Madhushaalaa

 Madhushaalaa

"अंधों में काना राजा"

I bagged easily,  a few prizes during the mandatory celebration of Hindi_day in the Coimbatore regional office of my bank.

The Hindi officer was too happy to hear a very funny incident related to this book, and at once decided to ‘gift’ it to me, saying "it is lying UNTOUCHED in our mini_library. You will preserve it better 👍"

Incident:

While I was at Amravati,  a new university was going to come up. "Vacancies" in the Hindi department are sure. 

A close friend of mine decided to 'qualify' for a 'job' in that university.  M.A. in Hindi 😥.

He decided to submit the dissertation on this book. All the 'good' professors declined to 'touch' this book if it was for an academic qualification. Tough.

This friend got a humble professor who said "only my signature as a guide/mentor to fill the blanks. Remember 👍"

That friend surprised me by saying "anyway I am going to slog alone by myself 😜. Why don't you give me company?"

"Just company" was okay by me, I thought.

But fate had something else in store for us.

Within a day, he said "help me with the deeper philosophical sense in the verses(he was asking for a vital organ_trandplant, the 'heart' of the poem 😓)"

I said "on one condition 🙏...   I am not a born_Hindi guy. Tough words. You give me the translated version in the 'local' Hindi that I can understand.  I will give you the deeper philosophical sense in my_Hindi. You re_translate it into literature_wala_Hindi and 'build' your dissertation stuff.

Two days of experience. He decided to gulp 2 pegs of desi daroo and then join me on a hilltop garden( around a huge water tank, catering drinking water to that town).... because, my words were escaping his mind, 😂. ( Chattering incessantly, his mind was engaged into….not listening quietly 🙏. Alcohol quietens, in a ‘measured’ dosage👍)

Daily 10 pm to 2 am... 50 days, winter nights of less than 5°C temperature. 😂

My reward was going to be 'put to use' only 10 years later, during my spiritual bijness ( programs I got enrolled into). The concepts got preserved like an engraved writing in my memory 🙏

Thanks to Shri Bachhan senior 🙏. He 'might' have even blessed me from somewhere high up there, above the skies😥🙏🙏🙏.

A unique experience of the 'book going through me'( usually, 'we' go through a book🙏. But I didn't 😜).

Oh yes….He got his degree and also the job (I was told, because I got transferred down to Cbe by then).

Unexpectedly yours

psn(17 Oct, 2026)