Musing Reminisce

Gopal was a son of a farmer in the farmlands of native Mangalore in Karnataka. Agriculture was in his blood as he was born in the land of farming.  Fourth in line of six kids his parents did not go out of their way to overtly express emotions of love.  They loved all their kids equally but were so busy fending to feed these mouths that life just moved at a fast pace for all of them Speaking Kannada and Tulu was sufficient to get along in the village. Schooling in the local hay thatched clay walled structures was bare minimum. As Gopal reached 14 years of physical age but the mind of an adult he realised that he had to uplift his family from the stature that they were stuck in.  He had three sisters one older and two younger and he knew just the burden organising their wedding and the dowries would break his fathers back and destroy his family. It was 1970 -- Dowry was tradition and it had to be done. His father worked very hard in the fields and with all the stress he had...

"Hum tumhe marenge, aur zaroor marenge ... lekin woh bandook bhi hamari hogi, goli bhi hamari hogi aur waqt bhi hamara hoga." Rajkumar as Thakur Rajeshwar Singh blasted out this dialogue in the 1991 movie SAUDAGAR Fast forward 30 years. Take today’s scenario. You guessed right. This dialogue is now Mankind’s reply to Covid 19 The ‘bandook‘ is the syringe and the ‘Goli’ is the vaccine. The ‘Waqt’ had come. It is —— 2021 !! Since Covid 19 got down to ‘bat’ he has been hitting centuries in countries all over the world. Daily death tolls in ‘century and more’ had shaken authorities and taken away loved ones. It had brought humans to its knees and turned bustling metropolis to ghost towns. As in SHOLAY, It had slowly and steadily become the Gabbar Singh of the world. It is 2021 !! It is time for the scientist to stand up to this terror with the help of the two vaccines - Pfizer jab and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine (like Thakur Baldev Singh with Jai and Veeru) and pass on the messa...

The word Chase catapults you to Master of the Chase ---- JAMES Not the James Hadley Chase who ’Hardly Chases’ but the ’Bonding’ James who introduces himself as ‘’MY NAME IS BOND -- JAMES BOND’’ However --- I will not be covering him in my story. My story is not even about a robbery followed by a chase staged in the bank — CHASE BANK. The chasing going back to 1955 when Chase National Bank and The Manhattan Company merged to create The Chase Manhattan Bank followed in 2000 to the chased acquisition of JPMorgan and co to form JPMorgan Chase Bank, shortening the branded name to CHASE. I have based my story on a CHASE which I was a part of close to home and close to my heart or rather my ’NECK’ This happened in England in Sudbury Town --Middlesex county (which also houses the mecca of football - Wembley Stadium) As I lived in Alperton my daily commute involved a morning car drive to Sudbury Town station and after parking the car there, a tube ride on the Piccadilly line to Gloucester Road ...

  DIARY ‘’PRAHLAD HAS SHOT THE PRESIDENT’’ The buzz had started spreading. It initially started in London and was slowly spreading across the www networks -- implying the Whole World WhatsApp groups more than The World Wide Web. Confirmation was not available so this one line was the initial point of news. Questions were being asked on the www — Was it a good shot ? There were no accompanying immediate images or further descriptions. There was also no mention of this on any Reuters official release. Please don't believe this news in its entirety as it is not fully true. Please believe me. He ’is’ not the President. He ’was’ the President. Yes - He was once POTUS He ’was’ the President of the United States of America. He was out in the open. Opportunity came my way -- I could not let it go and I had to take the SHOT. I TOOK IT!! His name - William !! William Jefferson !! Born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas now William Jefferson Clinton !! Known to...