The Family Planning Programme of Facebook Friendship (A Satirical Essay by Dr. Mukesh Aseemit) Lately, I’ve been in deep emotional distress — there are a few friend requests lying pending in my list that I simply can’t accept. It feels as if I’m the lone rejected groom left standing in the great “swayamvar” of friendship — a classic “one pomegranate and a hundred sick people” situation — while all the other Arjunas have already fired their arrows into Facebook’s server. Frankly, watching this spectacle reminds me of Ghalib’s sigh — “For comforting the heart, this thought isn’t half bad.” But