INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN.......140

INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN….140
Dr K Prabhakar Rao


(Gandhi, Nehru and Patel are seen walking on a road in Hyderabad at Abids. They are as usual in dress. They try to cross the road at Taj Mahal hotel crossing. They get trapped in traffic. Suddenly many horns start blowing. Entire traffic comes to halt. There is some chaos

Gandhi. ohfo. What happened? Why this commotion

Patel. We tried to crossroad at wrong time.

Auto driver. Aye Buddhe hatt. Bewakoof kainka. Road paar karna nahee aata tho ghar may Bhait. Chal Hut ( hey old man. Idiot, if you do not know how to cross the raod sit at home. Move)

Patel. Bhai. Zara sambhaal ke bolo. Kya Koyee tameeznahee ( Brother, Be careful in your talk. Don’t you have some respect for elders?)

Auto driver. Kya bolata hai re. Bahut bolne lagaa hai ( What are you saying? You are talking much. Kaat ke phek daalunga ( I shall cut and throw you out )

Nehru. Ohfo. Patel. Let us go from here. This guy appears to be a lunatic.

(Auto driver gets down from the vehicle and starts fighting with Patel. Patel catches the driver and hammers him black and blue. He is dumped in the auto while more commotion sets up. Some policemen arrive soon. Traffic is fully jammed)

Policeman. What happened? Who beat this driver? Where is he?

Patel. I hammered him. He was threatening us. I had to defend myself.

Policeman. You have to come to police station

Gandhi. What for?

Police man. For beating this driver so much, you have to answer. If this guy dies who is responsible?

Patel. Where were you when this driver was on us and threatening like a goonda?

Police man. We have hundred and ten jobs. We can not be every where. By the by who are you guys? You appear to be some anti social and trouble creator. You must come to the road side. Traffic has to clear up.

Patel. That is fine.

( The policemen are busy clearing traffic and Gandhi and his friends slowly slip away from there and quickly cross over and disappear from the place.they land up in a park that is close by. They sit on some benches.a street dog arrives with a news paper in its mouth.It goes to Gandhi)

Dog. Bow wow.. bow wow. I am Mothi the Khoonkar dog of this area. Do you have some thing to eat.

Patel. Kutta baba. We just came here. We have nothing. Can I look at the paper?

Dog. Sure. I like you. You are straight forward. You also did not hit me. Otherwise I would have bitten you guys. I have the world record for biting people. Till day I have bitten 25000 guys in this city that includes some IAS , IPS officers and politicians including MLA.

Nehru. Oh God. You are very great dog. But how did you manage to bite such senior officers and politicians?.

Dog. Bow wow.. wow Bow.. I always wait at places where they go for a walk in the morning. They become easy targets.

Patel. You are great.I am happy that you did not bite us.


Dog Ok see you , Bow wow..

( The dog scampers away. Patel picks up the news paper and reads the titles)

Patel. Yeah… yeah..


Gandhi. Patel. What is there in the paper?

Patel. Bapu. It is printed that Rosiah the CM is badly indisposed with viral fever

Nehru. Poor guy. He is old too.

Gandhi. I feel sorry for him. Poor man is in great tension with ministers digging graves behind him.

Patel. That is very usual in politics.

Gandhi. But this man is highly troubled. The guy Jagan YSRs son is causing him great stress with his odaarpu yaatra ( consollingtrips)

Patel These are all tricks of the trade. But nothing will happen to Rosiah jagan wibeleft alone

Nehru. I was told that Rosiah is really not well. H could not accompany PM Manmohan singh to Tirupathi to clap around.

Patel. There are many guys for that. Governor has already gone with PM.Hee..heee

Gandhi. funny part is that Geeth Reddy the minister for this and that has gone to Delhi suddenly to meet high command

Nehru. Lot of rumors are going around. Rosaih is still there. There are speculations that geeth Radd could be the successor to Rosiah if he is unable to assume duties again

Gandhi. what can go wrong?

Patel Any thing. After all he is very old. The poor old man is still alive and kicking in bed and some going around with rumors. These jokers have no shame.

Gandhi. Some guys must be preparing ground for the lady minister.

Patel. It could be true.

Nehru. The minister has clarified that all these are false news. Rosiah is still strong and soon would assume duties.

Patel. That will be a disappointment to his enemies.

Nehru. All these are like jackals at the grave

Gandhi. Please do not be that harsh. After all every one has an ambition.

( They suddenly see police men approaching the park )

Gandhi. Hope these police men are not the same one.

Patel. I can not say. Anyhow it is better we hide.

( the trio quickly walk away from that place and stand behind thick bushes. The policemen see here and there and go back )

Gandhi. These are the same guys who spoke to us in traffic. They came searching for us.

Patel. True. We escaped.

Gandhi. we are not truthful. We were hiding. I feel bad.

Patel. Bapu. You have to be practical in these things. It is better we escaped from them.

Gandhi. I feel like seeing Mr. Rosiah.

Nehru. Who will allow us?

Gandhi. How sad! There was a time when thousands waited to see me. Now no onecares for me. Eee..eee

Patel Bapu. Please relax. Our days are over. Aslong as we are something all will run. Once the position is over none cares. This is the life. Same will happen to Rosaih. If he looses the seat of CM who will care for him/ all the guys who are dancing around him will refuse to recognize him. This is the way of world.

Gandhi. true..eee…eeee…aaa… ( Wipes his tears)

Patel. Bapu. Shall we go now. It is better we do not move out for next three days on roads. Police men may catch us. They will forget us soon.

Gandhi. OK. Let us go.

( the trio walk away from the rear gate and disappear)

CURTAIN FALLS