The cotton cotton magic trick in abundance by Doel Sengupta

Rakesh works really hard in the cotton  factory. Each day he takes home Rs 2 lakh and his work is paramount. He sits atop a high chair spinning looms all about.

Rakesh is not just a cotton loomer but the treasurer of the place that does the cotton cotton magic trick for the whole world on behalf of Santa Claus.

Rakesh has a brother Om. Om has direct access to Santa Claus and his biggest mission is to spread the love of cotton to the whole world and of course there is Lover and there is Honey.

They really love each other. They love Om and they love Rakesh. But their greatest love is Santa Claus and his fighter elf Rudolph.

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is one of the greatest magicians in the world and Santa's perfect fighter elf. He has direct access to the magic loom that Lover and Honey use and whose machinations Om is trying to decipher.

Rakesh is stress free. The cotton cotton magic trick has taken over the whole world and all the children enjoy cotton these days, cotton candy and cotton clothes.

Cotton for Rudolph. Cotton for Honey.

One night Om creeps into the cotton cotton magic trick factory and finds Lover and Honey there. Lover has Honey's hand in the hand of the divine and they are practising a magic trick with a candle.

"Is this how the cotton cotton magic trick is done?" wonders Om.

He calls up Rakesh and puts Rudolph on the call in secret.

He presses Rakesh for answers for two hours one dark night about the cotton cotton magic trick place. Rudolph finally pipes in "Ho Ho Ho!"

That is the end of the interrogation.

It is pouring heavily. It is raining cats and dogs outside and Om has to go home to Rakesh.

Rakesh serves him a pot roast with butter rice and doesn't prod him at all about the irritating interrogation but Om is determined. He has to figure out the cotton cotton magic trick.

How can one man spread cotton like this all over the world?

Om starts following Santa around.

What is the cotton cotton magic trick? He tears his hair out over it.

That year Christmas is a grand affair and after 7 months of Om following Santa around a very pricey gift is sent to Om all gift-wrapped and tied in three colours of ribbons.

Om is excited. He opens the gift. It's a cotton loom.

Om smiles. He understands immediately. Santa's gift is divine. There is no replacement for hard work. Work is worship and that is the great warship.

One man, one solid man, Santa spread cotton to the world through sheer hard work. Magic is hard work.

And Om uses his loom for the first time that beautiful cold Christmas night.