What the Heck?!!

Jai ho…!! Poor cow or buffalo!! At least they should have wasted the milk on real Rahul once he was back in India after his Holidays.

Photo - Rediff (Babu/Reuters)

Photo - Sakal

Read about this in today’s Sakal. People in Nagpur got two frogs married to please the Monsoon to arrive, in short "band bajwa diya".

One of the heights of Superstition!!

Poor monsoon was waiting for this divine wedding of “made in heaven jodi” so that he could finally arrive!!

Or, People are thinking “why only we should suffer through marriage…let the frogs bear this, too”?.?

Bechare Mendhak!! I hope the lady frog don’t start harassing the gentlemen for a long holiday tour.

BTW, the guy in cut-out figure in 1st pic is known as most eligible bachelor of India, huh?

Any frog..i mean any Girl Reading...??

Good one

Whoever's it is, great creativity.

My Dear Activa

Finally they (RTO) picked my dear Activa!! For parking her in P1 zone on 20th April.

And I’m glad it happened. I was frustrated for first five minutes as it happened for first time. But optimism you see. I had a chance to see personally how this works. Its fun only till it’s happening with others.

Well, here is a tip (especially for girls) - If the pickers gang try to scare you of knotty, complicated process to get your beloved vehicle back and say that the process will sweep u of a good amount, don’t give a damn.

As I caught them catching my vehicle, they chased me instead of me doing that. I was left with two pay options Rs.100 or Rs.150, later with a receipt. After some bargain, just to check, I picked Rs. 100 option. The picker hopped back happily to his gang.

Later I said I will pay 150. As I said this, in a matter of second they all fled and advised me to get my vehicle from the centre!! J

It’s true that - 100 Divided by a Gang - is just too negligible amount to name it as corruption but at least that amount won’t end up sponsoring anything outlaw that it shouldn’t.

At the centre, after some consultation, I decided to pay off with a receipt whatever may be the amount as I didn’t had vehicle papers with me (one guy there said it would cost me around 500 bucks and offered to settle it at 250, again receipt less). I had to disappoint him too.

Final outcome was, I didn’t pay 500 or 250 but 150 with a reciept. To my surprise, I was not even asked for license, papers are far away.

You must have gone through all this, and may have had different experiences…mine was bit trouble less but full of future guidelines.

He is an Artist !!!

I was in my home when i could hear spellbinding sounds from Shehnai. I thought it was some function somewere, and they have took effort to play records of Ustad Bismillah Khan.

I came in porch just to breathe in some fresh air and was spellbound again to find this beared man in front of main gate playing that shehnai in actual along with his "naati" (as he called him).

My sis n me couldn't hold on but meet him and give him some words of appreciation and take a pic too.

So artistic, so hard working but much more down to earth, the duo from Karnataka. One must have never thought from ancient India that artist will have too wander in scrotching sun and give free treat to everybody's ear and not get even noticed!!

I wanted to tell him to pass on his art to next generation, but then I thought, for what?

Guru on Swiss

3-4 days ago, I had a little E-mail conversation with Mr. Gurumurthy over Swiss bank issue.

(Remember R. Madhavan from film Guru?? Same in real)

Here is the abstract of article –

".....Advani has only questioned why the Manmohan government is not acting now [in March 2009] in tandem with the West which has begun crusading against secret banking. Only now the West has turned against secret bank funds....."

I Asked – 

 --> If west had not paid any heed to this issue (openly) and if there were 
no recession, then was it so that Advani Jee had not taken up the 
issue as an agenda?

I, like many others, think that Swiss Issue should be taken very 
seriously and should be cleared as early and as clearly possible.

On this, he said –

à I had written in the first one as to how my effort (related to Swiss bank) of 1987 was aborted by arresting me. 

It is not easy to make Swiss banks to unlock their secrets. It means compelling the Swiss government to change their law. 

It would be possible only if the West exerted pressure on the Swiss. 

The West has begun doing only now. 

Otherwise we can raise the issue, but that will be only a propaganda.

We cannot succeed. Now we can, if the government does something effective in collaboration with the West.    ß

Well, I agree with him that getting information out of Swiss and acting on it is a bit of Herculean task.

Now that the western countries have started hunting for bank a/c and names, Swiss Govt has agreed to expose (only on demand) the list of account holders and related details.

It’s just worthless to ask that why any previous Govt. did not ask for Swiss exposure.

Also, as we know, many of these themselves hold a Swiss A/C!