“OUR FEARS”
Dear Readers, Few days back, I received a message from my Cousin on Whatsapp. It began like this -“Sai asked me to tell you….”. For a moment, I wondered if she was passing on a message from our NSS old friend who is from Goa by the same name. I was wondering how she know my friend “ Sai Shirodkar ” who is from Goa. But after reading further, my doubts were cleared! The message was supposedly from Shirdi Sai Baba ( !!!!) who wanted me to know that all my troubles would be solved. But there was a caveat. I had to forward the message to nine others within four minutes of reading it !!! Otherwise….. well, it was quite possible that he might dump everyone else’s troubles on my plate! Though a part of me wondered how the late Sufi saint from Maharashtra had got on to Whats app to spread his word, another part of me was uneasy about not sending it around to nine people! I think I must have spent more than four minutes debating on this. That in itself was scary.. so I decided to
