Amitabh was not built to take these remarks seriously. His major talent lay in the fact that he could selectively ignore remarks and keep solicitising his own thoughts to others which as a matter of fact were as illogical as they could get.

"Mr President, I would like to know" he started and his right hand also started flying about, "why we do not have a life jacket for our projects." The left hand was getting into a nook inside his nose. "I mean considering that they are going live and we are so happy about them, why can't we have a life jacket for them so that they stay live for some time." The left hand was now coming out and the right was getting in. "Ofcourse I dont mean that we are in sea or something, but a life jacket is always better to have. I, for example, always carry a life jacket even if I am travelling on a scooter, becasue you never know when the rain Gods might want to show there wrath on us and completely drown Delhi. Dont you think a life jacket will be good to keep. Nice suggestion, heh!!" Nose flaring, eye brows lifting he ended with a wink.

Now come to think of it it's not such a bad suggestion. But coming from Amitabh it was .....