Mr. & Mrs. Iyer

A bus full of passengers makes its way through the hilly tracts of the southern part of India. As the bus makes its way through the hills, a riot breaks out somewhere on the route the bus is to follow. The bus is invaded by a group of Hindu fanatics. They are in search of Muslims. They undress one by one the male passengers of the bus to find out who among them are Muslims. As they go about doing this, one passenger, presumably in a bid to save all the passengers of the bus, cries out: ‘Hum sab Hindu hain.’ (‘We are all Hindus.’) It is at this moment that a male passenger (named Cohen), seated at the rear end of the bus, interjects: ‘No, not all are Hindus – they are not Hindus.’ And he points at an old couple seated in the left hand corner of the bus: ‘They are Muslims – they are not Hindus.’ The old couple is dragged out of the bus, never to be seen again. When asked later why he did such a thing, the visibly dejected and crestfallen Cohen answers: ‘They would have caught me. I am a Jew. I do not have a foreskin.’