India Parks

40 Years Later - Present Day.

Today I inaugurated my 25000^th India Park which had a Taj Mahal replica inside it. On Raqeeb’s request I have changed the names of a few India Parks to Pakistan Parks. But there is a small difference here. There are no borders. I feel proud and also very weird to write that 80% of US of A is now called India Parks. All Americans prefer to stay there and have also shown keen interest in changing the rest of the area into India Parks. Naresh and Geetanjali are proud parents of 2 kids Sunil and Bharati. One of the names sounds familiar! Isn’t it?

My children Jaideep and Anusha are married to Michelle and Vijay respectively and the couples now run all the India Parks. They have been very good children to me and Madhu. Raqeeb and Zubeen have 3 children, Usmaan, Abdul and Shabana. Raqeeb now stays in Pakistan and we are very much in touch. Sharma, my engineer has constructed a huge house like the Mysore Palace for himself in one of the Parks and is staying happily with his wife and kids. I’ve heard he still uses PHD. And this is me. I’ve decided to buy a house here in Mysore and settle down, I am tired. Madhu and I need to spend some time together, so I’m signing off folks! Thank you!

The whole of SKCE was now in stunned silence. Nobody moved. Slowly Mr Venkat stood up, wiped his tears and started clapping like a kid. Vintage, that was enough. The whole of SKCE erupted. Sunil looked at the scene, smiled and said Jai Hind! It was 51 years back that he had started this journey from SKCE to IIM to India Parks, from Mysore to Koizekode to USA. This was his finale, he was back in the place he belonged to. Dinner was served in the garden in front of the Administrative office alongside a huge projector which had live TV. The news was running and what the weather man said made everybody smile. “Today most of India Parks will be dry and sunny!” Needless to say the whole crowd clapped again. It was time to leave for Sunil. All the goodbyes were said and Sunil was about to get into his chopper when Venkat came running for his last question.

“Sir, what about the rest of your room mates, the 5 Indians?”

Sunil Verma smiled and said “I don’t know about the rest but I’ve heard Abhijeet is now a writer.”