Chapter 3

He was walking along the route to the main temple complex, when he found someone selling pictures in full vigour. "5 Venkata pics for Rs.75. " That seemed quite cheap as the people around were flocking around him to get the maximum out of the offer. He went upto the person selling as asked him for five pics. Actually he was glad he had found someone who could speak English in this vastland. They started talking to each other. 

The other guy introduced himself as Srinivasa, self-proclaimed most famous guide in Tirupathi, and said he knew the town of Tirupathi to inches. Then the guy introduced himself as RaviTeja, the son of an industrialist from Britain, and so did not know his supposed mother-tongue Telugu. He was helped with a bit of English by Srinivasa.

The walk to the shrine was a long one. Srinivasa kept talking non-stop all through the way. He spoke about almost everything, right from mythology to sports to politics to business to what not!! It left RaviTeja wondering how such a brilliant guy could be doing nothing but selling pictures on the roadside! He was listening to Srinivasa talk, and he felt a long time bond suddenly. Such was the impact of Srinivasa on him. Srinivasa was a jovial character, who constantly set up questions and replied with witty answers, leaving RaviTeja in splits. At some point of time, RaviTeja asked Srinivasa about S.V.V.D.V.K. Srinivasa was like, "You don't know Vamsi!!" 

"No!"

"He is our big fat CM!!"

"You mean Chief Minister?"

"No! I mean Chota Mama. He is the advisor to the Prime Minister, and in the process does all sorts of dirt he can do to the country. The entire state is in awe of him, as he is from the state, but frankly speaking, I don't see what he has done for the state. He has been a big fat thief of the country's treasury."

"Oh ok, he is of such a designation is it? I had never heard of him before. What name did you tell his was?"

"Vamsi. Vamsi Krishna!"

"Oh! Alright!!"

"By the way, I forgot to tell you. He is in Tirupathi this evening. He has come here with his daughter."

"Oh really!! I want to meet him. Tonight!!"

"Yeah we can. He is here to supposedly cleanse his daughter's sins. She was in love with a Jat for some seven years, and broke up very recently. Vamsi wants to cleanse his daughter, and then get her married for a lump sum amount!"

"I least bother right? I want to meet Vamsi. That's all!!"

As they were walking towards the sanctum santorum, RaviTeja just pulled the picture out of his pocket. He saw the doe-eyed beauty and wondered who she could be. He just wished he got to know more about himself. 

As he was staring at the pic, he found a couple of people with guns in their hand. Supposedly terrorists had broken into the temple. Srinivasa was shouting, "Its all Vamsi's fault!!" RaviTeja was blank. Then he got an idea...