When Asha Parekh Came Home

At times one simply has to assume the role of 'the big bad evil uncle' who snarls at his nephew warning him of dire consequences if he dare comes within 2 feet radius of the new pet puppy Selfish. All because kids from age 0 to 10 just cannot handle little puppies, despite all the instructions and training on puppy handling methodology that one may impart to them.

In such cases the nephew sulks till the cows come home, frets sullenly, and at worst bawls inconsolably everytime evil uncle snarls after spotting him almost jumping on the puppy's delicate back.

To put bawling nephew at ease, guilty uncle takes him on a walk and does the mistake of passing by a local pet shop. After spotting it in a cage bawling nephew has now his heart set on a Parrot. A parrot for God's sake

To cut a long story short, after a lot of deliberations and family dinner discussions, we finally got a pet parrot for him three days back, to pacify sulky nephew and the home has become a MAD HOUSE now.

It squawks like a possessed one, we have to cover its head with a towel to make the bird from hell shut up. That she sounds exactly like my all time favorite actress Asha Parekh, makes life even more noisy.

Wait a minute, I finally got a name for her, after rejecting all those routine names like 'Mithu' and 'Polly'... now her name has to be Asha Parekh! Wow.