Who does not want a good place that serves nice food (non-veg included) along with drinks amd that too at ecnomical rates, its an icing on the cake if such a place is close to ones home. Last Friday I had taken my pals out to one such place...
Name of the place: Satkar
Location: Hanuman Road (WE highway end), Vile Parle.
The beauty of this place is in its simplicity, its just like a no frills airline. I.e. the needed stuff is provided at apt cost. Its serves veg/non veg food from Punjabi and chinese cusines and it has a good bar.
Mind you no frills seriously!!! There are no complimentary snacks with the drinks, you would get what you order and it would be added on to your bill. Yet this place is highly econimical as the rates of all ietms are not jacked up!
The starters are very delicious. One should not miss the corn shallow fried in butter. On the chinese side the speciality is veg/chicken crispy, on the punjabi side the starters to order are paneer/chicken tikka and chicken tandoori. The main course is also very delicious but I would recommend only punjabi as I personally did not like the chinese main course as it lacks variety.
Primary draw back of this place is that the air conditioned section is quite small and on busy (saturday) nights there could be some wait time.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Restaurants in Mumbai - Sam's Kitchen
I am habituated to having tea while I smoke, One of these days my colleague and myself went down to have fags with some nice cutting chai (half cup tea at a road side stall is called cutting). Unfortunately our regular chai (tea) stall was closed.
We wandered a bit further and came to a place where we saw a tea kettle. We asked the guy there to get us chai...Walla!!! one of the most shocking things in my life happened...he asked me what kind of tea I wanted. To add to my surprise, he got a menu card with one full page dedicated to tea. There was cutting chai, masala chai, adrakwala chai, pudina wala chai, iced tea, lemon tea.....list of one page. Also the chai was served nicely in a earthen pot which just added to our delight...
Name of the place: Sam's Kitchen
Location: Opposite the railway station, Vashi. Vashi is a major station on Mumbai' harbour line railway.
There is more to this place than tea. I was impressed and took my lunch buddies there for tea. We discovered that the menu had more interesting stuff in the Indian food and chinese section. We decided to go there for lunch. the menu is well organised, the food items are not many but are well selected. In the Indian punjabi section you would find only 7-8 types of subjis, but all are unique. There are parothas stuffings of which can be customised. Cold drinks had quite rarely available delicacies like Piyush, buterscotch lassi, chocalate lassi.
While the food taste was good the presentation was even better. the parothas were neatly cut and presented in earthen plates with two small earthen bowls filled with sweet curd and ketchup as accompaniments. the lassi was served chilled in nice shapely glasses. All in all it seemed as a very good concept restuarant which focussed on serving good stuff but was not inclined to have menu that ran for pages at a stretch. nice place...
Our two complaints about the place were the lack of fans and that the quantity served was on the lower side.
We wandered a bit further and came to a place where we saw a tea kettle. We asked the guy there to get us chai...Walla!!! one of the most shocking things in my life happened...he asked me what kind of tea I wanted. To add to my surprise, he got a menu card with one full page dedicated to tea. There was cutting chai, masala chai, adrakwala chai, pudina wala chai, iced tea, lemon tea.....list of one page. Also the chai was served nicely in a earthen pot which just added to our delight...
Name of the place: Sam's Kitchen
Location: Opposite the railway station, Vashi. Vashi is a major station on Mumbai' harbour line railway.
There is more to this place than tea. I was impressed and took my lunch buddies there for tea. We discovered that the menu had more interesting stuff in the Indian food and chinese section. We decided to go there for lunch. the menu is well organised, the food items are not many but are well selected. In the Indian punjabi section you would find only 7-8 types of subjis, but all are unique. There are parothas stuffings of which can be customised. Cold drinks had quite rarely available delicacies like Piyush, buterscotch lassi, chocalate lassi.
While the food taste was good the presentation was even better. the parothas were neatly cut and presented in earthen plates with two small earthen bowls filled with sweet curd and ketchup as accompaniments. the lassi was served chilled in nice shapely glasses. All in all it seemed as a very good concept restuarant which focussed on serving good stuff but was not inclined to have menu that ran for pages at a stretch. nice place...
Our two complaints about the place were the lack of fans and that the quantity served was on the lower side.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Restaurants in Mumbai - Rama Krishna
Hi,
Am quite a foodie myself, thought it would be appropriate to share my experiences at various restaurants/food joints in Mumbai. This is the first.
Name: hotel Rama Krishna
Location: Opposite the railway station, Vile Parle (EAST). Vile Parle is a suburb on Mumbai' western railway.
Why Rama Krishna first??? Because it my most visited food joint. This place has two floors, the ground floor is non-ac and gives you the complete Udipi feeling. the first floor is air conditioned and quite suave...
South Indian and Punjabi foods are the ones primarily served here. Since this place has an Udipi origin the south Indian food is very tasty and yet very standardised. the taste of the sambar has not changed since I started going there (more than 15 years back). Am sure their standardisation of taste would beat big Mac.
Punjabi food is also quite good and standardised but the taste and menu contents are similar to most other places.
The thing that I dislike about this place (specially the ground floor) is the haste with which everything gets done. Before you take your seat, some guy would have put down glasses of water and mind you they would be exactly the same in number as the guests to be seated. The waiter would come and place the menu in your hand and expect you to order instantly. The food would arrive to your table within 3-4 minutes. When you are having your last few bites the waiter would arive and nag you into ordering chai/coffee/colddrinks...if you say no, you would have the bill on your table within a minute.
This is a good place if you are in a hurry and a very bad place for people who wish to catch up with friends over a meal.
All in all I like the place. Hope you visit, do eat the mysore masala dosa and wada sambar in south Indian and Chole Bhatoore from the Punjabi cuisine.
Am quite a foodie myself, thought it would be appropriate to share my experiences at various restaurants/food joints in Mumbai. This is the first.
Name: hotel Rama Krishna
Location: Opposite the railway station, Vile Parle (EAST). Vile Parle is a suburb on Mumbai' western railway.
Why Rama Krishna first??? Because it my most visited food joint. This place has two floors, the ground floor is non-ac and gives you the complete Udipi feeling. the first floor is air conditioned and quite suave...
South Indian and Punjabi foods are the ones primarily served here. Since this place has an Udipi origin the south Indian food is very tasty and yet very standardised. the taste of the sambar has not changed since I started going there (more than 15 years back). Am sure their standardisation of taste would beat big Mac.
Punjabi food is also quite good and standardised but the taste and menu contents are similar to most other places.
The thing that I dislike about this place (specially the ground floor) is the haste with which everything gets done. Before you take your seat, some guy would have put down glasses of water and mind you they would be exactly the same in number as the guests to be seated. The waiter would come and place the menu in your hand and expect you to order instantly. The food would arrive to your table within 3-4 minutes. When you are having your last few bites the waiter would arive and nag you into ordering chai/coffee/colddrinks...if you say no, you would have the bill on your table within a minute.
This is a good place if you are in a hurry and a very bad place for people who wish to catch up with friends over a meal.
All in all I like the place. Hope you visit, do eat the mysore masala dosa and wada sambar in south Indian and Chole Bhatoore from the Punjabi cuisine.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
My Son
Writing after a month....
last week end my son accompanied me to the temple...he does accompany me some times, so what was different last time?
At the entrance of the temple there is a shoe stand having pigeon holes to place shoes prior to entering. Normally I place my shoes on the rack and my son places his pair on top of my pair....This time around it was different, he placed his pair in a different pigeon hole....
One side of my brain told me that this meant nothing, just that he placed it in the pigeon hole closest to him...the other side refused to accept this as an explanation....my heart agreed with the latter...
I am really happy that my son (2 year 9 months old) has started to create his own identity, he has started believing that he is a separate person and needs to have his own...Also very surprisingly it saddens me that this is his first step away from me...As they say the birds grow and fly out of the nest and to my heart this felt as though the first step towards flying away...
Happy Sad combo experience indeed...
last week end my son accompanied me to the temple...he does accompany me some times, so what was different last time?
At the entrance of the temple there is a shoe stand having pigeon holes to place shoes prior to entering. Normally I place my shoes on the rack and my son places his pair on top of my pair....This time around it was different, he placed his pair in a different pigeon hole....
One side of my brain told me that this meant nothing, just that he placed it in the pigeon hole closest to him...the other side refused to accept this as an explanation....my heart agreed with the latter...
I am really happy that my son (2 year 9 months old) has started to create his own identity, he has started believing that he is a separate person and needs to have his own...Also very surprisingly it saddens me that this is his first step away from me...As they say the birds grow and fly out of the nest and to my heart this felt as though the first step towards flying away...
Happy Sad combo experience indeed...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Mumbaikars
While the mumbaikars have the knack of coming through difficult situations they also several bad traits. One of them is keeping the city unclean. There are several slogans/proverbs likes of Cleanliness is next to godliness; Clean Mumbai, Green Mumbai which absolutely make no sense to mumbaikars.
Slogan of Mumbai should be as under:
"We mumbaikars take it upon us to make sure that all corners in all public places are dirtied red by spitting gutkha, it is our responsibility to throw waste papers, gutkha wrappers and biscuit wrappers out of running trains, taxis, cars and buses. It is imperative that we open the door of our air conditioned car at all traffic signals to spit gutkha on the road"
Mumbaikars, look at what's happening to our city, we have dirtied all public places by plastic litter and dirt. Now that the rains have begun, we cannot miss the stench that this 'Kachra' is creating. We would not be able to survive like this! one day the 'kachra' is going to come into our houses and offices and choke us to our deaths; and righty so, unless we change the way we treat public places and our city in general. Couple of years back this kachra caused immense flooding in the city.
New Local trains were launched in Mumbai recently, nicely coloured in while and light purple; we made it a point to change the colour near the doors and under the windows to red within a weeks time (by spitting gutkha).
This is not done!!!Do we also do this at home???
We mumbaikars should stand up for the cleanliness of the city including the public places.
From today I have decided to boo any person spitting at public places or throwing dirt or answering natures calls on walls. I would also try to direct them to the nearest dustbin/loo.
Urge all to join me in this drive and keep our home, i.e. the city, clean.
P.s. Gutkha is a chewable mixture mainly containing tobacco, which has to be chewed and then spit as it is not potable...Kachra in local language means waste.
Slogan of Mumbai should be as under:
"We mumbaikars take it upon us to make sure that all corners in all public places are dirtied red by spitting gutkha, it is our responsibility to throw waste papers, gutkha wrappers and biscuit wrappers out of running trains, taxis, cars and buses. It is imperative that we open the door of our air conditioned car at all traffic signals to spit gutkha on the road"
Mumbaikars, look at what's happening to our city, we have dirtied all public places by plastic litter and dirt. Now that the rains have begun, we cannot miss the stench that this 'Kachra' is creating. We would not be able to survive like this! one day the 'kachra' is going to come into our houses and offices and choke us to our deaths; and righty so, unless we change the way we treat public places and our city in general. Couple of years back this kachra caused immense flooding in the city.
New Local trains were launched in Mumbai recently, nicely coloured in while and light purple; we made it a point to change the colour near the doors and under the windows to red within a weeks time (by spitting gutkha).
This is not done!!!Do we also do this at home???
We mumbaikars should stand up for the cleanliness of the city including the public places.
From today I have decided to boo any person spitting at public places or throwing dirt or answering natures calls on walls. I would also try to direct them to the nearest dustbin/loo.
Urge all to join me in this drive and keep our home, i.e. the city, clean.
P.s. Gutkha is a chewable mixture mainly containing tobacco, which has to be chewed and then spit as it is not potable...Kachra in local language means waste.
Monday, June 9, 2008
heavy rains in Mumbai
Heavy rains have hit Mumbai, quite sooner than expected...Accompanied by gusty wind blowing at 20-25 kms per hour. Something which mumbaikars have experienced rarely and possibly never on the 3rd day of the monsoons. Year by year the climate is getting harsher...winters have got colder, summers are hotter and monsoons are more fierce...
Worry is a repeat of what happened on 26th July 2005 when the city experienced the highest downpour in 100 years. While the municipal corporation claims to be 100% ready for the monsoons, the roads and the drains do not indicate the same. There are huge pot holes on roads...water clogging on the roads due to level differences and clogged drains. Time will tell how the municipal corporation would fare in this years monsoon exam...
People of Mumbai have the knack of getting ahead of the most difficult of situations in a very short span of time. 2005 it was the flooding on 26th July, on 28th July lives were back on track...Thats what I like the most about this city and hence would love to stay here all my life inspite of the potholes, clogged drains, heavy traffic, pollution, population etc...
Hats off to Mumbai and the spirit of mumbaikars...
Also this an excellent time to sit in a lounge chair reading a book with kanda bhaji (Onion pakoda) and adrak wali chai (tea flavoured with ginger)...Hope I would be able to enjoy that today...
Worry is a repeat of what happened on 26th July 2005 when the city experienced the highest downpour in 100 years. While the municipal corporation claims to be 100% ready for the monsoons, the roads and the drains do not indicate the same. There are huge pot holes on roads...water clogging on the roads due to level differences and clogged drains. Time will tell how the municipal corporation would fare in this years monsoon exam...
People of Mumbai have the knack of getting ahead of the most difficult of situations in a very short span of time. 2005 it was the flooding on 26th July, on 28th July lives were back on track...Thats what I like the most about this city and hence would love to stay here all my life inspite of the potholes, clogged drains, heavy traffic, pollution, population etc...
Hats off to Mumbai and the spirit of mumbaikars...
Also this an excellent time to sit in a lounge chair reading a book with kanda bhaji (Onion pakoda) and adrak wali chai (tea flavoured with ginger)...Hope I would be able to enjoy that today...
Friday, June 6, 2008
Govt explains fuel price hike
Hi,
evening before last, the honourable prime minister of India addressed the nation ragarding the fuel hike by 10% effective 5th June. The way he placed forth the issue was very admirable and I completely agree with the governments decision to hike the prices and the views expressed in the address. In fact I feel that this could have been done at an annual rate of 4-5% for the last 3-4 years to avoid this sudden shock. At least in future the government should mark the domestic fuel rates to the internation crude oil prices.
The crude oil price has increased from $39 for a barrel in 2004 to $130 for a barrel in 2008. The petrol, diesel, LPG, kerosene et al has not gone up anywhere near that.
The deficit in the proces was borne by the government and the oil companies. Had the government not hiked the price the economy would have borne the brunt. The oil companies would have been in doldrums. This price hike is covering only 10% of the actual deficit, the rest is still bridged by the oil companies backed by the government.
It is imperative that we as responsible citizens of this nation take the hint and look for ways and means of saving fuel. Starting from using public transport...at least pooling cars. This would help our nation come out of this oil crisis.
We should also think of our future generations, if we use up all the available fuel they would have none!!! Imagine your great grand children taking a bullock cart to school as there is no more diesel...or imagine your grand children riding horses or walking to work...People would die of heart attacks as there would be no means to transport them to the hospital. We should extend this to all resources...electricity, water, food...should use all resources frugally and ensure that nothing is wasted.
It is also noteworthy that we as end consumers of fuel pay huge state government taxes in form of VAT and octroi. It is now in the hands of the state governments to cushion us against this. Let us see how things turn out.
evening before last, the honourable prime minister of India addressed the nation ragarding the fuel hike by 10% effective 5th June. The way he placed forth the issue was very admirable and I completely agree with the governments decision to hike the prices and the views expressed in the address. In fact I feel that this could have been done at an annual rate of 4-5% for the last 3-4 years to avoid this sudden shock. At least in future the government should mark the domestic fuel rates to the internation crude oil prices.
The crude oil price has increased from $39 for a barrel in 2004 to $130 for a barrel in 2008. The petrol, diesel, LPG, kerosene et al has not gone up anywhere near that.
The deficit in the proces was borne by the government and the oil companies. Had the government not hiked the price the economy would have borne the brunt. The oil companies would have been in doldrums. This price hike is covering only 10% of the actual deficit, the rest is still bridged by the oil companies backed by the government.
It is imperative that we as responsible citizens of this nation take the hint and look for ways and means of saving fuel. Starting from using public transport...at least pooling cars. This would help our nation come out of this oil crisis.
We should also think of our future generations, if we use up all the available fuel they would have none!!! Imagine your great grand children taking a bullock cart to school as there is no more diesel...or imagine your grand children riding horses or walking to work...People would die of heart attacks as there would be no means to transport them to the hospital. We should extend this to all resources...electricity, water, food...should use all resources frugally and ensure that nothing is wasted.
It is also noteworthy that we as end consumers of fuel pay huge state government taxes in form of VAT and octroi. It is now in the hands of the state governments to cushion us against this. Let us see how things turn out.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
fuel price rise
Hi,
Indian government has announced a 10% fuel price hike, they would explain the reasons behind this later in the day.
In a way this was a good move, there was no point in over burdening the oil companies. with crude oil prices rising by 35% in last one year a fuel price hike of 10% seems ok.
This should have an adverse impact on the Indian economy in the near future as inflation, which has currently crossed 8%, would shoot up further as tranportation costs, mainly food and utilities, would go up. In the long run however it should get settled.
Have a different view on subsidy on diesel: The subsidy should be applicable to only tranporters while private car owners should pay the full cost of diesel. This I feel would be healthy for the economy as on one hand we are trying to curtail inflation by subsidising diesel at the cost of other economic sectors, while on the other hand the subsidy is being used by the private car owners. In a way the tax payers money is going into the pockets of a rich guy driving a diesel powered mercedes or toyota and not benefitting the masses. The rich would keep getting richer as the poor keep getting poorer. Feel that this is incorrect and that the government should change in stand on subsidy of diesel or increase taxes/duties on sale of diesel powered private cars so that this anomaly is removed.
Indian government has announced a 10% fuel price hike, they would explain the reasons behind this later in the day.
In a way this was a good move, there was no point in over burdening the oil companies. with crude oil prices rising by 35% in last one year a fuel price hike of 10% seems ok.
This should have an adverse impact on the Indian economy in the near future as inflation, which has currently crossed 8%, would shoot up further as tranportation costs, mainly food and utilities, would go up. In the long run however it should get settled.
Have a different view on subsidy on diesel: The subsidy should be applicable to only tranporters while private car owners should pay the full cost of diesel. This I feel would be healthy for the economy as on one hand we are trying to curtail inflation by subsidising diesel at the cost of other economic sectors, while on the other hand the subsidy is being used by the private car owners. In a way the tax payers money is going into the pockets of a rich guy driving a diesel powered mercedes or toyota and not benefitting the masses. The rich would keep getting richer as the poor keep getting poorer. Feel that this is incorrect and that the government should change in stand on subsidy of diesel or increase taxes/duties on sale of diesel powered private cars so that this anomaly is removed.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
China earth quake
Hi Guys,
Was unwell yesterday hence no post, was reading about the earthquake in China, saw some really disheartening images. being a parent myself, the 'one couple one child' policy seems very harsh when such incidents occur. Many school buildings collapsed due to the quake leaving thousands of children dead. Pictures of parents holding their dead children brought tears to many...
It was quite amazing how the army came to the rescue of trapped people drained the quake lakes to ensure no further damage was done due to floods, kudos to them.
What is intriguing? Use your imagination to guage the impact of this event on the economy. While China's economy would not be affected as it is very large in scale, it could face some issues on work force front as many young people (mainly students) died.
Could this impact India? would some chinese goods that have become a daily utility become dear to Indians, further fuelling the inflation in India. Mainly due to reduced supply of chinese goods and/or due to reliance on Indian replacements?
The answers for these would be evident as time passes. Leave you with these thoughts...
May god bless the souls that passed away due to the quake in China and the floods in Burma.
Was unwell yesterday hence no post, was reading about the earthquake in China, saw some really disheartening images. being a parent myself, the 'one couple one child' policy seems very harsh when such incidents occur. Many school buildings collapsed due to the quake leaving thousands of children dead. Pictures of parents holding their dead children brought tears to many...
It was quite amazing how the army came to the rescue of trapped people drained the quake lakes to ensure no further damage was done due to floods, kudos to them.
What is intriguing? Use your imagination to guage the impact of this event on the economy. While China's economy would not be affected as it is very large in scale, it could face some issues on work force front as many young people (mainly students) died.
Could this impact India? would some chinese goods that have become a daily utility become dear to Indians, further fuelling the inflation in India. Mainly due to reduced supply of chinese goods and/or due to reliance on Indian replacements?
The answers for these would be evident as time passes. Leave you with these thoughts...
May god bless the souls that passed away due to the quake in China and the floods in Burma.
Friday, May 30, 2008
The great Indian brain drain
Hi,
Brain drain is the term associated with intellectual capital assets (i.e. intelligent people) moving out of a country in search of greener pastures. I have seen brain drain happen in form of, more than 70% of my engineering batch mates, being outside India. Many cite reasons like poor infrastructure, poor monetary compensation, red-tapism among many others.
I feel reservations at all levels is one of the primary contributor to this 'brain drain'. There are reservations at all education levels, may it be engineering, medical or even normal graduation. Now there is also a plan of having reservations for IITs' and IIMs'. It is difficult to imagine the kind of MBA crowd that emerges from such reservations.
I was reminded of this problem this week as there were two separate articles highlighting Indians abroad who have excelled. One is associated with NASA in their mars project while the other one discovered a new thermal method of detecting cancer.
I had an old mail on reservations, am sharing the contents below, good read...
THE STORY OF INDIA:
World version:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for thewinter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
Indian Version:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summerbuilding its house and laying up supplies for thewinter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
All TV news channels show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Communists stage a demonstration in front of the Ant's house. Human rights groups go on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter.
World leaders criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper. The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven andEverlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for for non-compliance). Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry. Communists in Kerala immediately pass a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers. Railway ministry allocates one free coach to grass hoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the'Grasshopper Rath'. Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the 'Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter. HRD ministry makes 'Special Reservation' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services.
The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by all leadings news channels. Communists calls it 'A Triumph of Justice' and 'Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden'. Some call it 'Socialistic Justice '. Some world leaders invite the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.
Many years later...
The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley, Lakhs of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India...
AND As a result of losing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country!!!
Brain drain is the term associated with intellectual capital assets (i.e. intelligent people) moving out of a country in search of greener pastures. I have seen brain drain happen in form of, more than 70% of my engineering batch mates, being outside India. Many cite reasons like poor infrastructure, poor monetary compensation, red-tapism among many others.
I feel reservations at all levels is one of the primary contributor to this 'brain drain'. There are reservations at all education levels, may it be engineering, medical or even normal graduation. Now there is also a plan of having reservations for IITs' and IIMs'. It is difficult to imagine the kind of MBA crowd that emerges from such reservations.
I was reminded of this problem this week as there were two separate articles highlighting Indians abroad who have excelled. One is associated with NASA in their mars project while the other one discovered a new thermal method of detecting cancer.
I had an old mail on reservations, am sharing the contents below, good read...
THE STORY OF INDIA:
World version:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for thewinter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
Indian Version:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summerbuilding its house and laying up supplies for thewinter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
All TV news channels show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Communists stage a demonstration in front of the Ant's house. Human rights groups go on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter.
World leaders criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper. The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven andEverlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for for non-compliance). Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry. Communists in Kerala immediately pass a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers. Railway ministry allocates one free coach to grass hoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the'Grasshopper Rath'. Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the 'Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter. HRD ministry makes 'Special Reservation' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services.
The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by all leadings news channels. Communists calls it 'A Triumph of Justice' and 'Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden'. Some call it 'Socialistic Justice '. Some world leaders invite the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.
Many years later...
The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley, Lakhs of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India...
AND As a result of losing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country!!!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Conspiracies of the universe....
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Continuing where I left off last eveing...
On Monday night I went to the mall to collect the left over items from the department store and to my surprise, there was a formula one car (Renault) on display at the very same mall. Now my excitement knew no bounds as I am a diehard F1 fan. Thus the conspiracy of the universe astoundingly continued. I am sharing some of the photographs of the F1 car that I clicked at the mall..jpg)
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Conspiracies of the universe
Hi,
Wish to share an interesting experience that I had over the past week end. On Sunday afternoon I had been to a mall with my family and did some petty purchases at a department store, while the items were not many the packing boy decided to pack those in two separate bags and I took only of them home... which, as you would have guessed, I realised only after reaching home...Surprisingly the contact numbers of the store were not mentioned on the bill or on the carry bag. I thought that I would have to search them on the internet and call, which I decided to put off till Monday...However while browsing through some timepass newspaper I came across an advertisement of the same store and luckily it had the store's telephone nos. I managed to speak with the customer serivce fellow by 6 pm on Sunday and he confirmed (based on the stock codes on the bill which I read out to him) that one bag was with them and that I could come and collect it on Monday.
Had read in the 'Alchemist', book by Paulo Coelho, that if a particular thing has to happen then the universe conspires to make that happen. This incident reminds me of this...To think that firstly I normally do not browse news papers at home (as I like watching TV), secondly that the newspaper that I was browsing was Fridays newspaper and I picked it up as there was no other newspaper around me...
There is one more surprise element to this story, would write about that tomorrow...
Wish to share an interesting experience that I had over the past week end. On Sunday afternoon I had been to a mall with my family and did some petty purchases at a department store, while the items were not many the packing boy decided to pack those in two separate bags and I took only of them home... which, as you would have guessed, I realised only after reaching home...Surprisingly the contact numbers of the store were not mentioned on the bill or on the carry bag. I thought that I would have to search them on the internet and call, which I decided to put off till Monday...However while browsing through some timepass newspaper I came across an advertisement of the same store and luckily it had the store's telephone nos. I managed to speak with the customer serivce fellow by 6 pm on Sunday and he confirmed (based on the stock codes on the bill which I read out to him) that one bag was with them and that I could come and collect it on Monday.
Had read in the 'Alchemist', book by Paulo Coelho, that if a particular thing has to happen then the universe conspires to make that happen. This incident reminds me of this...To think that firstly I normally do not browse news papers at home (as I like watching TV), secondly that the newspaper that I was browsing was Fridays newspaper and I picked it up as there was no other newspaper around me...
There is one more surprise element to this story, would write about that tomorrow...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Cool card reader
Guys, This is first day of blogging...Today I bought a cool card reader for just 150 rs. This device can actually read out of 4 differnt sizes of cards and connects to your PC through usb. Have attached an image of the card reader which incidentally was captured from my mobile and transferred to the PC through the very same card reader...Thought this is a good accessory to have...
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