The violence of a polite man

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Panduram ghoshal was sitting on the table awaiting his order of tea with meek delight. Order came with a biscuit less. A repeated request for reimbursement of biscuits when fall unheeded can often cause a riot in a tea stall. But panduram is not your average man. He is a polite man. He thanked God for an opportunity to curb his greed and moved on to sip the tea. But panduram was also politely particular about the sweetness of tea and that was not for negotiation. When the request for extra sugar met the state of the crumbled and inadequate biscuit, panduram firmly got up from the chair and affirmed so with a more than intended loud thud. 

He folded the newspaper as he stepped out of the shop. Panduram returned in 13 minutes with two kg of sugar and forced it on the hands of the tea shop owner, with overtly curt gratitude, and insisted that the owner is a true

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