Musing Reminisce

It was peak hour at the bank. The line snaked along the building sides as the queue kept getting longer. People were getting impatient and onlookers were perplexed at this spectacle. They had never seen such crowds or queue’s here before. News started spreading that there was some impropriety which would lead to that bank’s crash. This news also spread verbally like wild fire that people were rushing to the bank to get out their savings and money in time. People over the years had put in their life hard earned savings in deposits at this bank. The safe deposit lockers were stashed with peoples jewellery and important documents. They could not afford to loose it. Unknown to most onlookers 15 people of around 40 in the queue were on a common secret mission. The mission ‘A planned rundown of bank’ This mission was spearheaded and planned intricately by Babu. On the receiving end of their mission was Seth Ghanshyamdas. Ghanshyamdas was a crook. He was a rich crooked crook. Born to middle c...

‘Kuch toh gadbad hai’ This dialogue blasted out from the Bose surround speakers connected to the TV. ACP Pradyuman’s (Shivaji Satam) voice addressing Senior Inspector’s Daya and Abhijeet boomed with assertion. On Sony TV the hit C.I.D. episode — The Inheritance / CID 111 was being aired as a re-run. For all of those in the dark this episode for its record-breaking single shot episode of 111 minutes (1 hour and 51 minutes) had reached Guinness Book of World Records on 7 November 2004. Entitled ’’The Inheritance" it was aired without a cut on this date from 8 – 10 PM IST for the first without a break. This special epic episode had earlier been continuously shot on 8 October 2004 at Lonavala between 6:30 – 8:21 PM IST. The ping on his mobile brought Detective Ketsan Likamb’s attention from TV land back to reality. He was a great fan of C.I.D. and enjoyed watching them over and over again even after so many years. The series which was first telecast on 21 January 1998 is the longest-...

F(*)LL --Ooooops there is no A in FALL pride goeth before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall" Book of Proverbs, 16:18 Armed with his fathers piece of silver, his late uncles shared trivia and with all his grit Bhola was on a warpath. Click — one, two, three, four ——-thirty, thirty one —— seventy five, seventy six — one hundred — Click Click— 1 minute 45 seconds !! Not good. Start from the beginning. Focus and faster recital. This would be the key of winning. He had landed at this juncture because of his name Bhola - simpleton - the local buffoon. He used to have sleepless nights when he reached teen age and realisation hit that he was really not stupid but his name had automatically put him in that bracket. Ravi a rich neighbours son a few years older to him who was a England return, highlighted the difference in the spectrum of comparison. Ravi was a pain in the neck and many people had much lower opinion of him. 24/7 snooty and always going out his way to ridicule peop...

 C.O.S.Y. - Charlie Oscar Sierra Yankee The phonetic alphabets kept reverberating in Rams ears. Though he was away from his desk for almost a month now,images of that fateful day kept flashing accompanied with the audio bytes. He was now at home not cosy at all haunted by those events. As part of his job as a radio controller for a mini cab company (which was a new concept) it was his job to coordinate the drivers and get the optimal utilisation in matching drivers to customers needs. When a person required a cab from destination A to destination B and telephoned the mini cab company it was Ram’s job to find the driver closest to A and pass on the job details and route to him. All this was done without computers. Managing a fleet of 10 drivers it was non stop static and conversations in the controllers office. A very cool mind was required with ability to understand customer requirements,mentally compute routes and match it to availability of drivers who could organise the pick up ...