9/9/13
The Chawla family is told that Sampath is in a guava tree and won't come down. The whole town starts creating new drama and gossip about this incident. The family tries to get Sampath come down the tree by calling the bazaar clinic's doctor, Dr. Banerjee. The doctor hoists himself into the tree with his sthethoscope and pronounces that Sampath is indeed crazy. Then the family tries a bunch of different remedies to get Sampath to come down but none of that work. Finally, they visit a holy man who says that arranging a marriage for Sampath will be the best cure.
The Chawlas can only find a scrawny looking girl for Sampath. The girl arrives with her family on the bus, which is full of pilgrims singing. The bride, her family, and the pilgrims arrive at the tree. While Sampath has romantic fantasies about beautiful women, he is horrified by the ugly girl, as the pilgrims lift her into the tree in her billowing sari. When she tries to touch Sampath's feet in devotion, he yells, and she falls out of the tree. He wants to shout to the people to leave him alone, but instead, he calls out to Mr. Singh, whose letters he has read in the post office. He asks if his jewelry is still hidden beneath the tulsi plant? Then he asks Mrs. Chopra about the lump in her throat. Sampath goes on revealing the secrets he has read in letters, and the people assume he has divine powers. Soon a newspaper article proclaims him to be a holy man in a tree.
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