?Yesterday?, said Boss, ?I was dancing with friends at a nice pub in Delhi named after Ireland. It is very strange, not to mention very costly, but?it would appear that even the Irish are apparently playing bhangra music now, and if you ask for 1970s? rock, then the DJ throws on All Good Boys Put Your Hands in the Air from Om Shanti Om.? I immediately shelved all plans of getting the staff to wear the red-and-black shirt that Shah Rukh pulled off in the movie.
But Boss was cross. It seems?a young lady grabbed him and dragged him to the floor, which was great, it made his day. Later, he realised that the same young lady had also grabbed his wife and dragged her to the floor, too, where they were making a night of it. On the floor. Vertically and horizontally, too.?Fine, gay abandon and all that, luckily?they still had most of?their clothes on. Just about. The strobe lights revealed more about his wife than many years of marriage had, he thought.
Women dancing in nightclubs nowadays all think they are Helen. Or Janet Jackson. It is a sign of economic progress, I am told, women doing their thing. Salsa is better practised with a broom inside a locked room, is his opinion. And if you are old, and young people make you feel light-headed by dancing very close, then keep your hand on your wallet please. It?s the same with evolving economies?if the young and sexy make a play, then take care. Hike?interest rates.?But it didn?t matter, eventually the old lady and Boss drove home together.
Which is what life is about. Rajiv Gandhi could dance with?Piraprabhakaran and then send troops to get him, but?Modi is in a jam for doing the same with Sohrabuddin. Eventually, all will pose for photographs together outside the Big Round Building on Raisina.
Which brings me to the question of the week. The famous lady columnist from Mumbai, did she see Om Shanti Om? And what did she think when dancing up close and personal, about how her husband?s previous wife died? Can?t tell day from night sometimes in this new world order. But I wish they would play Fleetwood Mac and Jefferson Starship, sometimes. No way women can dance with other women to their music.
