Q&A Slumdog millionaire blog #7 Hold on to your buttons

     In this chapter Hold on to your buttons, Ram tells Smita about his story as a bartender. When Ram served as a bartender at Jimmy's Bar and Restaurant, he had to deal with a lot of drunkards and he made a classification about all the drunkards which were by animal. It was horses first who drank the most, then asses who babble and cry over more whisky rum or peg, dogs who will start an argument over anything and then pigs who vomit after drinking their last peg. There was another bartender who worked at the bar and her name was Rosie which entices alot of customers to buy more expensive pegs by bending over and showing her cleavage. I found it weird when Ram makes a conscious decision not to meet up with his best friend Salim because they've been through a alot of things together. Ram only has his mid shifts from twelve AM to one thirty AM and usually drunkards who fall asleep are taken outside into a taxi somewhere else. One night a lone customer refuses to budge and moans out words "My dear brother, my dear brother." every two minutes while on his fifth peg. Ram asks him about what happened to his brother and the drunkard named Prakash Rao, who is the Managing Director of Surya Industries. The biggest manufacturer of buttons in India. Then Prakasha Rao tells Ram about his story about his brother Arvind. At first Arvind was the managing Director of Surya Industries and then employed his brother with the sales division and eventually Arvind had confidence in Prakash, so he promoted him as Head of International Sales and sent him to New York. But then Prakash met this girl named Julie, which he thought was a normal girl at first but then she tells him to steal some money from the button company. Sadly, he follows her orders and his brother finds out that he stole about a million rupees and calls Prakash names, also abusing him as a punishment. Prakash finds out that Julie does voodoo and basically makes a voodoo doll out of his brother's hair and button which allowed Prakash to get revenge on his brother. As he inflicted pain to Arvind, people think he's becoming insane and was sent to a mental institutional hospital. Prakash realized that what he was doing was wrong but before he can save his brother, Arvind was killed in the aslyum. After telling the story, Prakash gets a heart attack.Smita thinks Ram could be lying about that story but then she plays the remote on the TV and the quiz show begins. Prem Kumar asks Ram "What is the capital of Papua New Guinea? Is it a) Port Louis, b) Port-au-Prince, c) Port Moresby or d) Port Adelaide?" Ram answers C and wins one-hundred thousand rupees on the sixth question.