[Blog Tour] Champ : A Rags to Riches Story By Rajesh Rao
right in the morning. Downing a couple of Johnnie Walkers – on the rocks – he saw that many of
the servants had not turned up. Later it dawned on him that many of them were on leave since it
was Diwali – the festival of lights. He just resigned to the fact that it was yet another festival
without his beloved by his side. Just then, he heard the opening of the front door and Ramu, the
oldest of the staff and as dedicated a person as Anandi was heard happily chatting with someone
who just entered. On looking out, he saw that Anandi was back. She was fit as a fiddle. Wearing
a blue sari and an unusual style of sensuously fitted blouse that had a low cut that exposed the
cleavage of her full breasts just enough to make a man weak in his knees. Maybe Angelica had
passed it on to her.
What surprised Dubash was the fact that she had traveled past the shanty colony and the walk
after that without a hitch. Even the normal hoodlums and other loose characters had failed to
notice this exquisite sculpture. Of course, Ramakant would be too drunk to notice it or maybe he
always eyed her with a lustful gaze. So, he wouldn’t notice the difference. In fact, the reason that
nobody had noticed the features that Dubash was going over himself admiring was that she had
covered herself with a shawl, which she had apparently folded and kept in the locker that was
provided to the servants.Now, call it fate or deliberate design that normally it was Ramu who would come to Dubash’s
room and enquire what would the morning breakfast be. However, it was Anandi who walked to
the room, knocked and entered. Dubash was spellbound and could just mumble “half fried on
whole wheat”.
Rajesh Rao although had started out on many journeys, before the culmination of this novel, never taken most of the journeys he set on to the logical end. And though the journeys were left incomplete, the impressions that these experiences left on the person helped to shape a rather enigmatic personality that has left people bewildered. As is the case of the six blind men of Indostan and the elephant, which had a hidden meaning that not many students of that grade can fathom, many people (groups of friends, colleagues,etc) have branded him differently and in accordance to how they saw him, (rather than what he himself was) when they were involved with him.
Although boxing was his first passion, Rajesh has been involved in different sports like Kabbaddi, Basketball, Athletics and of course Cricket. These were mainly the journeys he just couldn’t complete. The sole reason being that although people saw the potential, his heart kept yearning for the smell of leather on the face.
