श्रावण १०, २०७७ / July 25, 2020
Several moons ago, in the valley of Kathmandu, used to live a sage named Awkward. The sage was forgotten until now for they were ungracefully inarticulate in their speech and in writing. Curiously, only select other people outside the norm of society could understand the sage. No scholar of the time had been able to explain the mysterious behaviours of the group, which later came to be known as awkward behaviour, after the sage.
As the Covid-19 lockdown forced many people into the kitchen, a century old manuscript belonging to the group was discovered. It was found behind the seldom used jar of asafoetida. “It came to me in my dream”, says the discoverer. “I dreamt of a cat sleeping inside the jar of asafoetida. I woke up next morning to check the jar and there it was.” The animal, with its inexplicable behaviours, is believed to be the favourite of sage Awkward.
Kathmandu has since seen a rise in believers of the sage. Anthropologists are of the opinion that the belief is reinforced by absence of social interaction during lockdown. The discoverer, now officially an awkward person, retains the right of the manuscript and thus, unsolicited emails and followings. Although unverified, it has been reported that the resurgent group of followers call themselves ‘Awkult, the Awkward Mystics’. The self-claimed mystics organize intermittent meetings to interpret pirated copies of the manuscript they call ‘The Manifesto of Awkult’.
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