The Whines of India

The reporter from the much reviled newsrag called me..
Rag: Hi, this is about the play you are doing...
Me: Yes?
Rag: Our policy is not to write about theatre...
Me: Sorry?
Rag: We don't write about theatre in our national newspaper. But we write about celebrities and what they do in their spare time...
Me: Oh? ...What was it you wanted?
Rag: Well I wanted to know if you had any celebrities acting in it...
Me: Celebrities?
Rag: You know...Page 3 crowd...any actors, designers...socialites...interesting people...people who party...who I can write about...
Me: No, we don't have any celebrities acting in our play...why do you ask?
Rag (Disappointed): Well if you had a celebrity on your play, then I could interview him/her and then mention among other things that he is also doing this play of yours...
Me: Oh we have no celebrity or anybody remotely famous, by your standards... All we have are about 120 odd actors...
Rag: 120?!! (That number has now increased to 160)
Me: Yes...it's the biggest production in Bangalore at the moment.
Rag: But no celebrities...
Me: These are regular people..right from school children to teachers to working professionals...
Rag: Yawn
Me: We do such a big production like this every year...no other theatre group anywhere else does something remotely like this...consistently...
Rag (bored) : Who is directing this anyway?
Me: _________
Rag: Who is that?
Me: Well I am talking about people who have devoted their lives to theatre...they are not exactly famous but they've been doing theatre for a living..
Rag: Ya...okay good bye...
(End of conversation)

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