If India is worried that if it does not attend the Peace Prize Committee will take umbrage here is the best solution. This has been tested by all school boys ( about school girls I don't know) and all the 'sarkari babus' and found never to fail. Take casual leave. Casual leave is something special which only school boys and sarkari b...abus know. It can be taken without any prior notice or sanction. Whenever one feels not in a mood to attend the drudgery of class-room or the musty smell of accumulated files, shoot out a casual leave application. No one can question it. There are standard reasons also. The most common one is 'suffering from fever and headache'. The only problem is that this fever business can be tested. In the case of the school boy if the mother takes it into her mind to put the hand on the brow of her son and declare that he is as cool as the bottom of a water pot then off you go to school. Modern mother may take the help of the cursed instrument thermometer. In case of babus these problems do not arise. But the best reason to give is diarrhea. No body has so far gone to the lavatory with the sufferer to test the consistency of the stool.(
