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The September Spotlight series comes to an end with this hilarious short story by Wajahat Malik. Babu Sarfaraz reminisces about the golden days of the clerical glory of brown nosing, paper weights and red tapes and fondly remembers the big names that ruled the roost in Pakistan and were responsible for the state we are in today…. Dear begums and sahibs of high gentry, please allow me to drop my name without any offence.

In a country like ours, where dropping names is akin to the dropping of daisy cutter bombs, my name should be considered as the odourless fart of an ordinary village mullah. In the manner of passing, please grant me the wish of announcing my name to your high lordships.

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The title of Babu in front of my name, my dear sahibs, is indeedly a peacock feather in an otherwise ordinary legacy of our family cap. This grand title was conferred upon my grandfather at the time of his untimely death, in the service of British Raj by none other than His White Highness Lord Francis Younghusband, the duke of Nutsville.

It is the same Syed Sarwar Khan, they say, who was, later on, issued hundreds of acres of land in the vale of Peshawar as well as the title of Khan Bahadur, and who was also responsible for hanging nineteen native cooks and bearers in the service of the great savage General John Nicholson, on the suspicion of spying for the rebel army of the Great Mutiny.

Your lordships, please allow this nobody to digress and reveal a little piece of information of historical importance for your brilliant tastes. While traveling on the Grand Trunk Road to the city of Peshawar, you cannot but discern an erection in the form of an obelisk gracing a hill right above Margalla Pass. Anyway, coming back to the subject, my grandfather started his career as a peon in the office of the Royal Survey of India and later kissed his way up and got promoted as a junior clerk in the mapping section of said organisation, in the town of Rawalpindi.