With a swagger
and a toothpick stuck deep inside his 27th tooth, Rajkumar Hoshiyar walked out
of his bedroom. Nobody these days wore sunglasses to their bed. Rajkumar didn’t
care about nobodies. He lived on his own accord. He feared no one these days.
He was one of the richest men in his workplace and perhaps was the richest
in the neighborhood.
He took a hot
shower and applied a feminine moisturizing cream generously. A bright purple
shirt and a sober orange trouser graced his skeletal frame. He then applied a
loud green hair gel and organized his shoulder length tresses. Sipping up his
lemon tea, Rajkumar introspected and planned. Fiddling with his recent memories
of fortune, Rajkumar tried chalking out his business plan for today. Then
realised he didn’t need any business plans. He never did. He
smiled and looked up at the sky and closed his eyes to feel the incoming heat
of the sun. Then opened them and looked back at the sun with gentle arrogance.
He drifted to
normalcy, back from his trance. Did some hurried neck exercises and walked out
of his palatial residence into the common street. His workplace was nearby and
he didn’t need a vehicle for conveyance, yet.
He walked to his
work camp with piercing envious looks following him. His peers were
clearly mad seeing him all so smug. They were mad at the thought that they
screamed crazy for accumulating wealth whereas Hoshiyar just spoke twice and
money came gently flowing. They made little income compared to the accumulation
of Hoshiyar. But life moves on, they thought. Someday they will have their day.
And they hated the fact that they had to compare themselves with dogs in an old
proverb to justify the fact.
Rajkumar Hoshiyar
was oblivious to the jealousy and greed of his peers because he thought he was
well above all of them and their company made no difference to him. The time
for business was now. That’s all he cared for.
With another one
of his neck exercises, he was ready to announce his presence to the market. He
licked and added some saliva to his lips. And said ‘Pyaaz le lo, Assi rupaay
kilo’.
And he only spoke
twice.
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