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Vol. III, No. 26, 03 July 2015

Who let the Dogs out?

During my active younger days (now being passive younger days!!!), an English number by the title of this write
up, came on the music world scene and posed a big question mark in front of all music lovers. Since then all of
us - my friends and me of equal musical quotient expected that a sequel to the song would follow and maybe we
shall have our ever elusive answer to the very strategic query posed by the famous pop icon. The icon is famous
because whenever this music number woofed or barked with a deafening noise, it hit like a rock on our temples.
It also set many youngsters achieve a sort of energetic boogie, resembling a cross between twist, jive and hip-
hop - a sort of Taandav dance. Looking at the soap operas played out on Indian television channels day in and
day out reminds me of the same elusive question and its induced jazz mix dance. One political leader after the
other is made to do Taandav and reporters keep posing the same question Who let the dog out? Prime
ministers prefer the famous saintly yoga asan of maun vrat and do nothing, the latter thanks to the great gift of
Mr Narsimha Rao, our ex PM called prevarication. Dont let anyone provide the answer and finally the free
roaming dog will come back home. National leaders will do well to thank him and follow his art of
prevarication, if they want to keep the dog out of their closets.
Coming back to my younger days with two ever enthusiastic boys growing up into their primary school days,
who let the dogs out was a symbolic song for leaving everything aside and gyrate! I remember one occasion
where one looti-nent newly commissioned from the academy, with a useful help from Old Monk, went into
Taandav like trance effect of the number. He gyrated and rotated himself like a top and in effect resembled a
hung up soul like a fan running at high speed. The hung up soul, rotating, sloshed and still under the influence of
the English number not understanding why Mother Earth has suddenly gone up on revolutions, starting
throwing his arms like a crazy driver of formula one race car, not knowing whats happening when the brakes
fail. This comical chaotic mle resulted in the poor hung up and sloshed souls extended lower limbs, with the
increased acceleration due to the centrifugal forces created by the rotation, hitting the perfectly shaped behind
of a senior officers better half, throwing everyone in the vicinity in a figureless heap. The result, as expected,
was a blanket ban on poor Old Monk for the looti-nent till further orders.
Coming out of flash memory of yonder years, the TV news channels increasingly remind me of the iconic song.
Nation wants to know who let the dogs out? Why should a PM of a nation suffer from his lady luck beats me? In
other form, this had happened to the French president Sarkozy or Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, but for
different reasons. For a proven yogi, establishing a Guinness world record, to remain on the mat is unfair. The
question coming to everyones mind remains the same. Who let the dogs out? The movie Who let the Gods
out, in 2011; provided a mystical twist on Mt Olympus, rather than solving the elusive riddle. Fortunately, for
souls of my kind and for the mankind in general, the sequel of the now not so famous English number was never
released and the answer to the elusive question as to who really let the dogs out on that day at the officers mess
party remains as evasive as it is for many of Lalits victims.

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