Symbiosis, def : various degrees of close relationship between organisms of different species, in which at least one organism benefits.
Some time earlier this year, I had gone with a friend to one of mumbai's nondescript restaurants for a quick lunch. We ordered and sat down to wait when I noticed a mouse climbing one of the tables. A huge fuss was made.Words like 'Hygiene' , 'cleanliness' , 'food inspector' , 'legal action', 'shame on you' , 'sorry' , 'reimbursement' were exchanged loudly.
Cut to Chhattisgarh , lunch with a colleague in one of the fanciest restaurants of the place..a mouse casually climbed onto the empty table next to ours and sat there majestically, flashing his moustache at us. I half willingly looked around for the waiter, who smiled sleepily back. I just broke a small piece of food from my plate and gave it to the mouse, no quetions asked.
In this place where a lunch..any lunch at all, is sometimes doubtful, one just learns to exist in harmony with brothers of other species.
Thok de!
Presenting..
- Shankster
- Mumbai,Delhi,Various Others, India
- There are 2 kinds of experiences in Life. Those that you enjoy and those that build charecter.
5 comments:
this is what u call life,
and believe me dude, the lessons that u are or will learn here wld far more valuable than ur stint at the b-school....
New aged Pied Piper
Wow yaar, you sarcasm is matching Upamanyu Chatterjee who said in 'English August'....
At communal harmony meet when he looked at Stale Samosa, a voice from it said "Hi, I am cholera, who are you !"
Heha yea bud, thats the Chatterji Im thanking in the 'about me' after sayin Im getting 'hazaar fucked' here :)
Man it was almost like you predicted my life and gave it to me in print..Eerie!!
simple yet hard-hitting. gotta be my fav :)
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