I saved the scariest mask for last. Remember the cartoonist-turned Hitler-loving political leader who started the Mumbai riots a while back? That’s Bal.

My Bal Thackeray mask was so scary that one of my coworkers fell over on the floor and screamed when I jumped around the corner wearing it and shouted boo. Or maybe it was because no one here knows what Halloween is, and were therefore not expecting random masked people to jump out from behind corners and scream boo.

But Bal sure scares me. Especially since he’s so against celebrating western holidays that he sends thugs to rough up employees at Archie’s Card Shops every February for selling Valentines cards. Luckily there are no Shiv Sena in my office, or I’da been in trouble. It’s probably a very good thing that it wasn’t until around 2am that I found out one of my coworkers lives across the street from Bal Thackeray, and I had not only the necessary rescources to go trick-or treating as Bal Thackeray, but Bal’s home address. The first episode of my show might have ended in the hospital.

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