"What a dull day it is" Remarked Mudra
"It won't remain so for long"
"Why"
"Don't you remember that Vidi is visiting us "
"Why is she coming ?"
"She is worried about our dwindling readership"
"Phew.."
"Aayiye..aayiye Vidiji..yeh lijiye flowers"
"Wow.. they are so nice.. what's their name Mudra?"
"Bauhinia acuminata"
"Kannada mein isse Mandara Pushpa kehthe hai"
"Oh..." Vidi promptly dropped the bunch on a rickety table.
Shoba took Mudra aside " Mudra you cheapskate... is this the way you please your boss when you want a raise... couldn't you get her some rose at least?"
"What do you take me for? I didn't want to gift Vidi commonplace rose...I wanted to flatter her by gifting her lotus...and pander to her sky high ego by saying- "Mujhe salary dene wali Lakshmi devi ke liya kamal ke phool""
"What stopped you"
"Ab 700 rupaiye ki salary mein how can I buy flowers...so I thought of getting some free of cost... since the flowers I was looking for were Lotus ie, kamal..I trespassed into Kamlesh's garden at 5A.M in the morning hoping to find some Kamal there... kuch nahi mila...isliye I jumped into his neighbour Tupu's compound and plucked these Mandar Pushp..."
"Why did you trespass Mudra?..don't you know that it is a crime? You are lucky that Kamlesh writes at 5A.M so your actions didn't come to his notice..nahi toh humari savings se tumhari zamaanat bhi nahi ho pathi"
"That was a calculated risk...btw ab tak maine socha ki IF pe type kar karke Tupu ke fingers red ho gaye honge...but uske bageeche ko dekhke I realised that she has green fingers... how come Sho?"
"Green-veen kuch nahi...yeh sab uss Hunterrr 303 film ka asar hai...usko dekhne ke baad hi she planted that flowering plant in her Gulshan"
"Matlab"
"Go and watch the movie..sab samajh mein aa jayega...bass Tupu ka naam aur iss flower ka naam yaad rakhna..you will get what I am trying to say"
"Ticket ke liye paise nahi hai...gimme some money..."
"Toh Vidi se pooch na...the 700 rupees she gives us every month is not sufficient to cover my house rent."
Kaun hai woh... kaun hai woh...Vidi began singing a song from Ishq Vishq
Mudra and Sho looked towards the door.
A tall, fair and lissome woman stood at the door...she was impeccably dressed
Mudra rushed to her with the flowers she had got for Vidi
"Yeh lijiye Mallikaji...yeh flowers aapke white kurte se match karenge"
"How do you know my name" Mallika was shocked.."and what flowers are these?"
"Every sophisticated resident of Lucknow has heard of you...Mallikaji...aapki beauty or grace ke charche sabki zubaan pe hai... and these flowers are Bauhinia acuminata...mandar pushp"
"Mujhe yeh pushp nahi Ashu chahiye"
Mallika was now distinctly comfortable...no it wasn't the chair which was threatening to give away under her feather light weight...
Two pairs of eyes were gazing intently at her...ahem...
Vidi was admiring the beautiful Aligarh wala phool-patti ka kaam on her dupatta and Mudra was trying to identify the chikankari stitches on the yoke of her kurta... Ulta bakhiya...jaal..phanda..keel kangan...(Mudra mumbled inaudibly...but Mallika mistook her iraade"
"Jo kaam Ashu ne 12 saal se nahi kiya..these 2 shameless women are doing it...eeks..my bad luck..if only Ashu was so interested...but these women seem to be greater criminals than the people they write about..it is not for nothing that their tabloid is called "crimes of India""
Shobha observed Mallika's unease and poked the duo...they came back to their senses.
"Kahiye Mallikaji...hum kya kar sakte hai apke liye"
"I want to give a matrimonial ad in your tabloid"
"Matrimonial ad in our tabloid" Sho was shocked
"Yes...my only target audience is Ashu...and Ashu doesn't subscribe to any newspaper..so giving ad in any mainstream newspaper is useless...Hiraman kaka reads your tabloid regularly..so only ads in it stand a chance of being noticed by him"
"Hamari kushnaseebi hai yeh..tell us what you want to be published?"
Excuse the typos...
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