In chapter 12 Pinky sees the monkeys and again, she starts to
think that these monkeys might have followed her. Aammji knew they were trouble
and Mr Chawla also seem to agree with her.
The monkeys figured out that Sampath was not going to cause
any harm to them, the monkeys were also impressed by the amount of food that
was offered to Sampath. As soon as the offering was made the food was stolen
away by the monkeys, which ruined Mr Chawla’s idea of reselling the
offerings.
All the female devotees had some story to tell, they all
thought that Sampath charmed the monkeys. The spy tried to explain the devotees
how these monkeys knew the way to interact with humans but no one was going to
listen to him.
Whenever Pinky saw the monkeys it reminded her of the Hungry
Hop Boy. Pinky had suddenly developed some feelings for her brother she realised
how her brother wanted to run away from the painful world. Now she wanted to do
the same. She regretted shouting at him when he use to sit idle on the rooftop in
Shahkot.
She spend hours under Sampath’s tree imagining random possibilities.
Suddenly she was angry with the hungry hop boy thinking that he was the one
causing her all the trouble and worry. She seeked her brother’s help. Sampath compared
her to a firecracker, and with the help of his wise words, she decide to “explode.”
The next day Pinky got dressed and made her way to the bus
stop. The spy followed her just this once to make sure that there was nothing
going on with Pinky. Pinky took off her hair pin and attacked the spy, he
needed to rush for a tetanus shot to Doctor Banerjee.
In the market she walked up to the hungry hop boy. At first
she had a felling as if she wanted to kiss him but instead she bit his ear so
hard that a piece of it fell off. Everyone rushed to see what was happening.
The police questioned pinky, but she was not scared. After a
few minutes of conversation another police man came in and whispered something secretly.
When the police man realised that she was the sister of the baba (holy
man). Without further questions Pinky was dropped safely home. She was satisfied
now that she had bit Hungry Hop.
The policeman also went along to take Sampath’s blessing, thing
did not go the way Mr Chawla expected, Sampath completey ignore the policeman as
well as his questions. Sampath always had bad time with policemen. Mr Chawla wondered
why Sampath did take important people seriously.
When the policeman asked if he could have a picture with
this great baba then Mr Chawla thought why he never came up with this
marketing idea. Mr Chawla brought along a photographer and gave him the exact instructions
on how the picture should look like.
As soon as Sampath saw the photographer, Sampath reminded
the photographer of the love letter he use to send. The photographer was shocked
and it took him few minutes to recover. He also took the pictures for free. After the photo secession the pictures
were published everywhere, even in the Times of India.
Later that day there was an annual meeting of the Atheist Society.
The spy was outraged about the Chawla case. He was furious as he spoke about
the baba, he consumed up so much time that it was everyone’s dinner time
but the spy would not stop his complains. The audience was getting upset and forced
him to end his speech. Once again the
spy was filled with the determination to expose Sampath as a fraud.
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