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The Headless Chicken

Headless Chicken

Greetings gentle readers,


Do you care who or what is this Headless Chicken, one who seems to have access to a keyboard, to top it?



The headless chicken is inspired by Manto and by R.K. Laxman. The headless chicken keeps religion and sex in the bedroom. The headless chicken is plural and singular. The headless chicken strides the world with absolute ease but is unable to hop across the Indo-Pak border. The headless chicken is you and me and all of us but most of all it is like the waiter at a 3-star hotel, watching and observing and crying and laughing and hanging around for tips. The headless chicken plagiarises like hell from day to day life. Join the headless chicken.



[Simultaneously published on Outlookindia.com]


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