Wednesday 28 June 2017

Open Mic Transcripts: The Great Indian Holy Peacock

Pre-Script: Putting-up raw transcripts of open-mic stand-up bits which are so longer relevant. This was performed on 06.06.2017 at some random Cafe in Bombay for the first and last time.

So they say men don’t cry. Which to me sounds fair enough. Real men don’t cry. They probably try to find solutions to the problems they come across. Real peacocks? Apparently, yes!

For those who missed-out an interesting piece of news lately, Justice MC Sharma of Rajasthan High Court recently delivered a 139 page judgment on his last day at work endorsing cow to be declared as our national animal. And later in an interview went ahead telling us that peahens get pregnant by drinking tears of a peacock; that peacocks do not indulge in sex and stay virgin for life. Sounds like the story of my life except that when I cry, no one really gives a sh*t!

But this is not the first time people from judiciary have tried their hands at comedy. The biggest culprit has always been this now former Justice of Supreme Court Mr. Markandey Katju. To quote one of his many ridiculous statements, 90% of the Indians are idiots because they vote on the basis of caste and religion. Which to me actually makes him look like an idiot because 90% of the Indians do not vote at the very first place!

In another recent case, Justice CS Karnan of Calcutta High Court was asked by a bench of Supreme Court to appear before a medical board for, hold yourselves, psychiatric examination. Yeah! That’s how they roll in West Bengal! You know a state is messed-up when its High Court Judge and Chief Minister both need psychiatric help.

And all this is happening in a country with around 30 million pending court cases. And they still manage to get away with around two months of summer, winter and diwali breaks excluding regular public holidays! Not some very great statistics to back-up your sense of humor!

But I don’t think these judges or the people running this country are that stupid. I think they are just playing for the gallery and messing-up with us. When we should really be questioning these people on crony capitalism, falling GDP, inflation, militancy, failing banks and farmer suicides, they are diverting our attention to divisive issues like beef, love-jihad, ghar wapasi, triple talaq and now sex life of peacocks.     

One can imagine these people sitting in secret meetings and going: "Sir, we have proposed AADHAR cards for cows now. But I don’t think people are scandalized enough. We need to do something more."

"Mor?! Let’s give it a shot."

My point, ladies and gentlemen, is that do not fall into this trap. The virginity of peacocks does not deserve our national attention! Virginity of Salman Khan, probably yes!