Warning – This is a shitty article so read it at your own risk.
Meghna: Hi Laila. What are you doing?
Laila: Hey Meghna. There you are. I was waiting for you.
I am doing my yoga exercises. This is known as the full
squat in yoga. I am 40 years old now. I can’t believe that once upon a time I was doing
this so easily. Now I can’t sit even halfway down. Sadhguruji says one
must do it every morning for a minute or two.
Meghna: Oh yes I am so familiar with this pose. It is
etched in my memory forever. I have seen a whole crowd doing this pose out in the open
fields each day for over a decade.
Laila: Where? Which Yoga Course? And they do it in the
open?
Meghna: Yes. When I used to travel to college which was
at Sion in Mumbai. I had to pass Dharavi slum area. So you see so many of them doing
this pose. Many a times there would be traffic. So my bus or rickshaw would be
standing still for 5 minutes. I observed, they would just sit there in this
pose for 5 minutes and then it would come out.
Laila: Yuck. Yuck. You are ugly. Why are you telling me all
these dirty details.
Meghna: Ha, Ha, What is dirty. We are all made of shit and
we have to throw our shit out every day, otherwise we will stink.
Laila: My God, what is happened to the prim and proper Meghna. Lets change the topic. What would you like
to drink?
Meghna: Since we are on it, why not try the drink our former Prime Minister
Morarji Desai used to have often?
Laila: Meghna stop it. I’ll get you some orange juice. Hey
and you made me forget why I called you. I bought a new flat! My first own flat!
It is on this same road. My big news got covered under your shitty talks.
Mehgna: Oh very sorry. That’s great news. Wow, your own flat. A big, big
congratulations. Lets go and see the flat.
Laila: Yes, lets go.
Mehgna: Wow. The flat is cute. Nice and cosy. And you have
already started some renovations.
Laila: Yes it is a very old flat. Maybe more than 50 years
old. A senior couple owned it. Now they have moved to their children’s place
and they decided to sell it. I would often meet them during my evening walks. I
had told them I was looking to buy a place. So I was the first one they informed
and they sold it to me at a decent price.
Mehgna: That’s so nice of them. So what is this work you are
doing here? What are they breaking and making? What was there earlier?
Laila: Oh that was the Indian style toilet. There were two
toilets. One Indian and one western style. The house interiors have not been touched for
over 50 years.
Mehgna: So what are you doing with the Indian toilet?
Laila: What else?
Breaking it and converting it to western style toilet. Who uses the Indian style
toilet nowadays?
Meghna: The full squat. You could have done the practice
inside the toilet. The shit would come out nice and smooth.
Laila: Oh my Meghna…. We
are back to our shit.