City Faith – Reading the Goat’s Mind, Gali Chamre Wali
Last thoughts.
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi]
It was the morning of the Muslim festival of Eid ul Zuha, or Bakra Eid, in which animals are sacrificed to commemorate the legend of a devout man’s complete surrender to his God.
While strolling in the Old Quarter, The Delhi Walla came across a brown-and-white goat on Gali Chamre Wali, or the street of the leather. The goat was tied to the blue shutters of an adjacent shop. She was silently gazing on at what appeared to be the skin of a newly slaughtered goat. The skin was neatly arranged on the roadside, and was laid out after the shape of a goat.
What was the brown-and-white goat thinking? Take your pick.
a) My friend must now be in heaven.
b) The beauty’s gone from this world.
c) She was such a miser.
d) Why should I care? She wasn’t of my faith.
e) My turn today.
f) God is great.
Seeing the future
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Damn I feel so bad!!
Definitely ” My turn today”.
g) What a lovely pair of shoes that would make!
h) Darn, they always give the best cuts to someone else.
i) I could skin myself waaay better than that!
j) I thought he was just getting a shave…
Its not difficult to read goat’s mind if we keep keep ourself in goat’s place and imagine another person being slaughtered in front and know that next turn is ours .it will become easy for anyone to tick the correct choice of all the six options given above try this way and I assure ,you will get the correct answer.