The Perfect Pass One day when I was in office with a Doctor friend, one of the local politicians (LP from now on) belonging to the ruling party came to my office. He was not an MLA, but one who held a party position and also a post in one of the umpteen positions created to place ‘prominent’ and ‘loyal’ party workers. After the customary salutations, as he sat down I could sense in his body language that today he was a man on a mission. There was a distinct lack of warmth in his smile. My mind rewinded to the last encounter I had had with him in which I had categorically told him my inability to issue a gun license to one of his many sychophants. “Gun license?”, I asked in an inquisitive tone. He shook his head and told me that he had brought along with him a delegation to discuss a very serious matter. The ‘delegation’ was waiting outside and I would have to resolve their problem “positively”. Now ‘delegation’ and ‘positively’ are two terms which need to expla...
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