Please tell me if this rings a bell in your mind. Your grandmother was frying a fish when a hairy arm came in through the window and snatched away the fish directly from the sizzling pan. Coincidentally, it not only happened with my own grandmother, but my friend’s grandmother, her friend’s grandmother and I am sure with many other grandmothers from all over Bangladesh. Forgive me for doing this to you, but your grandmother, the icon of benevolence in your life, the person who taught you that lying is a sin, has continuously lied to you with the hope that you’d be able to forgive her someday. For all those who are severely heartbroken and planning to binge on chocolates, please wait! There’s also a second explanation. Back in the day, it was a norm for the ladies to wait for the men to finish their meal before they could start their own. Which might have seemed cute but that doesn’t mean that the ladies never got hungry. So imagine that you are extremely hungry and a freshly cooked fish is staring at you. Would you wait for everyone to finish eating the best parts or finish it yourself and then accuse the hairy arm for your misdeeds? I guess you have figured out the right answer. However, the only problem with this theory is the simplicity of the excuse. A - Where is the freaking fish? B - The hairy arm took it. A- Which hairy arm? B- I don’t know. It could be your uncle Jamaal, or anyone else for that matter. All that I know is that it was a hairy arm. Let me tell you another story. One morning the local Imam woke up earlier than the usual Faz’r time and the moment he stepped inside the mosque this huge hand appeared out of nowhere and slapped him so hard that he fell down and lost consciousness. And then when he regained sense, he could not remember anything and suffered from high fever the next few days. As some of you may have guessed it right, this also happened with my grandmother’s local Imam, my friend’s grandmother’s local Imam, her friend’s grandmother’s local Imam and the local Imams of many Bangladeshi villages. Now I am not totally dismissing the possibility that it could also be a lie, but what if it wasn’t? In which case, we are forced to believe in the possibility that the guy was slapped by Jinn for disrupting their procedure. And then there’s the second option. He was just calling in sick. I mean we have all had those days when everything seems gloomy and dull. You don’t feel like talking to anyone. Or you just simply want to break the monotony in life. And this guy is no different. So the only way out for him was to resort to the mighty hand. And now that I look back, it would be great to know if this hand was hairy as well.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 16:33:34 +0000
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