S.C. KAPOOR

 Scene-1. 

A cold winter morning.   Place:  Ahmedabad City Branch No.7/839, then housed on 1^st floor, Nirmal Building,
Tilak Road. 

An Officer, on CL that day, suddenly appears on scene and rushes towards his seat.  He sees an Assistant sitting in his chair searching for proposal papers. 

Officer: “What are you doing here?” 

Assistant stands up.  Meekly replies him, he is searching for a proposal paper. 

Officer: “Let it go to dogs.”

Scene-2.

Same office.  Staff members arrive as usual. They witness a signal change.  A sign board hangs in front of ladies toilet room: “OFFICERS AND LADIES”. 

A second toilet room is earmarked for male staff members.   No lady officer in the office.

May be a question of ‘ego’ of an officer.  He would intrude into privacy of a Ladies toilet rather than sharing a general toilet room.   

Scene-3.  

Same office.  Sign board still hangs there but a staff member has played a joke. 

Sign board now reads: “ OFFICERS’  AND   LADIES ”.

_____________

* a Delhi-ite, forty years younger then.
....unacceptable behaviour patterns.  ....something odious and unpalatable.
Incidents that disturbed my mind are recollected.