"Today being last working day of the term we will have vada for breakfast and gulab Jamun during lunch".
An excited buzz passed through the crowd. The people on the periphery listened to and watched the crowd with smiles across their lips. The announced had to shout a few demands for silence before the crowd quietened down. Their voices went silent but their minds chatted quietly through eyes and smiles. It was not the vada that generated the excitement. Obviously!
As they walked into the dining hall they were to shocked to find that the breakfast consisted only of vadas, They loved vadas but only when it was placed besides idly or pongal. Vada by itself did not seem like a breakfast. They stared at the plates consisting of three vadas being threatened by a growing pool of chutney. One of them said wryly "Whadda breakfast!" A little later, another voice raised a query tentatively "If breakfast consist only of vada, will the lunch only consist of gulab jamuns". The surrounding faces lighted up for a moment.
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