Life mein kabhie kabhie kuch na kuch achcha hota hai - 2
- Pepsi
It’s a bright and sunny April morning here in Chennai. Temperatures are soaring high as the city gears itself for another month of scorching heat.
And with soaring temperatures can frayed tempers be far behind?
Anxious parents with their 12th standard nail-chewing wards swarm the school’s bulletin board like bees to honey to get a better view of the results.
A lone Pepsi vendor polishes the table top as if in anticipation of celebrations for some and tears of sorrow for the rest that he predicts will follow.
The results are put up on the board. There’s a mad scramble, and heads over heads are jostling against one another for space.
There are shrieks of laughter as tears of joy well up from brimming eyes of pretty girls and gallant boys.
This calls for a celebration.
Wards and parents treat other happy wards and parents to ice-filled glasses of Pepsi. There is mayhem in the stall and idle chatter with happy exchanges of marks.
Amidst the babble of the geese and the gander is the lone duckling with her dejected parents in tow about to climb onto the scooter to ride a tired journey home.
The bleak story is not lost on the ever watchful gaze of the Pepsi boy who saunters across with tall glasses of icy Pepsi and gives the family a treat on the house.
A fleeting moment of sheer happiness dispels the sorrow as the ice-filled, sweetened dark liquid washes down parched throats.
And happiness overflows at knowing that they do not have to pay a farthing for it, unlike the others.
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, isn’t that right, Pepsi?
It’s true: Life mein kabhie kabhie kuch na kuch achcha hota hai!
(In life sometimes, something good always happens!)
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