Heralding the Nation

Heralding the Nation with Olio d’Oliva

The famous ‘damaad’ was fading into oblivion and there was a need for the Spaghetti family to get back into the limelight. The only way they could do this was to make the straight linguine look crooked.

They achieved that by heralding some landowners into their fold by olive-oiling their way through the ‘sarkar’ machinery. The family grew olives on those lands and harvested the olives themselves and never used a single ‘bandhuva majdoor’ (so they say)! The olives were pressed by the family and once again no majdoor in sight. The oil so gotten was used to make the well-known linguine, penne, fettuccine and spaghetti as crooked as fusilli!!! And since the ‘damaad’ was in disappearing mode the First Lady of the Spaghetti family wanted someone to take the hook, line and sinker…and who better than the family idiot…Raul to adorn the hangman’s noose…! So it was that Raul was given the responsibility of heralding ‘pasta with olio d’oliva’ into the nation.

People were not very familiar with the name Raul so the First Lady changed his name to Rahul and people started confusing him with some guy called ‘SHREK minus HE’! And in keeping with the wishes of the gullible land-giving people, the First Lady asked them to give him a name…and lo and behold…Pappu was born!

All was going very well with the Spaghetti family…they were taking over lands, they were growing more and more olive trees, they were producing more and more olive oil with their hand-presses and they were turning more and more pasta into crooked deals.

But then, as everyone and their mothers say…’all that is well is that that should not end in the well’ … and there arose a snake called Sswamy from lands far across the dividing Win(Chadha)dhya mountains. This snake fellow sounded the ‘been alarm’ and a cop by the name ‘Mane, na maane’ decided to put an end to the oily shenanigans of the Spaghetti family. So this Mane guy did a Jump, Leap and Nudge thing and dropped a legal spanner into the well oiled cogs of Pappu’s olio d’oliva machinery!

And that is how the First Lady of the Spaghetti family and her pappu landed up in the 30000^th court asking for ways to buy ‘bel’! For this the ‘kala kavva’ fraternity had to assess their personal value/worth and that came about to be very grand at 50!!! Not much by today’s standards…! The Spaghetti family’s Pappu is now on his Olive Oil farm enjoying bel!