You can’t open or break them

ఇద్దరు వ్యక్తులు కలిసినప్పుడు మూడోవ్యక్తి గురించి చర్చించుకోవడం సహజమే! ఆ పరోక్ష వ్యక్తి వ్యక్తిత్వం, వ్యవహారశైలి ఆధారంగా ఆ చర్చ కొనసాగుతుంది. అనిల్‌, కుమార్‌ల సంభాషణలో రామూ ప్రస్తావన వచ్చింది. తాను పట్టిన కుందేలుకు మూడేకాళ్లు అని వాదించే బాపతు రాము.

ఇద్దరు వ్యక్తులు కలిసినప్పుడు మూడోవ్యక్తి గురించి చర్చించుకోవడం సహజమే!
ఆ పరోక్ష వ్యక్తి వ్యక్తిత్వం, వ్యవహారశైలి ఆధారంగా ఆ చర్చ కొనసాగుతుంది. అనిల్‌, కుమార్‌ల సంభాషణలో రామూ ప్రస్తావన వచ్చింది. తాను పట్టిన కుందేలుకు మూడేకాళ్లు అని వాదించే బాపతు రాము.పిడివాదానికి కేరాఫ్‌గా ఉన్న అతగాణ్ని ఈ ఇద్దరు మిత్రులూ తూర్పారబట్టినంత పనిచేశారు. ఈ క్రమంలో వాళ్లు చేసిన ప్రయోగాలు.. ఇలాంటి వ్యక్తుల ప్రస్తావన వచ్చినప్పుడు వాడాల్సిన పదాలను, ఉపయోగించాల్సిన పద్ధతిని బోధించాయి. ఎందుకు ఆలస్యం నేర్చేసుకుందాం..
Anil: Flat-earth featherheads!

Kumar:
Opinionated oddballs!

Anil: I don’t like to converse with Ramu. He’s so disgusting.
Kumar: How? Why do you say so?

Anil: He has crazy thoughts and no amount of explanation or persuasion changes them.
Kumar: Yes. I know a fellow like him. He has fixed ideas, often baseless, fallacious ones, and he’ll not change them.

Anil: So, you too have come across a stupid like Ramu!
Kumar: He says all old movies are worthless, tasteless and colorless. He believes all new movies are worthy, excellent and full of message.

Anil: See, what Ramu says. In his opinion, there’re no places in India for sight-seeing. One has to go either to Switzerland or France!
Kumar: Unbending fellows, they have put locks to their minds. You can’t open or break them.

Anil: Flat-earth featherheads!
Kumar: Opinionated oddballs!

Anil: Dogmatic dunderheads!
Kumar: Adamantine asses!

Anil: Inflexible ignoramuses!
Kumar: Stubborn scatterbrains!

Anil: They form an opinion, fix it tight in their mind, and guard it at any cost.
Kumar: Yes. They would defend themselves and defy all logic.

Anil: I hope you know that famous story of The King and the Archer.
Kumar: No, I don’t. Will you please tell me the story?

Anil: The king once went hunting. He saw arrows stuck in trees.
Kumar: Arrows?

Anil: Yes. Stuck at the centre of small circles painted on trees.
Kumar: Did someone shoot the arrows at the centre of the circles?

Anil: Exactly. The king counted the trees with arrows stuck in tiny circles. Fifty five in all! ‘What a great archer in my kingdom,’ the king wondered.
Kumar: Who was the marksman?

Anil: The king bade his soldiers to bring the expert archer to him.
Kumar: To reward and honour him? Such a lucky fellow, the archer.

Anil: As the king’s soldiers entered the village, the young boys ran into their huts in fear.
Kumar: Fear?

Anil: ‘The king, his majesty, commands that the archer see him,’ heralded the soldiers.
Kumar: Did the archer appear?

Anil: None appeared. Then an old man in the village shouted, ‘Gajibo, come out and meet the king!’ And he showed the soldiers where the young man was.
Kumar: Was he the archer?

Anil: Yes. The king took him to his court, made him walk on a red carpet. He arranged an adventurous feat. He made a young girl stand at a distance, with an orange on her head. The archer was to hit it. The king had made up his mind to make the best archer the commander of his army.
Kumar: How fortunate Gajibo is!

Anil: Wait! Gajibo was shivering in his shoes. He was not worth his salt. He had just shot the arrows, then drew circles around them!

I will take
a different road

Mahesh: Congrats on completing your Ph. D!
Anil: Hearty thanks to you.
Mahesh: What next? Will you join a multinational?
Anil: No.
Mahesh: Will you join a university?
Anil: No. I will take a different road.
Mahesh: May I know the road?
Anil: Abroad!
Mahesh: America? Australia?
Anil:I will migrate to Madagascar.

సూర్యారావు ఎం.వి
వివేకానంద ఇన్‌స్టిట్యూట్‌ ఆఫ్‌ లాంగ్వేజెస్‌,
రామకృష్ణ మఠం.