“Dikuna men, I’m ‘thoda’ shocked — how to tell you, my name  has appearded in de Episteen Files!”

Illustration/Uday Mohite

Lobo Lobo, my cable TV technician came over looking very freaked out.

“Hello Lobo Lobo, how are you…you look a little shaken…what is the matter?”

Lobo Lobo was silent, moving around in a daze — finally he spoke.

“Dikuna men, I’m ‘thoda’ shocked — how to tell you, my name  has appearded in de Episteen Files!”

“How is that possible… the Epstein Files – only the rich and famous have been mentioned; politicians, presidents, film stars, musicians, industrialists, billionaires  — how are you alongside, Elon Musk, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Deepak Chopra,” I asked, perplexed.“Even I don’t know men,” he said.

“Was it a mistake…” I said.

“Of cuss men, it is a mistake, but still de blinking name is dere, and it’s all over de news on our side of Navi Mumbai… Peepuls are tinking ki I’m ‘loaded’,........

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