Reserve, reserve and reserve some more until we forget what the reservations were meant for!

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India's political and administrative scenario often reminds me of a headless chicken trying to cross the road through peak-hour traffic. Now that the reservations are announced, it seems they have managed to leg cuff the bird as well.

Have you ever heard the story of a man who experimented on a household cockroach? He cut off a wing and commanded the roach to move. The insect lifted itself in the air and promptly fell. The man snipped off the other wing and asked the roach to move. The cockroach tried to run away. He, then, cut off the front leg and told the roach to move. The poor insect crawled a few centimeters. Gradually, the other front leg, the two middle legs and one of the back legs were separated and the roach was told to move. It still wriggled to the center of the dish. Finally, the last limb was severed and the cockroach was told to move again. This time it did not.

The clever man wrote the conclusion in his journal: When all the appendages of a cockroach are severed off, the insect turns deaf.

This was narrated as a "joke" many years ago. Somehow, it came to mind today.