{"id":449,"date":"2006-03-17T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T03:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2006-03-17T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T03:08:32","slug":"yeah-but-why-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200603\/yeah-but-why-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, but why cricket?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gaurav<\/a> has outed Michael as being a CIA agent. Of course, I knew this all along, but I couldn’t figure out which department he was in, till I met him on Saturday. The answer came to me suddenly, just when a heated discussion on cricket was going on. “Psychological warfare!” I whispered to Michael and the look of alarm on his face told me all that I needed to know. Chetan (sitting between me and Michael) also heard it, of course, and he interpreted it to mean that cricket was psychological warfare. But Michael understood, and I understood that he understood, and he understood that I understood that he understood. <\/p>\n

Of course, now we were both on our guard. <\/p>\n

Which would it be? The Indian buffet at Aditi or the cake which he’d so thoughtfully brought for me? <\/p>\n

Of course, it wasn’t death I was afraid of. CIA doesn’t do assassinations anymore. While it is not quite banned, the procedure to get the required approvals is too cumbersome. Their current modus operandi is to release the Agent Nanobot into your bloodstream and it affects your brain, leading to subtle changes. You might lose crucial bits of your memory. You might even suddenly start using American spelling, lose your sense of humor or alternately, go into transportations of delight for no good reason. The old-fashioned precautions against imbibing Agent Nano – making sure that everyone else had the same stuff – is useless. This nanobots are triggered only when they receive a signal from their master. I and Michael could imbibe the same stuff and only I would feel the effects, because he could transmit the trigger only to my bots. <\/p>\n

I noticed that he went ahead of me to get his lunch. I quickly followed and watched his every step. He did nothing. My food was untainted as far as I could guess. A surreptitious scan revealed no Agent Nanobot. Then I cut a cake and scanned that too before I ate it. No Nanobot, but Michael was smiling his supercilious smile. “Agents are dangerous, but analysts are worse.” was his mysterious statement. <\/p>\n

“So you are an analyst. Big deal!” I snorted. “Yeah, you are right in more ways than you can imagine.” was his reply. <\/p>\n

To be continued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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