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"BUT WE'RE ALL GAY!!"

Recently I read this article in DT about whether Delhi pubs letting only couples in was 'Anti-Gay'? This reminds me of one hell of an anecdote from my first year at college. Couple of our seniors wanted to paardy.. N as the plan went around everyone hopped in and by 8 in the evening it was 13 guys game for a guys binge out. Mr Bacchan 'shaved off' to make that smooth impression on the pubbing crowd. Everyone put on their cool t's and sneakers.. N all jumped into the cab.

Yeah cab.. Its actually a mini-van.. the size of a big ambulance that we're used to calling RTVs or 'Hari Bhari' here in Delhi. Those were the times when we had made it a habit to invade the porches of big five stars in these rickety vehicles, creating a gaudy contrast with the Mercs, Audis and the Porsches in the background, much to the horror of the doormen and the front office staff.

But that never bothered us one bit. What was to happen that night was rather humiliating.. and super fun in the hind side(No.. stop thinking too much and read on). Thanks to my previous time we went out.. with Sachin Ball n Daadi, Bikes n Barells was the first choice.. If only we could get in. When we asked the cabby to drive us to Residency Towers he frowned.. saying we were wasting out money and that we would enjoy Saravana Bhavan(referred to as SB henceforth) much more. When we laughed off at this suggestion, little did we know that he'll be laughing at us all night long after what was gonna follow. We reached Bikes in out characteristic style.. our driver sane enough to notice the frowns of the valet guys. Me, Sachin and dear friends Shashi and Robbin happily entered and started ordering as well without realizing that smooth Mr. Bacchan, Shiv along with Jeenie had fell into their own trap. Shaving made them look too young, and the doorman insisted on IDs. As much as we act like who gives a damn.. ;) In the end its One for all and all for one you know.. So out we went, the driver must've thought, and rightly so.. the boys've been thrown out. Only, we were in no mood to listen to him n go to SB. So we said next stop.. Speed! a few more Kms down Annaa Salai. We had great plans, of groups of guys who look old enough going in with each of those who were stopped at Bikes. But another form of sexual discrimination awaited us at Speed. And those were the days when Junkyard Groove lead vocalist Ameet used to be on the staff at speed. Shashi bhai n co walking a little ahead of us were stopped.. The dooreman telling them with an attempted sweet smile.. "Saturday sir, we have entry only for couples." And to that the post modern thinker in Shashi had a brilliant snappy spark of a response. "But we're all Gay!!" He declared, looking back at this scattered gang of 13. They say that everyone at the entrance, was rolling over laughing. As far as me and a few others were concerned, we turned back almost instantly and rushed into to the cab like models who've just had a wardrobe malfunction rushing into the wings, red faced inside, but tryin to be cool n confident outside. Well, these days one would say its just something we could simply laugh off. But that's now.. n that was then. Again shamelessly smiling at the driver.. SB seriously looking like a real possibility now. Our last resort was.. StarRock. and after a little quarreling we managed to get it. And the rest as they say, is history.

Couldn't help but remember this night when I read this article in DT. Now I know there'll be many a friend of mine wanting to beat me up for writing this. ;)

As I said, lets all get shameless and vote congress. So hear we are..
Again putting more dough into the hands that never deliver, or should
i say, the hands which have the most consistent record of not
delivering. 'Pranabda, where's the vision?' asked a headline in TOI.
People would have forgotten super procrastinating ways of the
congress, thanks to the nation being spared from a full blown cong
rule, for more that 10 years.. Not setting firm targets is she best
way to keep justify non-performance later on. The BEST way to thank
the electorate and give them exactly what they asked for is to bring
back the glorious days of opaque governance. And this budget puts us
well on our way to those days.. What's more? They justify their
proposed, non-transparent, passive and stagnant governance(simply put,
all the chori they're gonna do in the year to come), by saying that
budgets don't include declaration of policy matters..! Wow.. That's
what you call, "ek to com chori, uspe seena zori!!!"

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