Diary of a Social Buterfly

Diary of a Social Buterfly
Janoo bechara is tau totally dump founded. With this Trump election yaar, aur kya? He was so sure Hillary was going to win. All the Poles (don’t know why Poland wallahs always get to say who’ll win and who won’t) said Hillary will win, pukka. But you know, Mummy, Aunty Pussy and other oldies like them they were right all along when they said goras can’t be trusted. (They know na because they lived through Partition, Mount Batting and every thing. They say oopar say they can say whatever they like but andar say goras are like this only. Meesna. Racist.) Apparently it was the goras who’ve brought in Trump. Just like Brexit. They say they want their countries back. I didn’t know their countries had gone anywhere but chalo, what do I know?

But Janoo is very depress. ‘With Erdogan, Xi, Putin, Modi and now Trump, authoritarianism is on the march,’ he said. ‘Soon Europe will also be overtaken by fascists.’ I don’t know why facialists are bad (Shalia, my facial waali is very nice actually) but I didn’t say because Janoo was in such a bad mood that I thought better keep quiet. Apni izzat apnay haath.

All my friends who’ve got children studying in America are very worried. It’s like 9/11 all over again. Then tau the Americans were just anti Muslim but now they are anti everyone who’s not white. So Bubbly, whose daughter is studying in Stand Ford says people there voted for Hillary so she’s safe (and in any case she’s very gora and she’s dyed her hair blonde) but Sunny whose son is in Mixigun where there are lots of Trump kay log, is so scared she’s thinking of calling him back. ‘To hell with degrees, baba,’ she said. ‘Jaan hai tau jahaan hai.’ Apparently hate crimes against Muslims were already up when Trump wasn’t even President. Ub tau the racists will have a filled day. Chalo, for once, we can feel sorry for Americans.