April fool’s day has ended and as usual the ‘Betal’ (Some ghostly character in Indian mythology) of our duties has clung on to our backs reminding us to be The wise King ‘Vikramaditya’ (Literally the son of valor). They too have this seemingly eternal affair (Like we have with our work) in which The Betal tells a story to King Vikramaditya and he has to listen to it carefully only to answer a moral question in the end. If he answers correctly then this routine will continue and if he doesn't answer correctly in spite of knowing it then he will be killed. Great deal! Who buys this s*** these days? But its mythology hence anything can happen. Also Vikramaditya was so wise that he knew all the correct answers. Kudos! He should have gone to ‘KBC’ (Kaun Banega Crorepati) ;)

Anyways, we would definitely won the KBC had the questions based on morality. After all we all have not just mastered the art of judging people but have a Doctorate in the subject of morality. Don’t agree with me? Please comment your views below. :)

Our affair with these duties (we call life) is not eternal (even if it seem like). But let’s see what the story is for today. Since you have come so far reading it, I take the honor of being that ghost ‘Betal’ (read ‘out of sync’) to narrate you a story with a question in the end and you answer wisely. Deal? To read it or not, choice is yours.

In the Mortal land, lived the most intelligent people of their time. They thought they were modern and learned than the previous generations. They revolted against the injustice and questioned the age old practices that made no sense in the contemporary world and build structures to make life easy and entertaining. But there was a mad man among them. Who never went to study in university or worked for money and had no interest in getting married and having children. Worst of all, he had no interest in politics or cricket! Believe me there can be someone like that. He made no allegations on the policies of government or cursed the team for losing the world cup. What an a**! I mean apathetic person! One would have definitely ignored him had he not been such a nuisance to the common man. Yes he was a nuisance in spite of being harmless. He asked questions! Stupid questions actually. Like ‘Why are we here?’ and ‘What if we die without living?’ and so on. Crap! We all know why we all are here. To get jobs and have a better live so that we can give a better future to our children. Meanwhile we are aware citizens who are well informed and act like one. And this guy even asked why we need information and proclaimed to be in search of knowledge. This mad man was looking for Truth. What can you know about the truth in this mortal land without knowing the scandals going around you? But this mad man thought we were immortals and can’t see ourselves until we knew the truth. He must be blind! For everyone but him could see themselves as Male, Female, Upper cast, Lower cast, Black, white and what not. So he thought he should close his eyes since anyway he was so blind and what a miracle! He remained like that for days and months. God knows for how long and when he finally opened his eyes, he saw a queue of people worshiping him!

End of the story. 
What questions? There are no questions. 

If you can find the right questions, ask them to yourselves.

Also tell me if you like this 'Neo Betal' so that it can keep coming to cling on to your back.

Thank you for reading.