EDWARD CULLEN........the character from the Twilight series is now a hot favorite at tuitions. Every kid who is coming to this house is talking about the vampire. One even wrote a composition on the blood sucking creature (the topic was 'My Greatest Fantasy'). Mother is demanding to know who 'Cullen' is while Younger Uncle wants to know where we put the mosquito repellent (???) Some of the 8th grade
girls want me to write a book on vampires.....I asked them what category :

1) The Blood Sucking Kind

2) The Political Blood Sucking Kind

They said I could do a sort of blending & mixing which made Younger Uncle feel quite nauseated (he hates anything that sucks blood). After they left, the family & I sat in our hall & contemplated the plight of vampires & dal curry mixed in blood (the latter was a gross contribution from Younger Aunt's sordid imagination). We would have contemplated more on the matter but then.....the 6th graders walked in......they had apparently a very important science topic to study.......'THE LIFE OF A LEECH'..........it then occurred to Younger Uncle a dazzling (but gross) idea for a vampire story.......it would be an Indian politician who was bitten by a vampire leech (trust Younger Uncle to think of this one) & who followed the movements of another politician & fell in love with her & bit her too....changing her into a vampire leech & both of them sucked the blood & money of the poor income tax paying (& non-paying) nation where they had to fight a battle with giant Social Workers who were actually mosquitoes (the dengue kind....he told me that the malaria kind could appear in the next series)........eek !