Birthday Thoughts

"Dad do you really have to share your birthday with that ******? (unprintable related" to an equine and an orifice deleted) asked the daughter.
Sigh , did I have a choice?
But wait, may be I did,
Nope, nobody asked me for my choice of birthdate before I was born but I actually have two birthdays.One of them is my official birthday and today is my REAL birthday.
Officially I was born on June 15 three months before I was born . My date of birth was advanced by my parents so that I didn't miss a school year.
So if I didn't want to share a date of birth with You-know--_who(certainly not Voldemort) I could celebrate my birthday on June 15. But bhakt relatives would bristle. I should actually feel proud that I share a birthday with such a great man, they would say.
I realized that I also share ny birthday with Periyar EV Ramaswamy Naikar, the founding father of the Tamil Nadu Dravidian movement.. Well in his case I saw plus and minus points unlike just minus in You-know-who. He was a rationalist and atheist and that was okay. He was also notoriously parsimonius and that was great too as I myself am a kunjoos. (MNy mom used to call me Shylock)) but how much of a miser can you be that you don't buy a razor for shaving ? And would you believe it? Ugh, he never bathed! He was married twice and how did his wives put up with this? They must have been saints. As a water person who baths regularly this is super yuck for me. Still it is okay, better than you-know who.
As for shifting birthday celebrations to June 15, that to some extent has been a lucky date. Sample this, Once when I went to my bank a lady there checked my records and brightened up.
"Aha, you are a Gemini too? So am I she said"
Nice" I mumbled wondering what was soo nice about that.
After that Whenever I went to the bank, the lady bent backwards to help a Virgo with a Gemini alias. Until she got transferred.
from my branch I did not have the heart to tell her my real zodiac sign,Some times illusions should remain illusions, don't you think?
Well, why should I feel it is an ignominy to share a birthday with that guy so lovingly referred to with an unprintable by daughter dearest? Let me flatter myself, I am generous enough to share my birthday with him.. and it is not the other way MITHRON
PS:: Please don't ask me who us you-know-who. You don't want me to celebrate my next birthday behind bars in Tihar do you? UAPA? Sedition? No thanks.

 

Viswa, a belated thanks. I don;t think my date of birth is that powerful ( though I share with some powerful people) that it would keep me away from being behind bars if I rubbed the Great Leader the wrong way. As for EVR, he married a woman in her thirties who worked as his secretary and we really don't know whether he considered her as his daughter.

 

Cheeniya sir, Late Latif is better than Never Najib

 

A belated thanks. September is a month of great men. It has accomodated even some not-so-greats like me.