Bhilu Ram along with other respected members of the SC category went to the village brahmin’s house. The brahmin had gone to some work at city and his son asked the purpose of the visit. “I wanted to meet Panditji for getting the auspicious date for his son’s wedding.”
“But my father will only come home in the evening.”
“Can you do something? Like call your father or should we come tomorrow then?” He smiled and moments later, he added, “I want Panditji to consult the calendar and books to find an auspicious day, I have only one son.” Bhilu Ram was persistent.
“Sure.” The pandit’s son smiled. “I can talk to my father, let’s see what he says.”
He turned away from them, called his father and asked what he had been asked. “Give them any date. It doesn’t matter for shudras, whenever they get married. Auspiciousness and other good things aren’t for them. Don’t you know that?”
“Okay.”
He turned to tell them, “15 days from now…”but found them leaving the premises of his house.
It so happened during his father’s answer, the touch phone had gone to speaker phone.