Obliged to Dr ManjuLakshmi -a renowned fartolgist and researcher....
Apr 22, 2010
Apr 5, 2010
Murphy's day out......!!!
Heavy rains and thunder with dark clouds suddenly looming and this poor guy getting caught in the rain suddenly… My car refused to start and I panicked.. Tried my skills to get the machine run and when failed call up my mechanic who is far away and a bit drunk… tried all the possible rescue numbers and then at last get the 24 hours rescue and emergency team of the most trusted Maruthi dealer in town…
I explain the nature of the problem ( symptoms rather) and after which comes the assurance we are there sir.. in 10 minutes… one hour later and after some 231 thunder and lighting flashes later, I call them and they are still 10 minutes away.. finally a group of three guys (young teens who looked dead tired) arrive and one of them come out, tries his bit, comes out and announces to a waiting me…
It is a break down…
I knew it and hence didn’t find any news value in it…
So… I ask…
Don’t you know any house near by?....He asks…
Why? I get tense again…
No… we don’t have the tools.. the head of the 24 hours emergency and rescue team tells me without a bit of shame…
What you mean?.. I said…
He meant what he said.. they are an awesome threesome who is on a drive on a rainy evening with some other mission… an idiot with his car that got stuck some where on the road is the last of their problems…
You have a rope? He asks me…
I would have asked him whether he is so ashamed that he wanted to commit suicide but didn’t ask ( for obvious reasons)..
Again…. This time almost crying… I ask…. why?
So that we can tie it and take it to your home…
pat comes the seasoned reply...
How will I have a rope my dear…. ? I ask in shock..
He didn’t reply but had it written on his face that those jokers who drive around in cars have to carry at least a rope, big and strong enough to pull your car…
I don’t have a rope.. I take them to IBS where I work, where I know there is a long rope.. we get back , they tie it and then drag the car to my home.. we had almost reached and as I thank Murphy for having stopped his dance, comes the climax….
The rescue car refuses to move… the team try and try and finally they accept defeat.. I pray to Lord Murphy to spare me and let me get back home… the rescue car starts and some how my car is pushed into my car porch…
I try to advise them.. the F*&^%$$ng Marketing Professor that I am…
It is unbelievable that mechanics of your firm couldn’t do this… I guess this is a minor work…
He smiles at me and it flashed more powerful than all the 231 lightning flashes.... he then told me that secret… we are not mechanics sir… we are just trainees.. and I joined just last week…
Amen....I said... !!
I explain the nature of the problem ( symptoms rather) and after which comes the assurance we are there sir.. in 10 minutes… one hour later and after some 231 thunder and lighting flashes later, I call them and they are still 10 minutes away.. finally a group of three guys (young teens who looked dead tired) arrive and one of them come out, tries his bit, comes out and announces to a waiting me…
It is a break down…
I knew it and hence didn’t find any news value in it…
So… I ask…
Don’t you know any house near by?....He asks…
Why? I get tense again…
No… we don’t have the tools.. the head of the 24 hours emergency and rescue team tells me without a bit of shame…
What you mean?.. I said…
He meant what he said.. they are an awesome threesome who is on a drive on a rainy evening with some other mission… an idiot with his car that got stuck some where on the road is the last of their problems…
You have a rope? He asks me…
I would have asked him whether he is so ashamed that he wanted to commit suicide but didn’t ask ( for obvious reasons)..
Again…. This time almost crying… I ask…. why?
So that we can tie it and take it to your home…
pat comes the seasoned reply...
How will I have a rope my dear…. ? I ask in shock..
He didn’t reply but had it written on his face that those jokers who drive around in cars have to carry at least a rope, big and strong enough to pull your car…
I don’t have a rope.. I take them to IBS where I work, where I know there is a long rope.. we get back , they tie it and then drag the car to my home.. we had almost reached and as I thank Murphy for having stopped his dance, comes the climax….
The rescue car refuses to move… the team try and try and finally they accept defeat.. I pray to Lord Murphy to spare me and let me get back home… the rescue car starts and some how my car is pushed into my car porch…
I try to advise them.. the F*&^%$$ng Marketing Professor that I am…
It is unbelievable that mechanics of your firm couldn’t do this… I guess this is a minor work…
He smiles at me and it flashed more powerful than all the 231 lightning flashes.... he then told me that secret… we are not mechanics sir… we are just trainees.. and I joined just last week…
Amen....I said... !!
Mar 24, 2010
Mar 17, 2010
Mayawati- Dalit to Daulat putri
Even as the noice over the multi-crore garland gifted to BSP chief Mayawati at a rally in Lucknow is up and tonight chat show hosts are yet to debate over it, even as Suhel seth's and Ravi shankar prasad's ( not forgeting Digvijay singh's and Vinod Mehta's) havent yet put on their make up to start for the TV studio's.....an audacious BSP has gifted multi megalomaniac Mayawati with yet another cash garland (this time worth Rs 18 lakh as the notice was just a night and the goons and brigades have to come back to Lucknow with the weekly hafta).... the question that balles is......Now what?
Media reports said."The Opposition has objected to Mayawati's garland and are making it an issue. BSP is very angry about all these allegations being made against Mayawati. We will continue to garland Mayawati with currency note garlands," thundered BSP leader Nasimuddin Siddiqui at a crowded press conference.
I agree with him 200%....In a country where in the name of democracy when we can elect jokers, nincompoops , the haughty , dynastic princes, crooks, nanogenerians and gang lords, why not a Mayawati?
Mayawati should but be appreciated for one thing- nauseating though, her public display of (what other politicians do in secret) wealth that they have (obviously) made through kick backs' hafta and havala, is a shock for others... not for the public at large but for the politician who is now panicking that people will suspect them as well.. after all if a simple UP CM can amass such wealth in small span of time, (the public will start thinking), how much would have the long time rulers (who now speak atop the hills of morality) accumulated in the last 60 years plus? Now that is a question that is making the politician panic..Now the display is vulgar, not the amassing...
Will it be followed up? Will she be made to answer?.......we know the answer and hence the public is just as cool as ever.. We, the average Indian has seen it all...
As of now, the Dalit putri has proved more to be a Daulat putri.....
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