Shekhar Natarajan

She's my age, two years elder to me.

And so they told her, like, you know, she has to take this hypertension injection, which will help her, like, calm down her hypertension problems.

I'd never heard of an injection in India for one and a half lakh, which is $2,000.

It seems like outrageous money, by the way.

So I said, hey, like, and she was worried, like, you know, like, why should I take it?

Like, it's so expensive.

Like, I don't even, like, I don't want to live in here.

Who the fuck cares?

So I'm standing in the queue and I force her to take the injection.

I said, you're not dying on me because everyone else is dying on me.

Because we grew up, the way we grew up, I'll tell you the way we grew up.

So I used to wear black shoes and she used to wear white shoes.

And we used to flip-flop the shoes because we couldn't afford the shoes.

So that closed VR.

And I was standing in front of the queue and there was a guy sitting in front of me.

And he was asked to pay 60 lakhs, which is $100,000.

And the fear they were putting in that guy is like, we can make that person live if you paid 60 lakh rupees.

And I look at that person, and I know for a fact that he cannot afford 60 lakhs.

So this notion, this fantasy of longevity and we want to live long is all predicated on the fact that we can economically survive.

I know there's talk about universal blah, blah, blah play.