Masala Mix

Long long long time.
Yes, it's been quite a while since I have put anything here. This leads to the realisation that it's fairly easy to start something but it is difficult to sustain things. Having said that "well begun is half done", naa?

Suddenly I'm in the midst of lots of travel. Last fortnight I was all over - Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. Well, all of this was touch-and-go and I failed to touch base with friends there. Talking of Travel, read that Abhishek was to create a Guinness Book Record by covering six cities in a day to promote his 'Delhi 6'. Private jet and all that.

Media went hysterical on the 'pink chaddi' campaign.



What happened? Did Muthaliar recieved the chaddis? Did he accept? What would become of all those chaddis - who knows! God knows why fundamentalists all over the world suddenly have become sooo active! At Swat, Taliban was able to arm-twist the Pakistani governement (no prizes for guessing who the real boss is). In US, the 'Chimpanzee cartoon' echoed the racial stereotype of depicting blacks as monkeys (Bhajji amused?).



Somewhere in the blog I have mentioned about my incorrigible romanticism. This was re-inforced as I watched SRK's Billu Barber (oops! just Billu, no barber; god! whatever is happening to our collective tolerance!). I enjoyed the movie like I haven't enjoyed one for a long-long time. Perfect Romanticism! A powerful god-like star and a bechara gareeb gaon ka barber - and the `friendship' transcends even the huge wall which usually gets erected around superhuman(image of)superstars! If Dev-D was a modern take on Sarat Chandra's Devdas, Billu seemed a modern take on Krishna-Sudama's fairy-tale story. The movie heightened my romanticism to such extent that I was crying buckets of Khushi-ke-Aansu towards the end (my poor friend - she must've been scared like hell, though she just reacted my making some fun of the tears rolling down my cheeks).



Another on-your-face message was how our society in general treats people when they are successful/important and how the same ones are dumped and ridiculed when they are no more important.

Am excited about my upcoming business trip to Vegas next week. Hope to get more spicier masala mix! Keep pouring your views/feedback. Without them, the blog is not even worthwhile.

[Anuradhaji, apologize for removing your post 'moral of the story'. I was getting envious of your 3rd successive post whereas I wasn't able to put any ;) ]