Q&A (pgs103-165)

Summary
Ram is starting to explain how he knew the 5th question for 50,000 rupees. Ram is a servant for an Australian family, they are christian so they prefer to call him Mr. Thomas. Besides Mrs. Taylor always saying, "Bloody Indians" they treat Mr. Thomas very nice like if he was a kid of their own. Mr. Thomas is paid good money, during his time with them he found out the Mr. Taylor was a spy and that is why he always knew the bad things that went on in his house. Mr. Thomas decided to leave the Taylor family because he earned enough money and he wanted to see Salim. The 5th question Ram knew because the Taylor family knew a lot about the foreign diplomat persona non grata, and wanted to know the meaning of that Ram answered that the diplomat is not acceptable and got correct. The host was in shocked that he answer correctly. After leaving Ram was still not able to meet Salim yet, so he ended up working as a bartender. Ram was getting tired of speaking to drunkards but when his boss demands he talk to the man who keeps weeping he starts to enjoy his story. The man's name is Prakash Rao who owns a button industry, he says he killed his brother because his wife Julie did voodoo on his brother. It got to the point where Mr. Rao would bring this voodoo doll everywhere with him and stab holes into it which caused his brother pain. His brother was sent to a mental hospital and died there, and Mr. Rao was now in control of the company. Mr. Rao was planning to divorce his wife, so she found out and Ram says Mr. Rao yelled ow and died right there. Smita does not believe the story at all and jokes about it. Ram got the 6th question correct by saying the capital of Papua New Guinea was Port Moresby. Ram is now boarding the train to head for Ghatkopar to see Salim. Ram had his suitcase and his 50 thousand rupees in his underwear, so no one would steal it. By meeting a boy named Akshay and showing him this money he had (such a stupid move) the next day a dacoits (robber) came to the people's valuable goods. When it was Ram's turn to put his stuff in the bag and when he was finish Akshay yells out he has 50 thousands rupees and the dacoits took it. Akshay's sister Meenakshi was getting sexually harass by one of the dacoits and Ram like her because he was beautiful so he shot the guy and ran off the train so he will not get arrested. The 7th question asking who invented the revolver he answer A Samuel Colt and now has 200,000 rupees, sadly he never saw her again.

Quotation
Ram is talking to Mr. Rao, and Mr. Rao says this a lot while telling his story, "Then I will tell you my story, friend. I am drunk, you know. And a drunken man always speaks the truth" (Swarup 137).

Reaction
I have heard this saying a lot when I go to family get together one of my uncles will say mostly when someone is drunk they will always tell the truth. It is always shown in movies too. When reading Mr. Rao's story I was in shock with some of the stuff he did to his brother because that is his brother he should be happy on how successful his brother is. As Mr. Rao was telling his story he would stop at one point and say this same saying, it seem as if he wanted Ram to know he was not lying about what happen to his brother or it just could of been that he wanted Ram to serve him some more scotch. It is surprising that Ram actually was interested in this story because before all he wanted to do was just leave and go home, but I also got interested in the story too because I got mad every time Mr. Rao would pause. I think Mr. Rao would say this saying a lot because Ram is probably not the first person he told this story to, and those other people would not believe him at all like Ram's lawyer Smita. I think Ram believe him because why would someone lie about something like that especially if it is their brother . The good thing that came out of this story was that Ram was able to answer the 6th question.