Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Chapter 4

14/9/13

English: Literature

Sampath bicycles off to work in the morning traffic of Shahkot. Sampath drops Pinky off so she can get on the public bus. She removes her hair pin to have it as a weapon against men who might hassle her. The post office is a very gloomy building where Sampath crawls under the barbed wire fence to get in. He stops to hear the flirting between two workers in the postal office, Mr. Gupta and Miss Jyostsna, attracted by Jyostsna's red toe nails. She describes an incident that happened with the Cinema Monkey which ripped her clothes and ran off with her peanut cone. Then the two speak about the wedding of the boss' daughter, where they get interrupted by their boss. Later on, Sampath attempts to add up the wedding accounts, but all the bills look alike and his mind gets dizzy. Sampath soon starts zoning out instead of sorting of the letters which is what he's actually suppose to do. At the end of the day, Sampath is yelled at for not finishing his work.