Raghu Krishnan Aug 19, 2013, 12.00AM IST
Housemaid's knee, the only ailment which the 19th-century hypochondriac turned humorist Jerome K Jerome found he had not contracted after skimming through an encyclopedia of diseases in the British Museum, may have just got aggravated in today's Bangalore.
The other day, my housemaid Mary, who mops and sweeps various apartments including mine for a living, told me that she and her friends had, instead of putting their feet up for a well-earned rest after completing their chores, stood in a lengthy queue to collect their UIDAI Aadhaar card from the neighbourhood post office. However, when those standing in the queue finally reached the counter, they were told to come back the next day since the official tasked with identifying the would-be recipient and handing over the Aadhaar card had not turned up for work.