Shopping for consensus

The recent retail FDI mayhem in Parliament reminds me of a childhood school memory. Once, in class VII, our strict teacher had given us a challenging assignment as homework. On the due date, most of the class had not done it. However, just prior to the teacher's arrival, someone had a brainwave. He planted a Diwali bomb on a long fuse under a vacant desk. The teacher arrived. Within a minute a deafening noise interrupted class. Shocked, the teacher rushed out and brought back the head-mistress. The rest of the teacher's period, both of them tried to figure out who set off the bomb and gave us lectures on our rowdy behaviour. The culprits were never found. The period ended in an hour. We breathed a sigh of relief. Nobody had cared about the homework.

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