The CAT I can’t catch!

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The average weight of group of 8 girls is 50kg. If 2 girls Raani and Savita replace Puspa and Kavita, the new average weight becomes 48kg. The weight of Puspa= weight of Kavita and the weight of Raani=weight of Savita. Another girl Tisha, is included in the group and the new average weight becomes 48kg. Now given that weight of Tisha = weight of Raani. Find the weight of Puspa?Nah! I don’t want you to rack your brains for finding how much Puspa weighs! But if your gray matter sparks at such problems and by god’s grace if you are gifted enough to read and understand the most incongruous and finicky English passages!!(The good words are just decorations ;-P)Welcome aboard!

You are definitely talented enough to hunt the much coveted CAT, however if you believe that your thinking ball is flaccid and their is a need to burn some brain fat, you can cough up twenty grands and join some of the finest training centres spread all across the map. Adopting the same cult I joined a very reputed guidance centre in Manipal with a blind hope that someday I shall slay the mighty CAT but it’s almost one year and I haven’t even started. The hunting season is fast approaching and day by day, hour by hour the clouds of hope are fading away!Nonetheless, I thought maybe I can exploit the perks which are provided in this country to the citizens whose ancestors were browbeaten and subjugated. Yes I belong to OBC! And I am least ashamed of it. Why!? Simple just because I care more about myself, why trouble your head by listening to those “equality theorems” Anyways not to lean away from the subject matter, my all hopes were crushed when I just couldn’t get my OBC certificate only because I saw myself standing in a queue of 600 people all having same mentality as me! Damn the population!

Heartbroken and dejected I just watch the humble CAT wagging its tail, teasing and flirting with my ego. I don’t averse the perseverance and diligence it demands, nothing in this world is born out of pure luck and I very well realise that but what if the hunter doesn’t want to shoot the arrow? What if I just don’t give a damn about how much Puspa weighs? Clouds of confusion and fear of failure haunts my judgement, however I definitely realise that their is nothing is this world so perfect and difficult that it should be left without trying! After all this CAT is just “too big a target to miss” what say?!!

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