self immolation....Yeah Right!!!

To start with, sorry for the sudden AWOL, many many apologies to my regular readers...all of the two of you , I shall buy you a vada pav some day to compensate.

I have been busy of late, since I dont have a job and I am at home. I invest a lot of my time in watching a lot of TV and read some papers as well. And that takes up a lot of my time , cos a lot seems to be happening in the country. Soooo much news and sooooo many more newsmen/women. So it's completely understandable that some over-worked and underpaid journo skipped the essential bit of investigative journalism when this article was written. ( Which is also completely understandable because all investigative journalists in India are currently in Rahul Mahajan's Jacuzzi trying to recreate the exact course of events of that fateful night.)

However, coming back to the said article in dna, which talks about the tragic incident where a certain Pravin Gopaldas Joshi decides to immolate himself to oppose the screening of the film 'Fanaa' . "Pravin was heard shouting slogans against Aamir Khan when he came out burning from the ladies toilet."

Ok, bhai saab...as tragic as the consequence has been, some questions need to be answered, (1). Why did Pravinji prefer the ladies toilet of Amber Cinema for all acts of self immolation? (2).What makes the Men's loo of Amber cinema so unsuitable for all immolatory activities?(3).And how can we get Dev Anand to make a few Anti-Narmada Dam statements?

From my own personal experience of ladies bathrooms in most Mumbai cinema halls ( not multiplexes), the environment seems to become a tad crowded and hostile during the interval, and if a gentleman were to enter the bathroom there might just be an immolation , but the word "self" would not precede it. There might just be alot worse if he tries to cut the queue. Could this be a possible explanation?

However, what about the Men's bathroom at Amber Cinema? Or does Amber Cinema not have a men's loo at all? (Because as Shakespeare had once said of Indian men , "All the world's a urinal, And all the men are merely pee'ers ". )

But the last question still needs an answer and any one who contributes will get a share of the above mentioned vada pav.