(Obvious Agent Arumugam is a
comical character which I have planned to portray in my upcoming work of fiction.
Here is a portion from the write up)
‘The arrogant and the crocodile
hardly let go what they have at their hold’ Mimya used this adage when once I
was so adamant with my silly argument that had pushed her to the verge of
accepting defeat. Obvious Agent Arumugam was one such crocodile I often came
across. Obvious Agent Arumugam as his name suggests had no secret operations or
missions at his keep but his own living with tantalizing intellectual absurdity
skirting freaky pragmatism bundled in pseudo philosophy.
The eloquent Mr.Arumugam was not
a typical chatterbox, but a well tuned jukebox and all we needed was to drop
coins of innocent questions which would kindle him instantly. He would play his
intellectual tunes nonstop. He was dead sure that in the world things were just the way he had envisioned them and he had not an iota of
doubt that they were the other way around. He loved to talk like a caged parakeet which had
starved in self-imposed silence for aeons. Whatever was the matter, he never
hesitated to open his mouth and unleash the barrage of words. His knowledge included everything from
Communism to Cannibalism, Adolf Hitler to Haruki Murakami, Arthritis ailment to
Automobile expertise. We asked and he said, explained, elaborated and
enlightened us without his enthusiasm dropping off a bit. He had his wits alive as an owl which had its
gaze fixed on a prey. He would tell us that how Jenny led an embattled life
with Groucho Marx, the meekest of us would ask meekly ‘wasn’t it Carl instead
of Groucho, Mr. Arumugam?’, then the owl of his wit would come into play. ‘You
know Carl is synonymous to Groucho in German, very few people in history knew that
Carl had been affectionately called as Groucho, even sometimes as Khrushchev’.
Arumugam was known for his
uncompromising tidiness, for him godliness was next only to cleanliness. He was
three times more cleaner when compared to any one of us. He washed his plate once
before eating and twice after the meal. He would just sniff at the cup of
steaming hot coffee and say that the cup had been washed only twice.
Self-trumpeting came so naturally to Mr. Arumugam but he had the ability to
sheath it in seemingly uncontrived humility. When Obvious Agent Arumugam gets hold of a
fart which can’t sting even the humblest of noses he would make tall claims to
the levels of holocaust gassing and the never found WMD of Saddam Hussein’s
Iraq. Yet he dared not to let go the fart through the butt portion of his pants
beneath which, as some of us strongly believed, he had his divine brain. ‘You
have your souls in your butt cleavage’ a poet wrote and Obvious Agent Arumugam
chose to have his mind there for reasons not so obvious to us. For him the fart
that passes through as a fart is something unacceptable since it was from his
butt hole.
Without the likes of Arumugam the world would be a place of acute oscitancy,
so we are much indebted to them. By being so obviously sober they cause us our
discreet laughs.
