NEW DELHI, Sept. 26 -- With all the skirmishes going on between the governors of the different states, especially those ruled by the opposition and the elected representatives, it wasn't too much of a surprise when one of them received a call, late at night. "Hello!" said the Governor, weary with a battle he had fought during the day with the chief minister, "Who is this?"

"The Queen!" said a voice with a British accent.

"The late queen? But you are dead, your majesty!"

"As dead as you are alive your excellency!"

"What do you mean by that?" asked the governor gruffly, "I'm not dead!"

"You are supposed to play dead Mr Governor, like I did for more than seventy years!"

"How can I play dead, when these rascals are in the House, led by ...