Revenge of the Tea boy

A delicious mouthwatering prospect

He offered me in a cake,

A pastry to be specific,

Of some exotic make.

It had chocolate cream,

Around the corners,

It had cherry in the mid,

Devour me it screamed,

And devour I did.

Though there were some points

in this saga,

That looked a bit sordid,

Did the pastry tasted sour,

May be a little rancid?

But it was too little,

And may be too late,

I had cleared all of it,

That he gave me on the plate.

Now as I run to and fro,

From bed to bathroom

I have ample time

to ponder

What had gone wrong.

In the morning

In front of a vendor

I had scolded the tea boy

What in the name of tea you make

You idiot!

But he didn’t reply!

So that was it,

I had zeroed it on,

It was a ploy,

The delicious looking pastry,

was just a decoy

It was a sweet revenge,

Revenge of the tea boy !

Mogambo Kush Hua

Watching the movies from 90s, I was amazed at the wonderful screen presence of eternal baddie,Mr. Amrish Puri.  Whether it be a Mogambo (Mr. India), a Shera (Loha), a Bhairo Baba (Nagina), he was terrific and excellent in all of them.  With the wacko hairdo, attire, and diction, he would instill fear in us (jab mein chota tha).  His never say die attitude would give him the strength to crawl out of that bottomless pit and stab our hero from behind.  His drive, passion, and dedication to get the job done were, sorry to say, not shared by his subordinates and thereby in the end, he would have to bow down before the hero.  Although, if you look at it seriously, it was not his failure alone, it was the failure of his organization, or the syndicate which he was running.....

Apparently, this staple diet of Bollywood movies in the late 90s, has many parallels in the real world.....there are many Mogambos out there, who are running one man show.  The CEO is the final word in all the matters and all the decisions.  Take out the CEO from the equation and there is no organization.

Come to think of it, if you have watched Mr. India, you must be knowing Mogambo's Assistant Managers.....M/s Daga and Teja.  Had Daga and Teja been more proactive, Mr. India could have been stopped in his tracks, but the problem with Mogambo like people is that they don't want proactive people under them for the fear that they may one day be upstaged by these people.  Thus sycophancy rules and in the end, Mr. India comes up triumphant....

  
On a serious note, Mogambo's plans were never really defeated, as he wanted to feed people of India substandard ration, he wanted people to fight in the name of religion, caste, he wanted people fragmented and not united, and the list is quite long and sadly, I would have to tick most of the boxes....