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How to become an Indian beggar in five easy steps.

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I am so happy you clicked on the link . You are awesome.Now continue. Step 1: Foul smell attack!! Scientists have discovered that a man can live without food for 3 weeks and without water for two days. But he can survive without bathing forever, until your nose hair burns off and your body scent incapacitates your brain. You will save nearly 30 hours of your month and your income will increase exponentially. Don’t forget to throw your shampoo bottle down the drainage. Step 2: Time for your daddy’s t-shirt and that fat aunty’s kurta. Everyone has one. Borrow them and tear them down to the least of pieces. Girls should dirty their kurta and probably soak their hair in mud. Boys! Make sure you don’t overdo the tearing else the pieces of rag may fall down and your income might rise suddenly. Phate kapde nikla bhikari. Step 3: Start singing but not like celine dion. You have to be a ‘ garibonka pankaj udhas ’ or ‘ garibonki phalguni pathak ’ . If you sing melodious

GIRLS ! please dont do this when it happens!

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I am not writing this post for the sake of entertainment but, with some turbulence in my heart. All of this because I witnessed something really terrible. It was the first morning of Navratri. I happened to normally stand on  platform no.4 as a part of work routine. Daily routines really bore you because you find nothing new .You just keep on doing it mechanically day after day. I was in the same mood. But, mind it ! this time it was very different. My heart started pumping faster and mind became more alert. I had   mixed emotions and a bit of disappointment. All of time seemed so fast. A short girl in a normal tshirt and blue jeans happened to be my mood changer. She was on the same platform as me. Like me she was too waiting but, for the train before me.As the trains arrived one by one, it threw along a huge crowd of service going people. The platform went crowded again. As train arrived she realized that it was the wrong compartment, so she rushed towards her