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Romeo replayed: Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers would have an even tougher time in today’s UP 😜 March 31, 2017, 2:00 AM IST Jug Suraiya in Juggle-Bandhi | Edit Page, Humour, India | TOI Juliet (standing in balcony): O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Romeo (standing below balcony): Shh! Someone’ll hear my name. Juliet: Your name? What’s wrong with Romeo? It’s a perfectly good name. Romeo: Not in UP it isn’t. Young guys who hang around street corners looking at girls have been given a bad name – my name, and special anti-Romeo police teams have been formed to nab them. Juliet: You mean the cops are nabbing anyone and everyone whom they think looks like they could be a Romeo? Romeo: Yup, particularly if the person they think looks like a Romeo also happens to look like a Muslim, or a Yadav. Juliet: But you’re not a Muslim or a Yadav. You’re a Montague. Romeo: I don’t think that’s a recognised caste here, not even a scheduled one. Anyway, my name is Romeo, and that’s enough for these guys to haul me off to jail. Juliet: So what are you going to do? Romeo: I’m going to change my name by deed poll. Juliet: Oh, no! A Romeo by any other name wouldn’t be as sweet. Don’t be so chicken! Romeo: With no meat of any other kind available – what with abattoirs banned, along with Romeo – no one’s got any option but to go chicken. What do you think of Ramu Montague? Juliet: How awful that our love should have to hide under the cover of an alias. Romeo: Shh! That’s another word that has had an alias imposed upon it. Love has become a double-barrelled name and is often referred to as love-jihad. Juliet: You mean that instead of being known as the world’s most famous star-crossed lovers we’ll now be known as the world’s most famous love-jihadists? Romeo: I’m afraid so. We’ll have to do a ghar wapsi: you go wapsi to your ghar, and I go wapsi to my ghar, never to meet again. Juliet: Oh dear. I’ll wear black in mourning. Romeo: No you won’t. Saffron is the new black here. In fact, it’s the new everything. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
