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'Kachra' Cleaning spree..!

Kashmir Times. Dated: 10/10/2014 10:36:32 PM

"Don't!" screamed Mrs Chander as the doorbell rang. "Don't what?" asked her puzzled husband.
"That's the sweeper," said Mrs Chander, " but don't put the kachra out! Here give it to me!"
Mr Chander watched in astonishment as his wife took the kachra dabha from his hand, opened the window of their second floor flat, and threw the garbage out.
He watched with helpless fascination as the trash from his house flew into the air then littered the ground below. "What are you doing?" he asked his wife. "Don't you know?" she whispered, "Mr D'Mello has organized a Modi style 'clean the society' drive, so I threw our kachra down!"
"But why?" asked Mr Chander.
"Because our society is already clean," whispered Mrs Chander, "But I want to help the poor children and others, so that they have something to collect! We also, dear husband, should do our bit for Modi's inspirational cause!"
Mr Chander, the husband sighed wearily and sat down, "Is this D'Mello, the fellow who keeps giving our society trouble?" he asked. "Spreading rumours about the committee, gossiping that the President is selling our buildings to a builder for redevelopment, creating discord among the members, fights among their wives, isn't he the same person?"
"Yes!" said his wife brightly, "the same man!"
"Then, the society is the wrong place he is having his cleanliness drive in," said the husband, "maybe what he needs is to clean the vileness, hatred and hostility from his heart!"
"We'll need a large broom for that!" laughed his wife.
"Maybe a Forbes vacuum cleaner!" chuckled the husband, "But it's time he got some advice from me!"
Mrs Chander ran to the window as she heard shouting, "Aunty, can you throw down some more kachra, we need to clean something, since he's given all of us brooms!" She waved to the children and came back to her husband, who laughed as she told him what the children wanted, "Well throw down that old pair of boots of mine!" he said, "We shouldn't disappoint Mr D'Mello and his new love for Modi.
"What, dear husband is the advice you would like to give him?" asked the wife sweetly.
"Ah the advice!" said Mr Chander, "What he needs to hear, is that all the cleaning of the outside is useless if the insides of his heart and mind are as unclean and dirty as his is..!"
They both chuckled as Mr Chander threw his old boots down.
There was silence and then a loud noise. "What happened?" asked Mrs Chander from the sitting room.
"The shoes hit D'Mello on the head, and I must say empty vessels make a loud noise!" roared Mr Chander as his wife giggled uncontrollably.
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