drive to save the planet earth all the paper production was almost stopped 20 years back.
Doctor: Ok, try to remember where is your family and when did you talk to them last.?
Me: I don’t remember.
Doctor: Thats because you have not seen your family for 20 years.
Doctor: See Kamal, in the year 2012, you were obsessed with the idea of apocalypse, and when it did not happen as expected, you went into a shock.
Your brain created a deceptive pattern, where it still awaits the apocalypse, every year on December 21st, your brain resets the clock. Since your subconscious cannot see itself fail, it makes you think that you are still in 2012.
The best way to confirm is try to remember the past. Initially you were under heavy dosage because of which the partition which separates taste sensing part of the brain and smell sensing part is damaged because of which when you taste something you might feel that you are smelling something and when you smell something, you would taste something else at the same time.
This disease is known for a long time, where two different parts of the brain are not properly separated, one function affects the perception of other. There were cases whose image percepting part and taste sensing part of the brain are not properly separated. When you show a image to them, they can simultaneously taste the image literally. In one of the cases, a guy would taste butterscotch at the image of Albert Einstein. And vice versa, when he has a butterscotch, an image of Albert Einstein pops up.
Me: ok.. i get it... that explains why the food tasted funny. That means my tasting part and logical thinking part has overlapped.
Doc: to some extent, yes.
Me: What is the solution?
Doctor: You...
Me:See Kamal, there is no known cure to this.
Doctor: You should convince yourself that there is no apocalypse which is to come.
Me: what if I can’t?
Doctor: This will continue... that means you will always think that you are in 2012.
Me: This still does not explain why I still feel young?
Doctor: When did you see yourself properly see in a mirror?
Me: Don’t remember. Anyways I hate admiring myself in the mirror. I prefer others doing that for me..
Doctor: You know, your subconscious has created patterns which does not allow for you to look long enough in the mirror, and whenever you do look, you get into a negative hallucination, because of which you would not see your old age.
Me:Yes I can remember certain things, the war between India and Pakistan in 2015. Oh my god... I can remember many things. That actually means this is all true.
Doctor: I have prescribed few benzodiazepines class drugs, that would keep you calm, but you have to spend time talking to yourself.
I am sending you e-papers of these missing period of your life, read them, they might help you to convince yourself.
Me: Ok doctor. Will try my best.
Doctor: Tomorrow is the 21st December 2043, you need to be strong and don’t let your subconscious take control of you.
Me: Yeah sure.
Doctor: Call you tomorrow.
(Next day, house in J.P.Nagar, Phone rings)
Me: Hello, Kamal here, how may I help you?
Doctor: Hi Kamal, how you doing now ?
Me: What was wrong with me?
Doctor: Oh... nothing, I was just asking...
Me: Who is this?
Doctor: I am pramod, I was reading your book on Apocalypse- “2012- Humans, do they deserve to survive”
Me: Ohh... how is it? How did you like it?
Doctor: It was very nice. Ok Kamal, will meet up sometime.
Me: Ohh sure. And one more thing doctor, I would prefer dying young in Apocalypse, than dying of old age.
Doctor: ?!?
The office is only about 10 minutes drive from here, commutation in Bangalore has improved a lot after the metro took over. This work was started only few months back and I don’t know how the managed to complete it so fast, India has grown a lot. A lot of changes has occurred very soon, I don’t see most of the politician who were there 2 years back, good for the nation. Irony lies in the fact that the youth leader lost his teenage 22 years back.Our dream of being a super power is still quite a distance. I am still unaware of whats happening in the world around. This job is taking its toll on me, I should read more of the newspaper.
I am going to meet Saket after 7 years. He was one of my college mates. We did our final year project together. It was a nice project, a wall climbing robot, after so much of struggle we did manage to complete a robot which literally climbed a wall. As usual with any college as it happens, the credit went to the professors and it was added as a research project in the college brochure and was officially done by the professors. I still have the physical robot with me and they have the blueprint of it. Saket was at onsite for the last 6 years. He somehow managed to get into functional stream in the company and moved on, it was an intelligent move for him. He is not the hard working guy who will park his ass on a steel mesh and stare at an electron gun directly.
He got married 2 years back, to his old time girl friend. Their love story is one with a lot of patience. I mean how can you love a girl for 12 years and still marry her. It just goes beyond my understanding. May be I am a little eccentric for this society, and the society am in never accepts eccentric people. The gay couple who got married last week got killed by the parents of one of the guy. And they call this honor killing, come on, now how honorable is it to kill a human. I still remember the time when the article 377 was proposed it is just like 3 years back and this movie Dostana made a great impact on the thinking of our generations. Before those times, we only heard of happy gay people and never actually saw one and I never realized that this law will bring out so many gay marriages in this country.
The rain has somehow come down, I should start, Saket said he would meet me at NIMHANS.
(takes the car out)
Love of my life Audi a6, if there is one thing which I can live without getting bored of is my car, for everything else, a new one is preferred. (Looking out of the car window at a fast food shop) People really like that shit? The burger I got last week, it tasted funny, almost like hamam soap sandwiched between 2 breads with a little salt and mayonnaise sauce. God save the country, what happened to the taste buds of these people, why are they so crazy about food like this. In fact I think the soap companies can make better fast foods, the soap I got last week had almonds in it. The research scientist in a white coat would have discovered that savitha who ate almonds during pregnancy gave birth to a child who was 2 tone fairer, somehow biased to not see the fact that her husband and the neighbour shafiq bhai both are 4 tone fairer than the lady. We just blindly believe this companies, and expect them to have done enough research on the subject. Someone need to get to the factsheet and question these guys or they will always fool the public.
Here comes NIMHANS, one of the most prestigious institutions in the country for medical research. I don’t know what is wrong with Saket, he must be having some problem, should check out, when he called me the other day he sounded worried or more like tensed. I felt that he wanted to share something but somehow does not have the courage to discuss that with me.
This campus is quite huge, for an asylum. They used to conduct very good surveys on alcohol, and drugs. They found that wine in moderation is good for health and that was a great motivation for people like me.
(Walks into the corridor)
Where is Saket, he said, he will be in a blue shirt and a deep blue tie. I should admit that I am very bad with colors, I never understood the difference between deep blue and dark blue. Oh there is a guy with a blue shirt and a tie, well that could be considered a deep blue tie, but that guy cannot be Saket, he is way too old. He should have given some more specific identification. Blue shirt and blue tie is a normal wear. Ohh, wait, Why is that old man coming here, did he get offended by my staring at him? Well I dint had any intention... Oh my god, is he really interested in me? After this article 377 became a law,I feel more insecure, it was common for girls to get stalked but now even guys are stalked at. Hey but his features look much like saket. Oh my ghosh, it is saket, he has become so old. Something is surely wrong with him. He reminds me of the movie PAA, where Amitabh Bachan ages faster than he should and ends up dying in his teenage.
Me: Hi Saket, how are you man?
Saket: HI kamal, I am fine. How about you?
Me: U don’t look fine yaar, look at you... as if you are 60 years old.
Saket: I am .
Me: What?
Saket: Nothing lets go to the doctor, he needs to talk.
Me: yeah ofcourse, anything for a friend.
I don’t know if this disease only ages the body, hope his married life is not affected, I mean who will stay with a guy who looks like 60 at the age of 28? I think Sangeetha was not ready to go out with him and why would she, obviously she can’t say that this guy who looks older than her father is her husband to anyone. Thats why he needed me to talk to the doctor. Sometimes these things make me question the very existence of god, I know Saket very well. He is a guy who would not do anything bad to anyone, why should he have a condition like this.
(both enter the doc’s room)
Doctor: Hi Kamal, please take your seat.
Saket should be pretty close to the doctor, he has told him about my coming.
Me: Hi doctor.
Doctor: Sit down Saket.
Saket: Its alright doctor, you can talk to kamal, Ill wait outside.
Me: Hey, I think you should be here.
Doctor: No thats fine, let him be outside.
Me: ok
Doctor: So kamal, how was the day?
Me: It was fine doc. Can we just come to the point? What is wrong with Saket?
Doctor: Nothing.
Me: What you mean nothing? He looks like he is 60, while he is only around 28 or 29.
Doctor: Kamal, not only Saket is 60, you are also about the same age.
Me: ha ha ha. That was a nice try, but doc you should hone up ur sense of humor.
Doctor: Look Kamal, you know which year this is?
Me: ya 2012. I know many people are waiting for the armagedon this year.
Doctor: No Kamal, this is 2043. Look at the calendar.
(Looks at the digital Calendar on one of the walls)
Me: haa.. its a digital calendar, you would have tampered it, it is pretty simple to change the year ain’t it.
Doc: Why do u think, ill do that?
Me: you must be part of some prank... I have seen a lot of these on just for laughs gags...
DOC: Ok kamal, try to remember, when this digital calendars were introduced.
Me: I don’t know exactly.. see doctor, I have been busy a lot these days so was not able to read the Newspapers.
Doctor: When did u actually read a newspaper last?
Me: I don’t know, few months back..
Doctor: No, thats around 30 years back. Newspapers are obsolete, in the drive to save the planet earth all the paper production was almost stopped 20 years back.
Doctor: Ok, try to remember where is your family and when did you talk to them last.?
Me: I don’t remember.
Doctor: Thats because you have not seen your family for 20 years.
Doctor: See Kamal, in the year 2012, you were obsessed with the idea of apocalypse, and when it did not happen as expected, you went into a shock.
Your brain created a deceptive pattern, where it still awaits the apocalypse, every year on December 21st, your brain resets the clock. Since your subconscious cannot see itself fail, it makes you think that you are still in 2012.
The best way to confirm is try to remember the past. Initially you were under heavy dosage because of which the partition which separates taste sensing part of the brain and smell sensing part is damaged because of which when you taste something you might feel that you are smelling something and when you smell something, you would taste something else at the same time.
This disease is known for a long time, where two different parts of the brain are not properly separated, one function affects the perception of other. There were cases whose image percepting part and taste sensing part of the brain are not properly separated. When you show a image to them, they can simultaneously taste the image literally. In one of the cases, a guy would taste butterscotch at the image of Albert Einstein. And vice versa, when he has a butterscotch, an image of Albert Einstein pops up.
Me: ok.. i get it... that explains why the food tasted funny. That means my tasting part and logical thinking part has overlapped.
Doc: to some extent, yes.
Me: What is the solution?
Doctor: You...
Me:See Kamal, there is no known cure to this.
Doctor: You should convince yourself that there is no apocalypse which is to come.
Me: what if I can’t?
Doctor: This will continue... that means you will always think that you are in 2012.
Me: This still does not explain why I still feel young?
Doctor: When did you see yourself properly see in a mirror?
Me: Don’t remember. Anyways I hate admiring myself in the mirror. I prefer others doing that for me..
Doctor: You know, your subconscious has created patterns which does not allow for you to look long enough in the mirror, and whenever you do look, you get into a negative hallucination, because of which you would not see your old age.
Me:Yes I can remember certain things, the war between India and Pakistan in 2015. Oh my god... I can remember many things. That actually means this is all true.
Doctor: I have prescribed few benzodiazepines class drugs, that would keep you calm, but you have to spend time talking to yourself.
I am sending you e-papers of these missing period of your life, read them, they might help you to convince yourself.
Me: Ok doctor. Will try my best.
Doctor: Tomorrow is the 21st December 2043, you need to be strong and don’t let your subconscious take control of you.
Me: Yeah sure.
Doctor: Call you tomorrow.
(Next day, house in J.P.Nagar, Phone rings)
Me: Hello, Kamal here, how may I help you?
Doctor: Hi Kamal, how you doing now ?
Me: What was wrong with me?
Doctor: Oh... nothing, I was just asking...
Me: Who is this?
Doctor: I am pramod, I was reading your book on Apocalypse- “2012- Humans, do they deserve to survive”
Me: Ohh... how is it? How did you like it?
Doctor: It was very nice. Ok Kamal, will meet up sometime.
Me: Ohh sure. And one more thing doctor, I would prefer dying young in Apocalypse, than dying of old age.
Doctor: ?!?
