Author: beingdesh

  • The Times of Holi – Edition 1

    Sometime in 1996, somewhere in Chhattisgarh

    тАЬBhaiya kuch fugge (balloon) dena, arre yeh nahi, who paani waaleтАЭ

    тАЬLo Beta, 5rs ke 100, rang wagera chahiyeтАЭ

    тАЬnahi bhaiya, who le liya, Thank youтАЭ

    Tomorrow is Holi time, this time it has fallen in between the exam, but we will play. Holi requires hell lot of preparations and we are all ready for that. I have my entire arsenal ready,

    • 2 packets of Gulaal– my favourite- Yellow and Violet, the weirdest of combos
    • 2 packs of water waala colour, 1 Solid (choti bottle), one regular in both red & green
    • This year I have given away with pichkari, no use, small streams of water are of no use, metal pichkaris as shown in Sholay are not good too. Me and my friends have come up with a set of plastic bottles, cut & twisted to form nice pichku devices with maximum impact
    • Fuggas which need to be made into chotu hand grenades filled with water color
    • A set of old clothes, the only festival in the world where o0ne wears that. Although on television nowadays they show people wearing Super White clothes on Holi I think itтАЩs a stupid idea. Every year this was the day when we dispatched our worst clothes (mostly torn by EOD). Although one of my friends use to wear the same trouser every year for holi (something which I tried on later)

    I woke up early, and we did a small pooja at home. Post that I applied Parachute Nariyal Tel on my body & face and hair. A yucky feeling but its ok, as everyone says it will help in removing the colour later on. And then I move out of C-655 Kaveri Vihar.

    Apart from Patricks, there is no one else, so we put some gulaal on each other and moved to the row behind. This row has been amazing for my childhood, where I have played everything from Racetrip when electricity goes, to pitthul, kabbadi and obviously cricket. So we played holi here with everyone with our entire arsenal. All my grenades were transferred to a terrace and fired from there.

    Although as always there are two types of people everywhere, Good and Bad. We were obviously the good lot, and the bad ones use on Holi day are the ones who use Silver Paint, Grease, and play with even Gobar at times. Also they whistle and say bad stuff when didi log from our township go around on holi. All dirty peopleтАж

    After the first round we reload our arsenal and move towards Nucleus club where the whole of township assembles. Everything is arranged, from drums full of colour, pipes throwing up chilled water and water tankers supplying hell lot of it, holi style dhinchak music, jalebis and bhaijyas, my friends from all over the township, thandai (2 types, one for us, one for uncles with something called bhang in it which is like alcohol I heard). It ends with food packets.
    After playing for a long time, its back home and then the efforts to wash off the colours, and its bad if someone has put some paint or grease on you, bad people. Next day in school everyone would turn with pink cheeks and multicoloured hands. Holi also brings a lot of tiredness and a nice sleep on that day.

    Also the sad part is like Navratri it always either falls on sideline or in between an exam. Horrible timing for such an awesome festival, but I will always enjoy celebrating it.

    Never better than at KorbaтАж

    This year I didnтАЩt celebrate it after quite sometime, hoping this never happens again and keep on enjoying my favorite festival.

    Hope you have read the Navratri collection,

  • What Having Fun was… What it is?

    Comes from my conversations with few buddies… mix of their and my incidents ЁЯЩВ

    As a Kid having a cold drink was fun. I still remember the time when my dad used to take me to Indian Coffee House, ordered a Special Dosa for me (with one Kaju, costed 14 Rs. then). He would order a filter coffee and watch me munch on the dosa. And then came the cold drink. Ahaa, that straw and that first sip was awesome. From Gold Spot to rarity of having coke, it was all fun. And yes The Green Boxed Frooti (Rs. 6) was awesome too.

    As a kid I loved having an ice cream. Didn’t we always dream of a chocobar or a vanilla cup. It was so awesome when I went out with my family to have that. Maybe once a month, maybe once in 2 months. But it was awesome. Arun Ice cream’s vanilla cups were the best ЁЯЩВ

    As a kid I loved ice cream. The best thing was Nirula’s. Chocolate was simply the best. They used to give me one after I showed them my report card, and I also got coupon for my birthday ЁЯЩВ

    Those were the days. Sipping Beer, or whisky at Banshankari’s famous hang-outs. Seshgiri or its not so far sister concern (codename: 3 gigolos :)). We got drunk, had chips from some HOT CHIPS, cold drinks from the same store, and then we talked…

    and talked

    and talked

    a movie used to play, a guy used to enter kop-bhavan, 2 guys were always coding something on a red laptop which was hotter than a frying pan, and we ended up playing karaoke with Golmaal or discussing Nihilism, science fiction & indian cinema.

    And there are moments which me, and a few others dont like that much, but it gives some sort of fun to others. Like, loud music, dark discos, late night drinking and talking sessions etc etc.

    But then like today, there are awesome mornings to cover them all up, from disc-asur to Idli-esh. We had the best breakfast one can ever have to start the day, filter coffee, 5-6 types of idlis, 4 types of dosas, podi with oil, benne (white butter).

    I know what kind of fun is best for me, and I will be back soon, as soon as this 2 year thing comes to an end.

  • Left Behind

    Once upon a time, there used to be this colony of around 200 ants. They had been living together, happily for around a year and a half now next to a small river. There colony had the best stocks of food, good climatic conditions in the area, and above all great antz. They were fun loving and used to enjoy each other’s company. They had fun in outings, in the functions and even the sports festival which they celebrated. Then came the day of the great rains which continued for a few days. The river overflowed and the ant colony came under threat. A group of 20 odd engineer ants created a bridge for the ants to cross the river safely. Slowly they started crossing & around 150 of them crossed the bridge to move towards safety. Rest were stuck on the island created due to rains & river as the bridge broke down after that. Still the team of around 20 kept on trying to recreate the bridge.

    End 1:

    Engineers kept trying to reconstruct the bridge with great difficulty. Rest of the ants who had crossed seldom cared. Few of them did, but some of them went away to their homes, some started playing sports- cricket & football & handball, some went for trips, & some just didn’t care. Some kept on partying which the ants stuck on the other side used to witness. Even I sometimes attend those parties, & so do the other engineers. Every time the ants who had crossed partied the ants who were stuck felt sad. Few of them sent across signals of reassurance still the ants who were stuck were lost in hope. They were sad, and blamed their misery on fate.

    Somewhere in those engineers, I felt really confused, & filled with guilt at times. Why it has to be this way? Couldn’t we all be together. The bridge would be completed soon, and all of them would be able to cross, but why this indifference?

    End 2:

    Engineers got the help from the entire population of ants who had crossed. They worked day & night to help the rest of ants cross the river. The ants who were stuck felt reassured that the all their colony members are with them in this moment when they needed them the most. Although it took time for the bridge to complete still they were able to live through all this reassuringly.

    Me and my team of engineers was happy looking at all of us working together in these tough moments.

    There can be two ends, I know the way it is shaping now, and I also know the way we want it to end. Lets hope for the best.

  • рдХрд╣рд╛рдиреА реирел рдкреИрд╕реЗ рдХреЗ рдмреЛрд░рдХреБрдЯ рдХреА

    On all those cycle journeys back from school me, my namesake and few more friends spent most of our time chit-chatting, drinking water from my Milton bottle and taking numerous stops. Strangely each stop and its activity was the same for years.

    The school was some 15 mins from our home Krishna Vihar in morning (or even at 10 mins at times), but in afternoon it took us half hour or more. We had 3 stops, first in Yamuna Vihar (water drinking and discussion on girls and on latest Kaands in school stop), Kaveri Vihar Market (detour from our route, chedu’s pravachan, his our fascinations of kimberly drummond (different strokes) & ms. winslet of titanic and experiments with sanskrit :)), and finally the borkut stop :D…

    Borkut stop was our final frontier of freedom, 1Re coin helping us buy 4 of them, we were usually 3, so one for each and then carefully splitting the final pack in 3 parts. Or mixing borkut with aamkut and imlikut just at 25p :). Borkut is btw a pachak product made from Jungli Ber’s power along with chatpata masala (like hajmola). Aamkut is amde form raw mango and imlikut from dried tamarind.

    Those were the days were a rupee bought me that much pleasure. Jalebi in those days was Rs. 40 a kg and we were full in 5Rs.

    And yesterday whn I stpped out with another of my namesakes we spent 98 Rs for 2 pieces of Jalebi and 2 Pieces of Gulaabjaamun. Oh I forgot 5ml of Rabdi which accompanied it. Felt bad, but world has changed.

    And so have we…

  • Reliving рдЫрдмреНрдмреАрд╕ рдЬрдирд╡рд░реА

    Happy Republic Day. Enjoyed a wonderful morning today at college, all the National Events tend to be extremely pleasing events, and as I felt today if it was not for them, we would completely disconnect from our cultural heritage.

    As a kid Republic Day (and even 15th August) used to be super fun. It started a week or 10 days before the D-Day. As a kid and even now I wasn’t that performance inclined. So as always I formed the chunk of the neglected extras on the day forming the part of MARCH PAST :). The superstars always were part of some dance, or group song. ( I was part of group song once, last row, because they wanted few guys who were tall in the last row, so far from mic, that no one can hear us. As a chotu child Group songs were occasions when our faced were smashed with Red Colored Circles, and thumb sucking kids we were used to running around on stage with nursery teachers chasing us :)).

    March Past practice was fun too, forming queues, using cliched phrases like arre one-arm distance lo na, Physical Education Teacher finding center stage apart from his usual student-thrashing activities etc. etc. Girls who were part of the March Past were a depressed lot too, because most of them anyways were part of dance, the girls who were not, were thoda sort of Tom-Boyish types as people said that time. Then there was the yatra-tatra-sarvatra drummer who was omnipresent during all practices of all kinds. Be it the regular march past routine, morning assemblies, tabla in annual function, any other instrument for annual function. He was the Music Teacher’s favorite and was groomed to be a Music Teacher in future, sadly ending as another engineer among us millions :). BTW this March Past was for commoners, the Scouts and Guides were the Elite class, we were just filler items.

    The D-Day used to start with Flag hoisting in school with Vande Mataram and ending with Jan Gana Man. Mostly students associated with the main event came to school (yes there was a lot beyond that, not even a part of the march past :)). We got an extra packet of the same goodie kit which we received a day prior to 26th Jan too (distributed among all township schools). Kit consisted of 1 Classic Parle -G (the then 100gm 4rs. to the now 82gm 4Rs.), Poppins (the then Rs.125, not to be found much nowdays, there is another interesting story about Poppins, but sometime later for that), couple of candies/lollipops and even dairy milk at times (used to change every year). Then we sat in a bus and moved to the main ground.

    All the township gathered on the Man Sarovar ground, the battleground of our numerous Cricket battles, fistfights, once visited by the great Narendra Hirwani and Sandeep Patil :). The ground was always full on these 2 national holidays and it was great fun to be part of the festive atmosphere.

    Most of the attention was always grabbed by Dance performances from across schools, award winners etc etc. The most depressing lot was always that of the March Past gang, who started the proceedings and then stood there for an hour till everyone danced, sang and received prizes. Whatever we did, we stood, got tired etc etc., but we never broke the one arm distance ЁЯЩВ.

    After so many years рдЫрдмреНрдмреАрд╕ рдЬрдирд╡рд░реА still evokes emotions, but not of that strength. But I am happy these things keep country’s culture running for a few more days before the roadie kind of people swallow it up completely.

    Also would like to remember the ones who lost their lives on 26th Jan’01 in the Gujarat quake, may their souls rest peacefully in heaven.

  • Learnings from MBA- Part I

    The best thoughts hit when you are sitting on the toilet seat. Suddenly realized how much disconnected from the world I have become sitting there today. Many people whom I talked are nowhere to be found to nowadays. Have missed one friend’s wedding, going to miss 2 more soon. Lots has changed, MBA has changed a lot. Just to summarize the learnings from the 18 odd months till now,

    – Acads, well remember a bit of Business Strategy, Consult is still fresh, a bit of marketing fundas which have been repeated enough number of times, few of the Finance ka fundas, thats mostly it. Haan, liked supply chain and a couple of visiting faculties too, but thats it.

    – Ability to take Stress, or the non-ability to take it. It actually depends on you that how much you set your limits as. I set it very high, to levels which I cant take, and it shows. Its difficult, and you know that you cant take anymore. But just 2-3 months to go…

    – Anger Management or the lack of it: For a person who claimed to be Anger Free since Two Thousand Three ( 2-3 instances) the worst part is to abuse daily and shout at other people which is like a ritual to me nowadays

    – Networking they said happens in MBA, honestly all your old pals, relatives etc. stop talking to you given the lack of interest you show in them, so its just you and you forever after that

    – Sense, or lack of it missing in the Top .01% of the country sitting along with you for 2 years. What else should I tell…

    Would be putting down a few more during my final days here. If its going to be like this in work post MBA too, either I would retire in 2-3 years. Or even sooner.

    People planning for MBA, dont do it, kills your life.

  • рднреЗрдбрдЪрд╛рд▓

    рдмрджрд▓рд╛рд╡ рд╣рдорд╛рд░реЗ рдЕрдиреНрджрд░ рд╣реЛрддрд╛ рд╣реИред рдмрджрд▓рд╛рд╡ рдирд┐рд░рдВрддрд░ рд╣реИ рдФрд░ рдЙрд╕рд╕реЗ рд░реЛрдХрдиреЗ рдХрд╛ рд╢рд╛рдпрдж рд╣реА рдХреЛ рдХреЛрдИ рдЙрдкрд╛рдп рд╣реЛрдЧрд╛ред рдкрд░ рдХреНрдпрд╛ рдореИрдВ рдмрджрд▓рдирд╛ рдЪрд╛рд╣реВрдБрдЧрд╛?

    рдХреБрдЫ рд╡рд░реНрд╖реЛ рдкрд╣рд▓реЗ рддрдХ рдореБрдЭреЗ рдХреБрдЫ рдкрддрд╛ рдирд╣реА рдерд╛ рдХреА рдореИрдВ рдЬреАрд╡рди рдореИрдВ рдХреНрдпрд╛ рдХрд░рдирд╛ рдЪрд╛рд╣рддрд╛ рд╣реВрдБ, рдФрд░ рдЖрдЬ рднреА рдореЗрд░реЗ рд╡рд┐рдЪрд╛рд░ рдХреБрдЫ рд╕реНрдкрд╖реНрдЯ рдирд╣реА рд╣реБрдП рд╣реИред рдХрд╛рдо рдХрд░рдирд╛ рдХреНрдпрд╛ рдХреЗрд╡рд▓ рдПрдХ рдордЬрдмреВрд░реА рд╣реИ, рдпрд╛ рдЗрд╕рдореЗ рдХреЛрдИ рдЖрд░реНрдерд┐рдХ рд▓рд╛рднреЛрдВ рдХреЗ рдЕрд▓рд╛рд╡рд╛ рд▓рд╛рдн рд╣реИ, рдРрд╕реЗ рдкреНрд░рд╢реНрди рдореЗрд░реЗ рджрд┐рдорд╛рдЧ рдореИрдВ рдХреБрдЫ рджрд┐рдиреЛрдВ рд╕реЗ рдЖ рд░рд╣реЗ рд╣реИред рдХрд╛рдо рдХрд╛рдЬреА рдЬреАрд╡рди рдЬреИрд╕реЗ рдЬреИрд╕реЗ рдиреЫрджреАрдХ рдЖ рд░рд╣рд╛ рд╣реИ, рд╡реИрд╕реЗ рд╣реА рдореИрдВ рдереЛреЬрд╛ рдЙрд╕рд╕реЗ рдШрдмрд░рд╛ рднреА рд░рд╣рд╛ рд╣реВрдБред

    рдкреНрд░рдмрдВрдзрди рдХрд╛ рдЕрдзреНрдпрди рднрд╛рд░рдд рдореИрдВ рдХрдИ рдЫрд╛рддреНрд░реЛрдВ рдХрд╛ рд╕рдкрдирд╛ рд╣реИ, рдХреНрдпреЛрдВрдХрд┐ рдЗрд╕рдореЗ рдкреИрд╕реЗ рдЕрдЪреНрдЫреЗ рд╣реИ рдФрд░ рдпрд╣ рдЖрдЬрдХрд▓ рдХреА рдирдИ рднреЗрдбрдЪрд╛рд▓ рд╣реИред рдкрд░ рдореЗрд░рд╛ рдЕрдиреБрднрд╡ рдХрд╣ рд░рд╣рд╛ рд╣реИ рдХреА рдЖрдк рдЬрд┐рд╕ рдЕрд╡рд╕реНрдерд╛ рдореИрдВ рдкреНрд░рд╕рдиреНрди рд░рд╣реЗ, рд╡рд╣реА рдЕрдЪреНрдЫреА рдиреМрдХрд░реА рд╣реИред рдкреНрд░рдмрдиреНрдзрди рдХреЗ рдкрд╢реНрдЪрд╛рддреН рдЖрдкрдХреЛ рдЗрддрдиреА рдореНрд╣рдгрдд рдХрд░рдиреА рд╣реЛрдЧреА рдХреА рд╡реИрд╕реЗ рднреА рдЖрдк рекреж рдХреА рдЙрдореНрд░ рдХреЗ рдмрд╛рдж рдХреБрдЫ рдХрд░рдиреЗ рдХреЗ рдпреЛрдЧреНрдп рдирд╣реА рд░рд╣реЗрдВрдЧреЗред

    рддреЛ рдХреНрдпрд╛ рдореБрдЭреЗ рдЪрд╛рд╣рд┐рдП,

    рдЕрдЪреНрдЫреА рдиреМрдХрд░реА, рдЕрдЪреНрдЫреА рддрдирдЦреНрд╡рд╛рд╣ рдФрд░ рдПрдХ рдмрдбрд╝рд╛ рдирд╛рдо
    рдпрд╛ реЮрд┐рд░ рдХреБрдЫ рдЕрдЪреНрдЫреЗ рд▓реЛрдЧ, рдХрдо рдЪрд┐рдВрддрд╛ рд╡рд╛рд▓рд╛ рдХрд╛рдо, рдФрд░ рдареАрдХ рдард╛рдХ рддрдирдЦреНрд╡рд╛рд╣

    рдлрд┐рд▓рд╣рд╛рд▓ рддреЛ рдореИрдВ рд╣рдореЗрд╢рд╛ рдХреА рддрд░рдЧ рдЗрд╕ рдЕрд╕рдордВрдЬрд╕ рдореИрдВ рд╣реВрдБ рдХреА рдореИрдВ рдХреНрдпрд╛ рдХрд░реВ, рдореЗрд░реЗ рдЖрдЬреВ рдмрд╛рдЬреВ рд╣рд░ рдХреЛрдИ рдЬрд░реБрд░рдд рд╕реЗ рдЬреНрдпрд╛рджрд╛ рдПрдХрд╛рдЧреНрд░рд┐рдд рд╣реИ, рд╕рдмрдХреЛ рд╕рд╛рдмреБрди рддреЗрд▓ рдмреЗрдЪрдирд╛, рдмреЗрдВрдХреЛ рдореИрдВ рдЬрд╛рдирд╛, рдФрд░ рд╕рдВрдЧрдгрдХ рдЙрджреНрдпреЛрдЧ рдореИрдВ рдЕрдкрдирд╛ рдЬреАрд╡рди рдмрд┐рддрд╛рдирд╛ рд╣реИред рдореБрдЭреЗ рдЗрди рд╕рдм рд╕реЗ рдХреЛрдИ рд▓реЗрдирд╛ рджреЗрдирд╛ рдирд╣реА, рдореБрдЭреЗ рдХреБрдЫ рднреА рдЪрд▓реЗрдЧрд╛ред рдкрд░ рдореЗрд░реЗ рд▓рд┐рдП рд╕рдмрд╕реЗ рдЬрд░реБрд░реА рдЪреАреЫреЗ рд╣реИ,

    рдореЗрд░реЗ рдЖрд╕ рдкрд╛рд╕ рдХреЗ рд▓реЛрдЧ, рдПрдХ рдЕрдЪреНрдЫрд╛ рд╡рд╛рддрд╛рд╡рд░рдг, рдФрд░ рдирд┐рд╢реНрдЪрд┐рдд рдЖрд░рд╛рдо рдФрд░ рдЕрдиреНрдп рд░реБрдЪрд┐рдпрд╛ рдкреВрд░реНрдг рдХрд░рдирд╛ред

    рдкрд░ рдореБрдЭреЗ реЮрд┐рд░ рд▓рдЧрддрд╛ рд╣реИ рдХреАрдЬреАрд╡рди рдореИрдВрдиреЗ рдЖрдЬрддрдХ рдЙрд╕ рдЪреАрдЬрд╝ рдХреЛ рдирд╣реА рдЪреБрдирд╛ рдЬрд┐рд╕рд╕реЗ рдореИрдВ рдЪреБрдирдирд╛ рдЪрд╛рд╣рддрд╛ рдерд╛, рдмрд▓рдХреА рдЙрди рдмрд╛рддреЛ рдХреЗ рдкреАрдЫреЗ рдЬреНрдпрд╛рджрд╛ рд░рд╣рд╛ рдЬреЛ рднреЗрдбрдЪрд╛рд▓ рдХрд╛ рд╣рд┐рд╕реНрд╕рд╛ рдереАред

    рдпрд╣ рд╕рдм рдмрд╕ рдХреБрдЫ рд╡рд┐рдЪрд╛рд░ рд╣реИ рдЬреЛ рдЪрд▓реЗ рдЬрд╛рдпреЗрдВрдЧреЗ, рдореИрдВ реЮрд┐рд░ рдЗрди рдХрд┐рддрд╛рдмреЛ рдФрд░ рдЕрдЬреАрдмреЛ рдЧрд░реАрдм рдХрд╛рдо рдХреЗ рдЪрдХреНрдХрд░ рдореИрдВ рдбреВрдм рдЬрд╛рдКрдБрдЧрд╛, рдФрд░ рд░рд╣ рдЬрд╛рдпреЗрдЧреА рдпрд╣ рднреЗрдбрдЪрд╛рд▓, рдЬрд┐рд╕рдХрд╛ рдореИрдВ рд╕рджреЗрд╡ рд╣рд┐рд╕реНрд╕рд╛ рд░рд╣реВрдБрдЧрд╛ред

  • рдЦреЗрд▓,рдЗрдиреНрдЯрд░рдиреЗрдЯ рдФрд░ рд╣рдо

    рдХреБрдЫ рдмрд╛рд░рд╛рд╣ рд╕рд╛рд▓ рдХрд╛ рдерд╛ рдореИрдВ, рдЬрдм рдореИрдВрдиреЗ рдкрд╣рд▓реА рдмрд╛рд░ рднрдЧрд╡рд╛рдиреН рдХреЛ рджреЗрдЦрд╛, рд╡реЛ рдиреАрд▓реЗ рд░рдВрдЧ рдХрд╛ рдореБрдХреБрдЯ рдкрд╣реЗрдирддрд╛ рдерд╛ рдЕрдкрдиреЗ рдШреБрдВрдШрд░рд╛рд▓реЗ рдмрд╛рд▓реЛ рдХреЗ рдКрдкрд░, рдФрд░ рдПрдХ рднрд╛рд░реА рд▓рдХреЬреА рдХреА рдЧрджрд╛ рдереА рдЙрд╕рдХреЗ рдкрд╛рд╕, рдФрд░ рдЕрдкрдиреЗ рдЪрдорддреНрдХрд╛рд░ рд╕реЗ рд╡реЛрд╣ рджреБрдирд┐рдпрд╛ рдХреЗ рд╕рдмрд╕реЗ рдорд╣рд╛рди рдЧреЗрдВрджрдмрд╛рдЬреЛрдВ рдХрд╛ рдирд╛рд╢ рдХрд░ рд░рд╣рд╛ рдерд╛. рдЙрд╕ рд╕рд╛рд▓ рдерд╛ рд╡рд┐рд╢реНрд╡ рдХрдк рдХреЗ рдЙрдкрд▓рдХреНрд╖ рдкрд░ рдЙрд╕рдиреЗ рджреМреЬреЛ рдХреА рдЭреЬреА рд▓рдЧрд╛ рджреА рдереА, рдФрд░ рд╢реЗрди рд╡рд╛рд░рдиреЗ рдирдордХ рдЧреЗрдВрджрдмрд╛рдЬрд╝ рдХреЛ рддреЛ рдЙрд╕ рдорд╣рд╛рди рдиреЗ рдиреЗрд╕реНрддрдирд╛рдмреВрдж рд╣реА рдХрд░ рджрд┐рдпрд╛ рдерд╛.

    рдкрд░ рдлрд┐рд░ рд╡реЛрд╣ рджрд┐рди рднреА рдЖрдпрд╛, рдЬрдм рдХрд▓рдХрддреНрддрд╛ рдХреА рд░рдгрднреВрдорд┐ рдкрд░ репрез/реи рдХреЗ рд╕реНрдХреЛрд░ рдкрд░ рд╡реЛрд╣ рдЖрдЙрдЯ рд╣реБрдЖ, рдФрд░ рдЙрд╕рдХреЗ рдмрд╛рдж рдХрд▓рдХрддреНрддрд╛ рдХреА рдЬрдирддрд╛ рдиреЗ рдЙрд╕ рджреЗрд╡рддрд╛ рдХреЗ рдЕрднрд╛рд╡ рдореИрдВ рдореИрджрд╛рди рдХреЛ рднрд╕реНрдо рдХрд░ рджрд┐рдпрд╛, рд▓реЛрдЧ рдХрд╣рддреЗ рд╣реИ рд╡реЛрд╣ рд╢рд┐рд╡рдЬреА рдХрд╛ рджреБрдГрдЦ рдерд╛ рдХреА рдЙрд╕ рдирдиреНрд╣реЗ рднрдЧрд╡рд╛рдиреН рдХреЗ рдЖрдЙрдЯ рд╣реЛрдиреЗ рдкрд░ рдЙрдиреНрд╣реЛрдВрдиреЗ рдЙрд╕ рджрд┐рди рдХрд▓рдХрддреНрддрд╛ рдкрд░ рдЖрдЧ рдмрд░рд╕рд╛рдИ. рдкрд░ рдЙрд╕ рд░рд╛рдд рдореИрдВ рд╕реЛ рдирд╣реАрдВ рдкрд╛рдпрд╛, рдФрд░ рдЙрди рдЖрдБрдЦреЛрдВ рдореИрдВ рдХрд╣реА рдХреБрдЫ рдкрд╛рдиреА рдХреА рдмреВрдБрджреЗрдВ рдЬрд╝рд░реВрд░ рдереА.

    резрепрепрем рдХрд╛ рд╡реЛрд╣ рд╕рд╛рд▓ рдФрд░ рдорд╛рдпрдиреЛрдВ рдореИрдВ рднреА рдРрддрд┐рд╣рд╛рд╕рд┐рдХ рдерд╛, рдЬрдм рдЗрдиреНрдЯрд░рдиреЗрдЯ рдирд╛рдордХ рддрдХрдиреАрдХ рдореЗрд░реА рджреБрдирд┐рдпрд╛ рдореИрдВ рдЖрдИ. рдПрдХ рдШрд░реНрд░реНрд░ рдШрд░реНрд░ рдХрд░рддреЗ рд╕рдВрдЧрдгрдХ рдХреЗ рд╕рд╛рдордиреЗ рдмреИрда рдХрд░ рдЖрдк рджреБрдирд┐рдпрд╛ рдореИрдВ рдХрд╣реА рднреА рдЪрд┐рдЯреНрдареА рд▓рд┐рдЦ рд╕рдХрддреЗ рдереЗ. рд╣реЙрдЯ рдореЗрд▓ , рдпрд╛рд╣реВ, рдФрд░ рдореЗрд░реЗ рдЖрдЬ рдХреЗ рдирд╛рдо рд╕реЗ рдЬреБрдбреА рдПрдХ рдкреЛрд░реНрдЯрд▓ рдХрд╛рдлреА рдкреНрд░рд╕рд┐рджреНрдз рд╣реБрдП.

    рдкрд░ рдореБрдЭреЗ рдХреНрдпрд╛ рдкрддрд╛ рдерд╛, рдХреА рдХреБрдЫ резреж рд╕рд╛рд▓реЛ рдмрд╛рдж, рдЗрдиреНрдЯрд░рдиреЗрдЯ рдХреЗ рдЬрд░рд┐рдпреЗ рдореИрдВ рдЙрди рдорд╣рд╛рди рдЦреЗрд▓ рдХреЗ рдХреНрд╖рдгреЛрдВ рдХреЛ рд╕рдВрднрд╛рд▓ рдХреЗ рд░рдЦ рдкрд╛рдКрдВрдЧрд╛, рдЬрд┐рдирдХрд╛ рдЗрддрд┐рд╣рд╛рд╕ рдореИрдВ рдХреЛрдИ рд╕рд╛рдиреА рдирд╣реАрдВ, рдФрд░ рдЬреЛ рдореЗрд░реЗ рджрд┐рд▓ рдХреЗ рдмреЗрд╣рдж рдХрд░реАрдм рд░рд╣реЗрдВрдЧреЗ. рдЗрд╕реА рдХрд╛ рдкреНрд░рдпрд╛рд╕ рдХрд░рддреЗ рд╣реБрдП рд╣рдо рдХреБрдЫ рдорд┐рддреНрд░реЛ рдиреЗ рдорд┐рд▓ рдХрд░ “рдкреЗрди рдж рдЧреЗрдо” рдХреА рд╕реНрдерд╛рдкрдирд╛ рдХреА. рдЗрд╕рдХреЗ рдкрд╣рд▓реЗ рд╣реА рд╡рд░реНрд╖ рдореИрдВ рдЗрд╕рдиреЗ indibloggies рдкреБрд░рд╕реНрдХрд╛рд░ рд╕рдорд╛рд░реЛрд╣ рдореИрдВ рднрд╛рд░рдд рдХреЗ рд╕рдмрд╕реЗ рдмреЗрд╣рддрд░реАрди рдЦреЗрд▓ рдмреНрд▓реЙрдЧ рд╣реЛрдиреЗ рдХрд╛ рдЧреМрд░рд╡ рдкреНрд░рд╛рдкреНрдд рдХрд┐рдпрд╛.

    рдЗрд╕ рд╡рд░реНрд╖ рднреА рд╣рдо рдЗрд╕ рд╕рдореНрдорд╛рди рдХреЗ рд▓рд┐рдП рдирд╛рдорд╛рдВрдХрд┐рдд рд╣реБрдП рд╣реИ, рдХреГрдкрдпрд╛ рдЗрди рд╕рдВрджреЗрд╢реЛ рдХрд╛ рдкрд▓рд╛рди рдХрд░реЗ, рдФрд░ рд╣рдореЗрдВ рд╡рд┐рдЬрдпреА рдмрдирд╛рдиреЗ рдореИрдВ рдорджрдж рдХрд░реЗ..

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  • A Night at Lodhivali


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    Where the hell is everyone? I canтАЩt find anyone today. Alone in room, no Khaut, no Sagun & Saachi. All gayab!!!

    Living with all 3 has been awesome, I have had great time with them over the past month. The highlight have been the sex education classes we conduct once in a while for Sagun, super fun. Plus me, khaut, shotu have got access recently to this amazing library of Hindi Erotica which is helping us in our mission to get Sagun upto sexually acceptable standards prevailing in modern times.

    Also Shotu has created this alias Jenny73153, Yahoo ID which we all use for chatting like a female, awesome fun with people calling a number XXX73513 and then Jiri picking up and acting like an escort service agent. Well enough of this.

    I think I should look in Pure BhaiyaтАЩs room, one of my best buds in the senior batch. Awesomely brained & very hard working, I have real fun with him at times and he is a nice happy shappy types fellow. Cares for me & Sajeev a lot. I miss Sajeev though, quite some time since I experienced his histrionics, his would be a tale of simple boy going not so simple thanks to Sex (not the verb, but a proper noun, yes someone in flesh & blood, actually too much of flesh).

    Oh even Pure Bhai is out, where the hell is everyone, being late from office doesnтАЩt mean you miss the action. I think they should be in our township mess.

    Trying to bring a revolution in Speech Technology, back in those days it was considered biggest thing after Graham BellтАЩs own invention, Voice Recognition and that too for so many regional languages. Daily office work included recordings, creating fancy scripts with JeDi, gaming & life lessons from dhavesh & his wonderful encounters with Bhakti our ex Mtech student. On top of it you had a bell labs return white shirted, steamy idli eating leader & a budding love story of geeky-techie IITian with a lady in office (who looked slightly older than him). The boss was a delightful idli-popping guy with super crisp white shirts (always) with changing trouser colours, accompanied by a recent Swiss import.

    Also featuring were a few other teams BREWing mobile apps, Voice apps team back in college & a traffic signal team famous for doing mostly nothing. That team consisted of a brainy happy & a geeky chunnu mobile.

    Walking down towards the mess I found chunnu sinking into his super cool blue displayed handset. Mobiles are a new thing, I have one from Siemens & itтАЩs a rare thing to caryy one. But chunnu thinks in a few days everyone would carry this, I donтАЩt think more than 10% of population would ever have it. Just now in May TRAI removed the incoming charges & at max it would let them sell a few more. This is a fad like many others.

    I reach the mess and the first thing I see is a somewhat odd looking BPS sitting with Methi on the roadside. BPS is not regular today, with his long hair messed up and his fingers waving, he looksтАж.drunk.

    Are they all DRUNK???

    BPS calls me as he is towards finishing his awesome lecture to Methi (lectured only first & last time in his life on this date) on the topic of тАЬLadki %$%$% hoti haiтАЭ, also walking at a close distance were a few females. Well I would leave them out of this story.

    So BPS told me how I should stay away from girls and never get into them (I have strictly followed him after that J) and I could smell it. For the first time in almost 2 years I saw one of my friendтАЩs in a drunk avasthta & it felt a bit funny. Well being in a dry state had resulted in a very different engineering college where students got a high from installing/uninstalling Linux, downloading movies & playing all types of games.

    Off I moved to the TT table. On the stairs I met this bearded guy who said high, wonder what he does here, he always stands here, doesnтАЩt look like the chaukidaar but his beard looks irritating. Few of us ended up having a discussion on the possibility of him being gay & maybe even hitting on one of our тАЬHEALTHYтАЭ friend.

    TT table was witnessing an amazing game of TT between (I donтАЩt know who), but the spectator/referee was Pappa, his wavy hair sitting on top of a very brainy brain. But that day the brain had gone on hadtaal as he waved his mundi from side to side & kept on doing it continuously for indefinite time. When I approached to have a conversation he just sshhhed me away.

    I met Sacchi in mess & he told me about the party thrown by Pure Bhai for some reason. It seems lot of everything had been drunk & everyone was waving around. And then I met khautтАж

    He shouted & became normal just the next moment. He asked me to play carom. The small boy who served us food in mess came to us and Khaut all of a sudden slapped himтАж тАЬLadkiyo ko pahle khaana deta hai, humein nahi тАЬ

    Small boy stunned & I was in a donтАЩt know what to do state. So I just walked away from there. Later that night I had the scary task of walking back Khaut to our room.

    As I prepared my bed I thought, well I will never touch alcohol.

    Omitted a few incidents, changed a few names, all for fun. By the way I broke the pledge sometime in the summer of 2005, had a White Mischief with Shotu & co. at Mt. Abu, then waited till Bangalore & CAT incidents to let hell break loose. But this was my first true interaction with the concept of getting drunk. All thanks to Lodhivali J

  • Yellow

    All characters in this story are fictional and bear no resemblance to anyone dead or living

    2005

    After the great Mumbai floods engineers were repairing the sewer system of the city, an engineer mistakenly planted dynamite on one of the lines, the blast was big, and it released crores of tonnes of pure Golden shit on one of the suburbs of mumbai. To check the devestation all the shit was diverted to a large 25000 acre area designated for a SEZ soon. Area sinked, and it definitely stinked.

    In that plot was hidden long back, a treasure of immense value, all of it pure gold.

    Present Day

    Bhairav is the coolest rag picker in the town of Mumbai, has two of everything, but misses the essential thing which should exist in pair. Apprently his boxing buddy, Langdu Sethji with manly boobs and a raunchy paunch kicked him in his gehnas once. From that day, Bhairav yearns for everything in pairs.

    Langdu and Bhairav are the best rag pickers in town, but Langdu can swim saala, and that too in shit. Bhairav wants to go for treasure in the shit laden area, but Langdu says no.

    Langdu’s wife munni is an expert in picking rag underpants, which she even tries on herself at times. she is hot though and even Bhairav has the hots for her ;). Munni says she is poor (thats why lesser clothes) & wants to be rich & start a Safai Vidyalaya on the lines of one by Baapu at Ahmedadbad.

    Cut Scene– Andheri

    Langdu’s brother is the top begger in Andheri, popularly known as Spam he also rides in a haathgaadi (Shaan movie’s Mazhar Khan style). At night he takes part in an underground haathgaadi drifitng race. Haathgaadi race expert Don Karnash challenges him in front of his hot eucuch friend chikki. Chikki drops her pallu for the race to begin, and Spam wins it. Don Karnash asks spam to deliver a box for him which he misplaces. In between he falls in love with Chikki. Don Karnash him for life and even burns is haathgaadi. Spam hitchhikes and reaches the boundaries of Shithole where Munni, Bhairav & Langdu are waiting…

    (I am cutting on the hit song, Haggi Waggi, by Chilly Min-Hug and few other songs…)

    These guys hang out near the shit pond, singing Balluuuu, yeh saans pukaare, Baluuu…

    and all of a sudden appears Balu, along with Madam Ritika Mahalingam and Kid Cloud waala. Punter and Dolly are not seen though.

    It seems Balu is a dushman of Don Karnash & wants him badly. In the mean time Langdu developes a liking for Madam Mahalingam, much to the distaste of munni, who starts wearing even dirtier and smaller rags to catch his attention.

    Climax

    Don Karnash wants money from spam for loosing his box of whatever, 50 Mn Zimbabwean Dollars. As Spam and others are unaware about the latest currency rates they get scared and plan to go for the treasure. Balu has a seaplane which can carry them to shitpond and Langdu knows the location. It seems his dad almost reached the treasure. When he tells the story Kid Cloudwaala realises that he is Langdu & spam’s brother who got lost on the day of floods.

    But Langdu has a secret to share.

    It seems their dad was off to find some treasure and he found it somewhere in the mid of shit pond, but Langdu was having loosemotions that day, and he used to the pond to do you know what. The level started rising and his dad lost control and sunk and died. Langdu is scared of that place.

    But he is convinced and Balu drops him using his seaplane to the location. Here they put the anchor, Madam Mahalingam & Munni cook food and the guys go for treasure hunting.

    Shit main tairne ke teen golden rule,

    – Never breath
    – Hamesha Saath main raho
    – Never shit…otherwise, you know what can happen

    They find the treasure, but Don Karnash comes and as usual grabs the heroines. Then they come out of rooms and the dress area of their arms is removed (remember the old movies, what this signified, confused me ). Anyways heros have found the treasure now (100 20 KG toilets made of solid gold), but Balu starts breathing and dies of the smell, being heavy he sinks too. The others float back, fight and rescue heriones. Bhairav is found missing.

    Don Karnash tells everyone that he and Bhairav planned this and now he would kill everyone. Bhairav comes up and tells that he fooled everyone because Langdu being color blind too was the only one who could have spotted Yellow in Yellow. so he picked him and made a fool of him. He runs away and kills Don Karnash on the way by flushing him in the pond.

    Madam Mahalingam uses the seaplane to go away and other live happily, but one day Bhairav calls and tells them that he has progressed from being a rag picker to India’s largest toilet manufacturer, all Yellow in color. And Chikki is his wife or something.

    **The End**

    Request: Dont watch Blue, please