The Hindu is for sale

BUT I WOULD NOT BUY IT. WHY?

Early Sunday morning on a cold winter day in Delhi, you can be only doing one thing happily: Sitting inside your quilt and enjoying tea. If just then, someone knocks on the door, then it better be something important. On one of such a cold Sunday morning, someone knocked. I opened the door. The person introduced himself as being a distributor of The Hindu. I continued talking to him without opening the door but he insisted I open the door with his hand movements. I opened it. HE HANDED ME A COPY OF The Hindu and started asking questions. More stress was on his English than the questions he asked as if he had just returned from those theoretical Learn English in 30 days and was not doing the practicals. He asked me my name, qualification and so on. He then asked me my phone number. I said I had none. He asked for landline etc any number. I kept firm and NO was the answer. AS YOU LIKE IT, he again tried his practicals on me.

Finally he came to the point. Start taking THE HINDU from 12th was the message this whole conversation was meant for. I told him I would be informing my newspaper wala if I needed it. He said something which only he could understand and then said would come again next week. WELCOME was something I could not utter and I DID NOT WANT TO ALSO.

Finally he almost snatched the copy of The HINDU he had given to me saying that it was a reference copy just to show. Even if there was half a chance of me betting on buying a HINDU, that was the last one.

Mere Filmi MiyaJi!

This is what my wife has to say to me everytime we talk. A lot of this can be credited to me for my incessant use of Bollywood dialogues on every situation with her.

a) I love long hairs BUT today morning I happened to tell my wife to get a BOB cut. Why? Actually every second is precious in the morning when we are fighting the WAR TO CATCH THE BUS, and if she goes for a BOB cut, it would save us a couple of precious minutes. But my wife was ready for it. Pat came her reply: BUT you told me you love big hair. Pat came by filmi dialogue:
Movie: Lakshaya
Dialogue: Agar mali banna hai to sabse acha ghaas katne wala bano. Agar scientist banna hai to sabse acha scientist bano. Agar bal bade karne hai, to sabse lambe baal karo. Phew....

b) Later in the day she asked me how to copy and paste certain text while chatting. Bollywood set me thinking and out came my reply:
Movie: Sholay
My Reply: Woh to main usi tarah sikhaunga jaise Dharmendra ne Hema ko gun se shoot karna sikhaya tha

Stay informed!

Stay Informed, YOU WILL HAVE TO EVEN IF YOU DO NOT WANT because they would leave you with no other choice.

I had applied for an IPO of Edelweiss. I was allocated 8 shares and I came to know about it in the following ways:

1. SMS from NSDL
2. SMS from ICICI Direct
3. E-Mail from the Registrar
4. Money refunded to my account was lesser than what I had applied for

Needless to stay, the same thing was said to me in 4 different ways and coming back to my favorite topic of Bollywood, it reminded me of Amitabh singing this to his beloved:

Angrezi mein kehte hai ki I love you
Gujrati maan bole tane prem karun su
Bengali mein kehte hai Ami tomake balo bashi
aur punjabi mein kehte hai Teri taan, ke main tenu pyaar karna waa

Now I wonder had Amitabh said it in only one language would he have won her heart or was it love at first sight, so he did not know what language the lady spoke and hence he tried all of them one by one. Anyways, at the end of the movie, he had won her over and I ALSO KNOW FOR SURE THAT I HAVE RECEIVED 8 STOCKS OF EDELWEISS.