The Trump Card

 The Trump(ets) of the world have heaved a sigh of relief after four years of having been blown non-stop, no wonder all that they produced these days was " Vivekamunandan..." When they were queried on their misery, they responded tongue in cheek that "They were 'biden' their time". The other instruments in the repertoire of the conductors were feeling left out, the violins, flutes, percussion, trombones and even the piano had been reduced to just accompaniments from their leadership days. In a secret conclave the instrument world had already decided  to disown the Trumpets for their misdemeanour. Trumpets in their defence said the charges were 'trumped up'.

 The inanimate world as also the one we inhabit has suddenly come alive....."No Trumps" seems to be the favourite winning call for the Bridge players. In fact playing cards have unanimously adopted a motion of banishing the 'trump' suit forever from all forms of card games. Alternately they have applied for a change in the nomenclature from its Latin origin "Triumph" to "Vijay", the Indian equivalent of victory in keeping with the flavour of the season. So no more trump cards, there will be "Vijay" or "No Vijay". Vijay after all was the nom de guerre of the Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachhan in most of his early 'angry young man' films. It obviously will be victorious in any popularity contest with world's oldest and the largest democracies colluding.

The celluloid world of the Disney's have suddenly rediscovered their mojo, Donald the original Duck had gone into hiding since Nov 16 itself. Ever since his duckling days, he was ruling the roost, the last four years have been crazy, he confided. He has been welcomed with great quack..quackery and goofing around.  Uncle Scrooge's stock too seems to have gone up these days, as even he seems like a nice guy in comparison. Goofy has stopped goofing around; after all the goof ups in the last couple of years, he feels, the world needs a break. The mice fraternity too have finally admitted to have 'Moved their cheese!"

 The toon festive spirit seems to have rubbed off on the global climate too, having been in the ICU last couple of years, with all the hurricanes, wild fires, extreme heat, floods, glacial melting and to top it all the 'Pandemic'. Mother nature may again bestow its bounty on us and the world will hopefully be more alive now that climate change may again acquire centre stage. Lotus shall bloom again!  Kamla "pasand" has suddenly acquired a new meaning and the hard core gutka chewing UP wallah is now looked at with a deference, after all they were 'Bidding' on the winning horse all along.