Saturday 27 February 2021

Badhai Ho

 Imagine. You are at gender reveal party. No one knows if it is a boy or a girl but it doesn't matter, right? The parents will love it because it is THEIR baby. As the sun bakes your head, it gets hot in Bombay at this time, you wonder what happens if they bring out the blue balloons but also has images of tiny otters printed on it. It is a boy-Otter!
Or it is pink but it has an armadillo on it.
"Didn't armadillos cause the Covid, a frenemy pipes up and someone shuts him down, no it was a relative pangolin who did that, armadillos are good, just don't eat them up. Don't eat any of them up. They are your friend's babies"
Or maybe the balloons reveal it is a boy white-rhino.
"The same one that went extinct?"
" Yes exactly that."
"
Badhai
ho! You brought back a lost species to this world," you say to the parents.
"The government is going to give you a subsidy on everything. You also have to get yourself a park so the baby rhino can frolick around and have the best childhood possible. I mean look at what the Gills did for their baby giraffe. They moved to Africa so he could have a better life. And they have become real helicopter parents, they hover over him in an actual helicopter to keep an eye on him. "
Wouldn't be so much more suspenseful if we could extend the spectrum from just human boy, human girl to across species at this gender reveal parties, they would be so much less boring.