Sethumadhavan has one delightful girl and one charming boy.Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a humour writer, novelist, columnist and screenwriter.It was at this time — as if they had received a joint message from the almighty — that future dads, from Adarsh Nagar to Greater Kailash, rose as one, tenderly rubbed the swollen bellies of their glowing, middle-class wives and said: "You know what we are missing? Slavery. Because there’s a minimum of 63 heart emojis per pic.”

Hearing this message, through our time-tested Abhimanyu technology, womb-dwelling semi-babies nodded and said, "Cool, Parents. Our wish is your command.Let’s take my good friend Sethumadhavan from Chennai. Not till the end of time. Sethu has been persuaded to buy a large piece of land where his steadily growing collection of Vijay Mallya’s retired mares grazes nonchalantly. Along the way, as they were being dropped off or picked up at schools, sleepovers and college by ever-available parents (in a car chosen by the precious offspring), these lovely young ones decided where the family would go for dinner, which international destination they would grace this summer, or between Daddy and Mummy, who should do maths homework and who the science project. Lovingly named Janma Malini and Kurkuresh (perhaps by themselves, via a curt memo from the womb). Lovingly named Janma Malini and Kurkuresh (perhaps by themselves, via a curt memo from the womb). In modern India. Everyone knows a Sethumadhavan. I know it’s 2 am but that 24-hour coffee shop is just 18 km away.Kurkuresh, they say, has hinted that he has some good news of his own. It goes:My daddy is the bestest daddyHe’s so much cuter than MaddyHe is always there when I collect callAnd his remittances are never smallI might marry and leave – for a shortish whileCuz I’ll be back Vacuum Storage Bag Factory to bring back your smileWith Praful, dog, and two darling offspringFor whom you and Mummy can fetch and bringIt’s got 635 likes! That alone, he says, is worth the price of the air-tickets (economy, of course, she is such a considerate girl) he’s buying for her sixteen BFFs. (The little angel makes up one of every five international students in the US. They are wonderful, apparently, according to the pics shared by the parents. But not before he tried and rejected Australia.. With Christopher Nolan’s fourth assistant (serendipitously available at a throwaway price!) videographing the entire thing. And the mandatory #feelingblessed.. If you are honest, some of you are Sethumadhavan. Sethumadhavan has one delightful girl and one charming boy. And that #partytime will be in Bali. He can see sixty on the horizon but has decided to take up a second job. And it took root, innocuously enough, in the bedrooms of upwardly mobile middle-class-parents-to-be in the ’90s.Unfortunately, no gap year for Sethu. Kitts. As his assistant’s second-in-command. Apparently in preparation for the giant horse-wrangling boom she has predicted in the next five years. Some good old-fashioned slavery.The second one, god bless him, studies in the US, too. To a lovely Gujarati boy whose folks run a video repair shop in Edison, New Jersey.And Sethumadhavan is "over the moon” because dear, affectionate, sentimental Janma Malini has posted a delightful poem on Insta about how he is the Bestest Daddy In The World.The latest Facebook post of the Sethumadhavans is about how #feelingawesome they both are that their older one, the beauteous Janma Malini, is getting engaged now.Let’s take my good friend Sethumadhavan from Chennai. Yes, Darling (or atthaan, jaanu, baava, chettan or sachchinoda as the case may be), and we can fill that vacuum by giving birth to our very own personal slave-masters. He is currently taking a gap year (after six harrowing months of study) in St.”And all the wives, finely tuned to the thoughts in their partners’ heads, completed the sentence with: ".) She is getting a Masters in Rodeo Management from the University of Lower West Arizona. Everyone knows a Sethumadhavan. His wife, Anjali, once a lovely girl herself, sells pickles as a side business

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But that great initiative to clean up the city has also faded since. Sardar Usman Buzdar, the PM’s choice as the chief minister for Punjab, was thought to have one trait that distinguished him from many other candidates. Faisal Vawda jumping to the literal defence of the people, gun in hand and everything, passed too quickly — mercifully for the audience. Imran Khan (Photo: File) In August 2018, as Mr Imran Khan took charge of the country, the more discerning in the crowd were confronted by the sheer emptiness that separated the PTI chief from the provincial power centres. Sorely missed were the Khan lieutenants — politicians — who had the competence and status to look after his political interests in crucial centres away from Islamabad.Especially jarring was the absence of worthy enough PTI politicians in Karachi and Lahore.Especially jarring was the absence of worthy enough PTI politicians in Karachi and Lahore. Karachi made Imran Khan the prime minister. 

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