"I agree"

I remember this conversation...err...ya..conversation....that I had with one of my friend long back. He is one of those, who always has a dissenting opinion on everything. Well, I am not pointing fingers at him and judging him. But...but.....try telling him this: "Hey look at that black crow man..isnt it so ugly?"
He will quickly retort: "How can you say the crow is ugly man. Do you think it is ugly because it is black? Or just because it cries out in a shrill voice? Or is it because its nest look like a dustbin on a tree?..Or is it because.. "
You have to say: "The crow is extraordinarily gorgeous and sexy. Agreed?"
Now, dont get me wrong, ok. I am still not saying he is obstreperous. He is very good fellow. But you know....... he is a little intransigent.

I admit that sometimes I am also part of the problem. I always start with leading questions or sweeping statements which he hates. He invariably feels that I have taken away his right to have his opinion.
Once he had candidly told me "Dont see everything through your own spectacles buddy".
At that time I did what he always did to me. Retaliate "Then, what do you think? Should I see things through YOUR "powerful" spectacles?".

So, we had a conversation one day.
Politics was our favourite topic. We were in the cafetaria and I just happened to read this:
"Madras HC acquits Jayalalitha in disproportionate assets case". It was front page headlines in none other than Hindu (where else can you see such a bland headline? Any guesses what was on TOI? "Kajol becomes mama mia!" Oh. Thats news!).
I began with yet another all encompassing sweeping statement
"All the bloody politicians escape the so called long arms of law. There is no justice in this country".
This was my last but one sentence in that conversation. Well, the other one was my last sentence.
So he began:
"You know what. Our country is far better than our neighbouring Pakistan, Bangladesh or why take some developing countries like Indonesia" (that way you compare anything to a ditch, it looks clean). There is so much corruption and lawlessness.
"You should be fortunate to live in India, where atleast politicians are dragged to the court (and what ? acquitted?). Actually you know what? All these cases on Jaya is a fraud man. That cunning Karunanidhi is trying to finish off Jaya politically. Its just dirty politics man. You dont understand. Actually you should admire, how a women is fighting her way out of the quagmire, when all people around her are trying to finish her off. (the sort of looks that he gave at that moment clearly said that I was one of them....I mean who is trying to push her down into the ditch..I mean the quagmire)"
"She is swimming against the tide in exceptionally dangerous waters man..."
"You know in BhagadvadGeetha there is a shloka (oh ho! here is the worst part. I forgot to mention one of the rare triats of my friend...he has this rare knack to link everything and anything and why even nothing to Bhagadvadgeetha and drone about it endlessly).
He began in full tempo "Bhishma drona thata, jayadratha jala, gandhara neelopala........(which supposedly means Bhishma and Drona are the banks, Jayadratha is the flooding water, Gandhara is something...I forgot...in between there are some more dangerous things which I forgot too....Ashwathama and Vikarna are two deadly crocodiles, Duryodhana is the whirlpool...and such a river was crossed by a boat which was navigated by Krishna)....."
In short, he was comparing Jaya to a swimmer who is supposedly swimming in some river (I bet it should be Kaveri!) which is flooding (come on, kaveri and flooding..hehehe. Well it is possible. If Jaya gets into water..it should cause a flood downstream.)...with all Karunanidhi and his sons being likened to wicked crocodiles, the Madras HC to the whirlpool....and so on.....well I was wondering who was krishna.....I guess it must be Sasikala natarajan..who else?

BhagavadGeetha was always the coup de grace.
I bet, had I said that Jaya was an angel, he would have fished out some other shloka which demonised her.
So, did I tell you it was a conversation? Well it was. I spoke as many as TWO sentences nah?
The last one being, "I agree"