Junglistan in Celebration

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Ittooppu had prepared a new concoction for the occasion. The Junglistan cricket team had won a one-day tournament in Australia, a land beyond the seas where kangaroos hop mad, on and off the field. It called for celebration. The chief minister of Junglistan, Tortoise Kunhiraman, who also heads the BCCJ, had already reached, so had other board members. The dailies had hailed the victory as second only to the World Cup win in 1983. They had drawn comparisons with the heroics of Kapil's Devils, but had to decide finally that the World Cup triumph was probably bigger because it was after all the World Cup. All except one, the dissenting voice coming from the Junglistan Telegraph. It was more worried about what could and would happen to Maharaj, who was till two years ago Junglistan's Gaurav. Kunhiraman raised his head, putting aside the newspaper he was reading.....