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‘Stop stepping on the mopped area; I am bloody tired of you’. Meera Yelled. She continued, ‘Your dad does not help me expect to transfer some money at the beginning of the month, and he thinks as if he is Rahul Gandhi who wants to put democracy in place’. Chirant (10th Grade) was preparing for the 10th CBSE exam by stepping into the house from the second- floor house at 6.15 AM in the morning with his math book, which he finds uncrackable and hates. Suddenly, he realises he has already stepped on a wet floor and looks at her mother, who was looking like a goddess with a sword ready to slice. Her un-groomed hair are on the sweating forehead, and with her looks piercing through her coloured hairs, she sees Chirant and yells, ‘I have no hopes for you; you are a loser’. Chirant suddenly reacts, ‘Stop yelling at me! Math is not everything. I don’t need to learn math; AI will help me when I grow up and take a job’, he continues. ‘I just need to know how and where to use AI. Who asked you to mop while we were around? Can’t you do it when we go to school? He ignores the wet floor and gets into his room.
Just opposite his room, another 4-legged member, Kāḷa (a German Shepherd Dog), sitting on a sofa with its raised ears, was looking at them. He was looking as if he would be targeted by Meera next!
Prashanth walks in and says, ‘What a beautiful morning, and you guys are fighting’. Even before Prashanth finishes, Meera says, ‘Stop your political statements. Because of you, your kids have a lot of choices. We were never like that; we had discipline at home. My mom used to shout and slap us when we made mistakes’.
‘Wait, wait, Meera, what did I do? What wrong did Chirant do? He has to get ready for school, and he has to use his bathroom. What else can he do other than walk on the mopped area?’ Prashanth wakes up fully. The dog jumps at him and gestures to Prashanth to take him for a walk. Prashanth continues, ‘Why are you bringing Rahul Gandhi here, Meera? Meera says, ‘I don’t like Congress, and I get a point to hurt you only through these statements’. ‘But why are you hurting me?’ Prashanth.
‘You give big lectures to people on politics, democracy, unity, integrity, etc. You have failed as a husband in all respects. I don’t care whether you are the CTO of a company or not; all three of you (Prashanth, Chirant, and Chirag) are MCPs’. Meera points her sharp eyes at Prashanth with a resting hand on her weisen. ‘Was this the root cause of your getting upset, Meera? Do you know it’s 6.30 AM and we have neighbors? Do you understand that you are screaming? says
Prashanth. Meera raises her voice. ‘Yes, when you spoke at my home with my parents yesterday against the BJP, you were raising your voice to promote Congress. Wasn’t that a breach of contract? You kept on the counter arguing with them, poor fellows. Who are you to change their beliefs?
They like Modi; it is their wish. If you don’t like Hinduism, you don’t follow it. Who do you preach all about Hinduism?’
Prashanth, with a surprised look, said, ‘What? Did that make you mad? I was just trying to help them understand Hinduism vs. Hinduism. I was trying to be rational and scientific and tell how political parties are exploiting people. I was cautioning them against propaganda and to validate messages on social media’.
Just then, Chirag (6th grade), the younger brother of Chirant, walks in and says, It’s already 7.15 AM. Chirant lets go; he screams! He turns towards Prashanth. Appa, what is the difference between ‘AI’ and a normal I?
Prashanth said with a smiling face, ‘AI is like all the Sadhus and Sants with good and bad knowledge, both with their unevaluated experiences. Whereas ‘I’ is like knowledge to solve a problem that is felt by common people with experience and feelings! Meers screams, Why are you bringing ‘Sadhus’ and ‘Sants’ here?
This is what makes everyone annoyed, says Meera. She continues, ‘Chirag, don’t be like your brother and you, Dad’.
Prashanth makes it clear: ‘I am not joking; today the public follows Sadhus and Sants; tomorrow people shall listen to AI’. Politics has already entered the kitchen and bed room. People think Sadhus and Sants are ultimate; they have already stopped
thinking about the use of AI, which makes people not think further.
During all this, Kāḷa was waiting to get his turn. He reminds Prashanth that he has to go out for a walk with a cute, curious, tilted-up look.
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