14th Nov 2008
Hey everyone..just in case you are hungry, just in case you feel a little southie in your tongue,..check out ITC Grand Maratha's restaurant "ITC Dakshin"..completely authentic south indian food..heaven!!!
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Mr X and Me
13th Nov 2008
Long Long ago, once upon a time there was a Russian traveller. Forget about the name because we will take another century and high level hybrid genetic mutation to be able to spell that russian's name.
Lets call him "X".
So, this X landed in India to explore the country, at that time more densely populated with trees, tigers, leopards. Yet, India, minus the Cyber giant tag, intrigued him very much, or so he says. His account made him go into history books. So,what did he like about India?
Thats the point I tried to explore.
X was very fascinated by "Paan". He happened to meet an English lady whose husband was with East India Company. So he asked her, "What is this red-blood like thing that every man and woman seems to be chewing all the time?"
The lady explained, "It is 'the paan'. Its not red in colour. Its actually beetle leaf wrapped inwards 4-5 times with some nuts/tobacco, and some limestone to give the red colour". Very impressed with the description, X asked if he could have one.
The lady wrapped 2 paans and gave one to X. What he felt, in his own words, "My head jolted and swirled.It was spinning.My tongue felt dry, bitter. Everything around me zoomed. I felt nauseated and felt I would collapse."
I dont know what the English lady gave him, but this seems more like describing an indigestion problem. Ironically, paan is good for digestion.
Anyways, I too feel the same way about paan with a difference though. I feel the same way for the "paan spittle". My feelings are worse than X's. Sometimes I think all these spitters are an organization out to terrorize others who dont spit. On the face of it, schizophrenia is more serious than indigestion. Its time they put my name in current affairs.
Its a mystery why X did not include paan spittle in his account. May be, he got used to it. I will never buy the story that people did not spit in erstwhile India. Worse, may be he too started to spit. You know, be a roman in rome kind of stuff..
Next time somebody asks you what you are likely find in all corners if India, you can be safe from being labelled ignorant. Just say 'paan spittle'. Tell them, everywhere, from staircases to lifts, from buildings to monuments, from trains to train stations, from autos to buses, from every old hoarding to a new one, 'Spit' rules!! So much for our colourful culture and traditions!!
Long Long ago, once upon a time there was a Russian traveller. Forget about the name because we will take another century and high level hybrid genetic mutation to be able to spell that russian's name.
Lets call him "X".
So, this X landed in India to explore the country, at that time more densely populated with trees, tigers, leopards. Yet, India, minus the Cyber giant tag, intrigued him very much, or so he says. His account made him go into history books. So,what did he like about India?
Thats the point I tried to explore.
X was very fascinated by "Paan". He happened to meet an English lady whose husband was with East India Company. So he asked her, "What is this red-blood like thing that every man and woman seems to be chewing all the time?"
The lady explained, "It is 'the paan'. Its not red in colour. Its actually beetle leaf wrapped inwards 4-5 times with some nuts/tobacco, and some limestone to give the red colour". Very impressed with the description, X asked if he could have one.
The lady wrapped 2 paans and gave one to X. What he felt, in his own words, "My head jolted and swirled.It was spinning.My tongue felt dry, bitter. Everything around me zoomed. I felt nauseated and felt I would collapse."
I dont know what the English lady gave him, but this seems more like describing an indigestion problem. Ironically, paan is good for digestion.
Anyways, I too feel the same way about paan with a difference though. I feel the same way for the "paan spittle". My feelings are worse than X's. Sometimes I think all these spitters are an organization out to terrorize others who dont spit. On the face of it, schizophrenia is more serious than indigestion. Its time they put my name in current affairs.
Its a mystery why X did not include paan spittle in his account. May be, he got used to it. I will never buy the story that people did not spit in erstwhile India. Worse, may be he too started to spit. You know, be a roman in rome kind of stuff..
Next time somebody asks you what you are likely find in all corners if India, you can be safe from being labelled ignorant. Just say 'paan spittle'. Tell them, everywhere, from staircases to lifts, from buildings to monuments, from trains to train stations, from autos to buses, from every old hoarding to a new one, 'Spit' rules!! So much for our colourful culture and traditions!!
Monday, November 3, 2008
MTI
3rd Nov 2008
MTI
You know Engliss is a bhery dipphicult langubhage. Looks very Zimblle though.Should go to an
engliss medium isskool to learn it.It is the bijiness langubhage of the wurald.I am lerrning.Yee,Bee,Cee,Dee...Yen,Yum, yand all.BHat?? bhat did you say jest now? bhat is MTI?
MOTHER TONGUE INFLUENCE
MTI
You know Engliss is a bhery dipphicult langubhage. Looks very Zimblle though.Should go to an
engliss medium isskool to learn it.It is the bijiness langubhage of the wurald.I am lerrning.Yee,Bee,Cee,Dee...Yen,Yum, yand all.BHat?? bhat did you say jest now? bhat is MTI?
MOTHER TONGUE INFLUENCE
Sporty Enough R U?
2nd Nov 2008
I was looking at this pic of this woman..Sarah Palin..and somebody was telling me she is a hockey mom.That set me thinking.
Mom who plays hockey..mom who can teach her kids how to play hockey..mom who watches hockey
on TV..mom who..ok..wow..
But,
what has hockey or mommys or hockey mommys got to do with elections? , I fail to understand.
But,
my being a so dumb will not affect the American Presidential Elections.Lucky guys they are
:-)
Back home in India, I found a serious problem. The President of India, Pratibha Patil's life
was under threat from some anti-national elements, while she was visiting Pune recently.
Aww, with all due respect to the Jai Maharashtra spirit, Pune is in Maharashtra and Pratibha
Patil is quite the Marathi Manoos, but thats a different story.
So, as I was reading this piece posted on a news website, I happened to scroll down to
comments section, where a reader cheekily commented, "Who knows her(Pratibha Patil)??
hahaha".
Well, of course, she is not cricket mom or crickety mom or whatever.
And then, may be Mrs Gandhi can be the "hide n seek mom", and Mr Raj Thakerey can be the
"Catch me if you can dad".
Mr Advani and Mr Chiranjeevi can be the "marathon (read Rath yatra) dads", although
Chiranjeevi needs some real practice.
Mr Somnath Chaterjee can be the "dog in the (wrong) bone dad". Mr Laloo can be the "cricket
dad", given the fact that he has the honour of having a cricket team right inside his house.
Mr Modi and Ms Banerjee can be the "Catch-Throw Dad-Mom" respectively.
Ms Mayawati can take the title of the "refree mom". I coudnt find anything else for her :-).
Add to this list we have a whole Lok Sabha of circus dads and moms.
One of my dear friends is pregnant and has me worried. She wants to be a "Tennis mom", and I
dont want her to be the next president !!!
I was looking at this pic of this woman..Sarah Palin..and somebody was telling me she is a hockey mom.That set me thinking.
Mom who plays hockey..mom who can teach her kids how to play hockey..mom who watches hockey
on TV..mom who..ok..wow..
But,
what has hockey or mommys or hockey mommys got to do with elections? , I fail to understand.
But,
my being a so dumb will not affect the American Presidential Elections.Lucky guys they are
:-)
Back home in India, I found a serious problem. The President of India, Pratibha Patil's life
was under threat from some anti-national elements, while she was visiting Pune recently.
Aww, with all due respect to the Jai Maharashtra spirit, Pune is in Maharashtra and Pratibha
Patil is quite the Marathi Manoos, but thats a different story.
So, as I was reading this piece posted on a news website, I happened to scroll down to
comments section, where a reader cheekily commented, "Who knows her(Pratibha Patil)??
hahaha".
Well, of course, she is not cricket mom or crickety mom or whatever.
And then, may be Mrs Gandhi can be the "hide n seek mom", and Mr Raj Thakerey can be the
"Catch me if you can dad".
Mr Advani and Mr Chiranjeevi can be the "marathon (read Rath yatra) dads", although
Chiranjeevi needs some real practice.
Mr Somnath Chaterjee can be the "dog in the (wrong) bone dad". Mr Laloo can be the "cricket
dad", given the fact that he has the honour of having a cricket team right inside his house.
Mr Modi and Ms Banerjee can be the "Catch-Throw Dad-Mom" respectively.
Ms Mayawati can take the title of the "refree mom". I coudnt find anything else for her :-).
Add to this list we have a whole Lok Sabha of circus dads and moms.
One of my dear friends is pregnant and has me worried. She wants to be a "Tennis mom", and I
dont want her to be the next president !!!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Famous Five
13-Oct-2008
5 questions i dread !!
1. Where do you belong(Native place)?
I start mumbling, jumbling, fumbling, the moment this question is thrown at me. I think i am too open minded for this. I was born at a place, brought up at two other, i work somewhere else, and I have loved every place i have been to. I have thoroughly enjoyed the transition. I guess I look stupid when I answer back with a smile or a grin, or tell people that i dont know.
2. Aur batao.. Kya chal raha hai?
I hate it to the core. Its disgraceful and boring by all means. It has an advantage though..Ask me this n i will leave you alone .. :-)
3. Are you still working with 3i?
As if its sacrilege!!! ..Yes I am with 3i that is untill the next monday..
4. When are you getting married?
As if i would entertain you when i hook up with someone..
The last..
5. Hey..You are looking happy ..dont you think you have put on some..i mean a little weight recently..??
Pure terrorism i say.. I start running..in the opposite direction.
5 questions i dread !!
1. Where do you belong(Native place)?
I start mumbling, jumbling, fumbling, the moment this question is thrown at me. I think i am too open minded for this. I was born at a place, brought up at two other, i work somewhere else, and I have loved every place i have been to. I have thoroughly enjoyed the transition. I guess I look stupid when I answer back with a smile or a grin, or tell people that i dont know.
2. Aur batao.. Kya chal raha hai?
I hate it to the core. Its disgraceful and boring by all means. It has an advantage though..Ask me this n i will leave you alone .. :-)
3. Are you still working with 3i?
As if its sacrilege!!! ..Yes I am with 3i that is untill the next monday..
4. When are you getting married?
As if i would entertain you when i hook up with someone..
The last..
5. Hey..You are looking happy ..dont you think you have put on some..i mean a little weight recently..??
Pure terrorism i say.. I start running..in the opposite direction.
Friday, October 10, 2008
who d **** is alice..oooppsss...bhaujji???
10th Oct '08
Sorry guys..i had to write this..i have taken an enormous responsibility of "shristi ki raksha" from this disaster.. just saw this mother of all ****ing movie and cant wait to share some of the most innovative dialogues hindi cinema has ever produced..ok...so here we go... the opening line and the best.."yeh kahani us samay ki hai jab samay khud ek bachcha tha, infact samay tabhi paida hua tha" ..(oh yeah??)..
Next your super hero is treated with words like "pishach ki aulad"..the villian gets a better deal.. and is the "khoonkar asur"..(so i wondered ki fight kya hai !!.. )
..then there is priyanka who has been given one hell of an intro scene..yeah she drives in a stunning yellow ferrari to save the pishach ki aulad..ooops the super hero..and all steam becomes water when she opens her dialogue with .."bhaujji ne kaha tha.."...yaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwnnnnn
Not to mention the brilliant and multicoloured "woh raaz ..raazpur ke chauthi chattan ke basanti dvar ko laangh kar prapt kiya ja sakta hai"..tht deserves an oscar man...
and one for the villian..and by this time i really needed some help.."kabhi kabhi upar se sab kuch saaf nazar aata hai"..(what the **** is that suppose to mean???)
Then there is the perennial.."shrishti ki raksha ke liye"..
but on the whole i thought abhishek did a fanatstic job..he hardly spoke..thts the catch..a dumb superhero..got it?? the villian defended himself well..at least he kept saying "gustakhi maaf" throughout the torture..and bhaujji will agree with that.
:-)
Sorry guys..i had to write this..i have taken an enormous responsibility of "shristi ki raksha" from this disaster.. just saw this mother of all ****ing movie and cant wait to share some of the most innovative dialogues hindi cinema has ever produced..ok...so here we go... the opening line and the best.."yeh kahani us samay ki hai jab samay khud ek bachcha tha, infact samay tabhi paida hua tha" ..(oh yeah??)..
Next your super hero is treated with words like "pishach ki aulad"..the villian gets a better deal.. and is the "khoonkar asur"..(so i wondered ki fight kya hai !!.. )
..then there is priyanka who has been given one hell of an intro scene..yeah she drives in a stunning yellow ferrari to save the pishach ki aulad..ooops the super hero..and all steam becomes water when she opens her dialogue with .."bhaujji ne kaha tha.."...yaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwnnnnn
Not to mention the brilliant and multicoloured "woh raaz ..raazpur ke chauthi chattan ke basanti dvar ko laangh kar prapt kiya ja sakta hai"..tht deserves an oscar man...
and one for the villian..and by this time i really needed some help.."kabhi kabhi upar se sab kuch saaf nazar aata hai"..(what the **** is that suppose to mean???)
Then there is the perennial.."shrishti ki raksha ke liye"..
but on the whole i thought abhishek did a fanatstic job..he hardly spoke..thts the catch..a dumb superhero..got it?? the villian defended himself well..at least he kept saying "gustakhi maaf" throughout the torture..and bhaujji will agree with that.
:-)
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Maine Gandhi ko nahi mara..
2nd Oct'08
Maine Gandhi ko nahi maara..
I am having a pizza. Something is not right but. I am feeling kinda sick. I am eating and thinking. So i dont know which one's the culprit. Bad.. cant sue the pizza outlet :-).
if you ask me what i dread the most right now..well, it is the US elections.how and why, you might question..it scares me when people around me discuss obama and palin more than gandhi..when questions like did gandhi die on oct 2nd hit me..i feel my stomach churning.
Maine Gandhi ko nahi maara..
I am having a pizza. Something is not right but. I am feeling kinda sick. I am eating and thinking. So i dont know which one's the culprit. Bad.. cant sue the pizza outlet :-).
if you ask me what i dread the most right now..well, it is the US elections.how and why, you might question..it scares me when people around me discuss obama and palin more than gandhi..when questions like did gandhi die on oct 2nd hit me..i feel my stomach churning.
When i see enormous posters containing colorful prose in praise of raj thackerey as he goes about protecting the marathi manoos, against not a single poster of Gandhi, the pizza that i just ate, launches a desparate Quit Lalita movement..I gulp down some water and the use of "water force" crushes this uprising.
I hold Gandhi in high regard. His simplicity is his most endearing quality. Simplicity in thoughts, actions and appearance. His quest to get closer to god, his being a stickler for cleanliness, his struggle to find purity, his belief in truth, his struggle for ahimsa, his idea of satyagraha as a weapon, the value he gave to education, his detest for textbook knowledge, are all qualities, at least, i struggle to inculcate in myself.
So when people tell me gandhian ideals no longer relevant in today's contemporary society, the pizza does a "Nach Baliye" again.
I read his autobiography and was pleasantly amazed to find Gandhi ate nonveg food for a while and stole money for smoking. And he quit, only when it dawned upon him that it was doing no good to him. While today's "contemporary society" debates the ban on smoking so vehemently. And so he calls his autobiography "My Experiments with truth". How much more non preachy can anyone be? His transformation from a shy and gullible man into a strong, determined leader is truely inspiring. He spoke against every evil that exists even today.
Racism, Caste based violence, wars, socialism..give me a break, whats not relevant now? Infact, I think, the need to stand up and speak against all these issues is more so than ever before.
But strange are ways of this world..where any form of aggression gets media coverage. Only a heart breaking image of a man pleading for his life in the Gujarat riots can shake up this nation perhaps? How many movies do we have on Gandhi? On peace? On satyagraha? We have simply not understood the Mahatma.
When he says "Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility","there is no god above truth", I am left intimidated by their meaning.
So on this Oct 2nd when my colleague tells me that the moment gandhi asked to show the other cheek to a person who slaps you, he almost ruined India, I rush for the washroom..the pizza's demand for independence is now out of control.
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