Chhipkali, or perhaps chhipi hui kali?
The ever-entertaining Times of India tells us the story of a girl who
was watching television when her mother knelt down for evening prayers. The mother asked her daughter to turn off the television, but the teenager kicked the holy book, and immediately turned into a half-lizard-like creature.
This everyday incident predictably leads to an everyday commotion.
It’s been madness for the last two days at J J Hospital at Byculla which has been besieged by curious mobs desperate to view the freak patient. Denials by harried doctors that any such patient had been admitted proved futile as the crowds continued to push their way in, scanned each ward and almost broke into the intensive care unit for heart patients.
We nod in quiet approval.
It’s a girl, it’s a lizard, it’s a rumour - The Times of India