Status Updates From The Mammaries of the Welfar...

"Shri Makkad’s recollections of thirty-five years spent in the service of the Police State were what enthralled Agastya. For, as he joked all the time to whoever was listening, for the life of him, in his eight years of service, he hadn’t been able to distinguish between the Police State and the Welfare State. There wasn’t any difference between the two, was there?"

"Tetracycline is difficult to come by in Madna as well. Overnight, its dealers and retailers have made it as rare a commodity as statesmanship and probity in public life."

"My expectations’re always being thrown haywire by inflation and the new economic policy. Eight years ago. I’d more or less settled on marrying a Kelvinator fridge, a Videocon colour TV with remote and a Maruti 800 Deluxe car, red, with a.c. and stereo. How naive I was! A noble savage, a rough diamond.... "