Gluttony Personified

Man was a hoarder and accumulator. But with time, he changed too. Be it the Earth or skies or someone's home-delivered food, man became greedy for it all

- RAJEEV NARAYAN

"As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on man, all he has done valiantly is forfeited. As long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to total naught." - Pope Gregory I

Enough has been written about Global Warming, Climate Change and other calamitous fallouts of mankind's deadly flirtation with everything nature has to offer, to quench man's insatiable need for more. I shall write a bit on that in the paragraphs below - including some very red flags raised by S&P Global Ratings - but let's begin with the subliminal greed and material gluttony that has turned us into less than humans, and man into something less than man.

We begin with one of the National Capital's more expensive and educated localities (the word 'educated' used here is open and susceptible to interpretations and hypothesis on many fronts), which showed me yet another glimpse of what happens when the curtains go up and the innards hiding behind reveal how man is becoming less than man.

Back to this educated colony, where one Mrs. Bahl, in a bid to entertain her guests from the United Kingdom, struggled to order 'home delivery food' from the neighbourhood club as repeated calls from her mobile device went unanswered. With numb fingers and her stomach growling and snarling for sustenance, Mrs. Bahl finally succeeded. Food ordered and payment made, Bahls & Co waited for the bell to chirp, announcing the beginning of indulgence. The chirp never came.

Troubled by the elusive chirp, Mrs. Bahl made more unanswered phone calls. She eventually trudged to the 'guilty' club to fret, to fume, and hopefully (and finally), to consume. "The food was delivered over an hour back" was the stony reply thrown back at her. "But I never got any", she retorted.

Arguing and Barking Later... A lot of back and forth, arguing and barking from humans and stomach(s) later, the Sherlocks concluded that the food had indeed been delivered. But where the hell was it?