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Achha, your Ammi's extra elaichi chai—that one detail got me right here, yaar. My own baba used to say the same thing about the paperwork after 1971: the medal comes quick, but the pension? Haan, that takes a whole lifetime of waiting. And we all know whose sons and daughters are left standing in those queues—never the ones with connections in Writers' Buildings, that's for sure.
Arre, you've touched the very nerve, yaar. My own bade bhai served in the artillery, and I've seen that same quiet — the chai with extra elaichi is a language no pension file can speak. Aur bhai, sach kahoo, if a market vendor settles a dispute in five minutes, why do official files take years to move for those who gave everything? Bas, the delay has its own victims, and we're too busy counting papers instead of people.