Episode 6 Baronial Class.

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Episode 6: Baronial Class.

Dear Ms Fussy Zaroor,


After receiving your missive, I found myself plunged into a state of profound introspection. Here I stand: a former street urchin of decidedly plebeian provenance, catapulted by the whimsical caprices of fate into the ostensibly civilised world, yet forever carrying the indelible passport of the so-called Cattle Class. 


And still, in moments of audacious reverie, I dare to fantasise about composing prose in impeccable Tharoorian English.

What an exquisitely improbable Oxymoron. It is rather like expecting a bullock cart to compete in a Formula One Grand Prix, or inviting a village scarecrow to deliver the keynote address at a symposium on haute couture. 

Yet hope, being gloriously impervious to ridicule, continues to whisper that one day even a rustic soul might coax a 'sesquipedalian' sonnet from the depths of an overworked dictionary.

Behold the most preposterous metamorphosis of our times: a humble denizen of the so-called Cattle Class audaciously attempting to compose in what may now be christened the exalted dialect of the Baronial Class.


Ms. Fussy Zaroor, might I prevail upon you to apprise Saar, a top Celebrity of Baronial Class, of this momentous act of nomenclatural alchemy? A spontaneous renaming ceremony has just transpired within the confines of this very epistle. 

Though history may not record it as an occasion on which a bovine passport was indeed miraculously exchanged for a baronial coat of arms.

(Pankaj  खन्ना)


Urban gardener, rustic cook. Music enthusiast. Curious blogger since 2009. Cyclist for over five decades. Word lover: Epeolater. Anagram addict. Punster with pen in hand, pun in mind, and a pan in the heart/hearth. Steam-engine devotee: a ferroequinophile. Avid avian watcher. Magic-square aficionado. Retired mathematics teacher and an apprentice Lexicomedian.

Also a humble denizen of 'Cattle Class' with anagrammatic 'latest calcs' in the field of Lexicomedy.( Calcs= Calculations.)

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Foot Notes and Foot Prints by Pak Jan:


Pak Jan is absolutely livid with Pankaj for vetoing her special Lexytoon on Baronial Class—which, through the perfectly respectable alchemy of anagrammatics, emerges as Albino Rascals.

She maintains that the Lexytoon was not merely a cartoon but a baronially sanctioned work of albino-rascally genius.

Pankaj, however, has summarily consigned it to the Lexicomedy dustbin.

Pak Jan is now contemplating a constitutional amendment to the Lexytoon Act, under which any blogger found suppressing a perfectly legitimate anagram shall be sentenced to three consecutive readings of his own Tharoorian prose—without a dictionary, a thesaurus, or even a cup of tea.

The CEO of Lexicon Media has also threatened to change her startup's name to Albino Rascals & Co., just to prove a point.

And you still thought anagramming—or, heaven forbid, Lexicomedy—was a cakewalk!

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