Apan yaana pahilat kaa..

For those who do not know what the title of this post means.. it is "Have you seen this person". And for the one's if it rings a bell, it is one and only dear old programme on DD marathi. A great educational programme from good old days, and know what! it is still in existance. Last saw when they were talking about this guy who they described as...

Name : Pandurang Keshav Dhondiba Dandvate
Color : Wheatish brown
Age : 39 years, 158 days.
Height : 5 feet 9 inches
Build : Medium
Hair : Black
Identification : A mole on his left cheek (it's hairy mind it) (eeks!)
Clothes : Wearing a white shirt and grey trousers
Missing since : 10th june 2006 from 7.30 pm

Reason : Wife wouldn't give him pickles with rice and daal. (psst: she gave it to her neighbours they were out of stock of pickles....to top it all .........he was damn hungry man!)

Anyone who has seen this man contact his wife Mrs Gauri Pandurang Keshav Dhondiba Dandvate, on this number 022-25879365, she's made so much pickle that it'll last for a year ( in their neighbours house too) , and she promises that it'll never be out of stock in both the houses ever again in the future.

It was the most educative programme while i was in school, used to watch it regularly when exams were scheduled , time table was given and all i had to do was to turn on the TV and watch 'Aapna yaana pahilat kaa' and pick up my algebra book, and start calculating the probabilities of Mrs Gauri blah blah..chances of finding her husband Pandurang Keshav Dhondiba Dandvate in a day or probably a week or probably in a fortnight...or probably until my exams get over.

Maybe that's the reason i did well in my marathi exams but scored lowest in algebra, but i still used the same formula in every school exam of mine, until cable TV took over and i slowly forgot about it until, a few days ago when by a turn of events unexplained, i chanced upon another missing person.

And all the things came back to me like a torrential downpour, that's when i realised that even in the most backward and the remotest villages of India i cannot find my missing persons programme but , i can surely see the television beaming images of FTV. Alas! what is going to happen to those missing people, probably they might end up scorching the catwalks of milan and paris , while their wives wait for them at home, making pickles with the hope that they might come back.