Other Side of the Mirror: Talk about the goldfinger

They have these shows on TV where you get to have dinner with Shah Rukh Khan or Deepika Padukone and there are people in this world for whom such a victory is aspirational, perish the thought. Think of it. What would you talk about? Like man, why do you sell skinfair cream and make people’s lives miserable?
Where was the funny part in Chennai Express, I think my train of thought did not stop at that station.
Me, I want to have coffee with Shobhan Sarkar. All I need is a few minutes for him to have a mini dream for me. I mean if the guy can dream of hundreds of tons of gold under a site and even have the authorities rushing about with little spades then why shouldn’t we join the gold rush.
I am not greedy and I don’t want tons of gold and as for saving the rupee I leave that to Indian Reserve Bank boss Raghuram Rajan seeing as he is just shifted residence you don’t want him upstaged. Funny how he hasn’t said anything about the Unnao digging like, this is wonderful news, now that we have the lord on our side we don’t need Mr. PC Chidambaram or okay, I knew there was a celestial solution, it is all because of my coming, I am the messenger of glad tidings.
So, Shobhs (I can call you Shobhs, right, we’re buddies and all that) dude, how about a little nap, forty winks and a little docu-dream for let’s say ten kilos of the stuff, like I do have a wife and two daughters, it kind of has to go around. You tell me where it is and I’ll dig it up myself, with my bare hands, scrabble, scrabble.
And I am not even picky, I don’t even want the king’s gold, I’ll settle for a lowly courtier of the day who hoarded a bit, you know one of those slinky, sloe eyed fellows who are always engaging in intrigue and doing the dirty, like those chaps you see in the corridors of power, pulling the rug and stuff. Like the common man gold, keep your treasure trove, give me the crumbs, I am okay with that, brother.
But just in case Shobhan Shankar is like old PC and has run dry on fiscal ideas and can’t really go digging for a fourth time (even the Archaeological Survey folks aren’t that dumb or are they?) what I doing is getting Plan B into position. I am trying to trace the descendants of the king Raja Rao Ram Bux and where they are now cos if that dream comes true by some quirk of fate the gold haul does not belong to the ASI or the Indian government but to that royal personage’s kin. What I plan to do is find them and invite them all out for dinner and pick up the bill and make a deal. Odds are they live in abject poverty and no one cares about them and now, before they become celebs let’s find them and sign and seal it. Ha, even finance whiz kid Rajan hasn’t thought of that.
So, if anyone has a dream in which they get to know where the Bux clan live e-mail me and we share the stuff.