Still at Large

Fresh look at the photograph on Arora's mobile

Haw! So many moles on the back???

Relaxing the rules of the Pehchaan Kaun guessing game (see July 23 post) has not reduced, but added to the confusion all around. Those who had recently put in their ‘guesses’ are having second thoughts now. And today, in a renewed burst of enthusiasm, everyone wanted to take a fresh look at the photograph on the blog and as expected, ended up pointing fingers at one another.
Clearly, the suspect is still at large.
Since the only sure-shot give-away is a mole in the person's back, Srichand Arora (who returned today after a brief bout of fever) announced that tomorrow, all men must come topless to the Garden. The ladies sniggered, but Tara Chand had a ready retort: “As you say, Arora-sah’b. Why topless only, we will take everything off for your sake. You have only to order us. Nobody can dare disobey you!”
Apart from the missing mole, what seems to be clouding everyone’s perception is the possibility of the photograph being tampered with on the computer. One member even asked if it was possible to employ “computer magic” to regress in time and turn her present-day picture into the way she looked 30 years ago. “Otherwise how did this photo get into the blog?” she argued innocently. She had apparently been influenced by the trick imagery in some of our Sunday pics and believes that “everything is possible with a computer at making ullus of the public”.
Attention turned to Bose Babu – more so, because he has not exposed his back yet (see post of July 17). Teja Singh politely asked Bhaswati Bose if there was really a mole on her husband’s back. She dismissed the suggestion, adding that her husband had a round face whereas the photograph showed a longish face. “That is no argument,” Tara Chand chipped in again. “Before marriage he had a long face and you have beaten him so badly that it has become round now.”
By then Shekhawat had got hold of Arora, the only other person who has not bared his back so far. As everyone crowded around, he lifted the rear of Arora's T-shirt to reveal a forest of moles of all shapes and sizes across the back. “Is it my fault that I have so many moles all over my body?” Arora protested. And here we have been trying hard to find a single mole all these days!
Harish Wadhwa:
Arre, Arre... Arora-ji, public mein Shekhawat-ji yeh kya kar rahe hain? Is Bhaswati-ji amused at some tattoo on your back instead of that deceptive mole? Wise men told us that never 'lose your shirt'. But all of us seem to have lost ours for this blessed Pehchaan Kaun contest!