Now for some forwarded SMSs, one in Hindi and another in Marathi:
अर्ज है
जाते है शाख शाखको देते हुए दुआ
आंधीसे बच गए तो इसी रुतमे आयेंगे
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एक सांज अशी तिचा रंग ज़रा लाल
माझ्या कपाळाला तुझ्या धुळीचा गुलाल
एक रात्र अशी तुझे सीतेपरी डोळे
रुप पाहताना नभी अंधार पाजळे
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Yesterday night I was watching a program on the Discovery channel "Why Ancient Egypt Fell". It was in English and right in the middle of it, the language switched to Hindi. I must have listened for 5 minutes before I realized the change. I was so taken by surprise that for a moment I wondered if I had inadvertently changed the channel. :-) And then equally inexpicably, after some time, the language changed back to English. Very weird!
The other day I was watching a program on Ice-cream parlors in the US on Discovery Travel and Living channel. There's one in Manhattan called "Serendipity 3" that sells an ice-cream containing world's costliest chocolate and edible 23 carat Gold - at $1000! If only poor King Midas knew about edible gold :-)
I had picked up Agatha Christie’s “The Mysterious Mr. Quin” thinking that it is one novel – but to my immense delight it turned out to be a collection of short stories. What a treat!
I finished it in no time but when I went back to the library to exchange it for a collection of 4 novels that I had earlier seen I found that it was already issued out. That meant I spent the next half an hour hunting for another book. Fortunately I saw one of Clive Cussler’s – The Chase – on a lower shelf. This came as a surprise because earlier I had asked one of the attendants if the library had any more of Cussler’s books and he had replied in the negative.
I checked the brief storyline printed at the back and found it interesting so I got it issued. But since then I have been wondering if I made the right choice. So far I have been reading about a thug called “Butcher Bandit” who goes on looting banks in small mining towns but I have no idea how he connects up with the 3 bodies in the locomotive fished out of some lake. Add to that, the boring descriptions of guns, bikes and other assorted stuff! Cussler has so far let me down. :-(
I finished it in no time but when I went back to the library to exchange it for a collection of 4 novels that I had earlier seen I found that it was already issued out. That meant I spent the next half an hour hunting for another book. Fortunately I saw one of Clive Cussler’s – The Chase – on a lower shelf. This came as a surprise because earlier I had asked one of the attendants if the library had any more of Cussler’s books and he had replied in the negative.
I checked the brief storyline printed at the back and found it interesting so I got it issued. But since then I have been wondering if I made the right choice. So far I have been reading about a thug called “Butcher Bandit” who goes on looting banks in small mining towns but I have no idea how he connects up with the 3 bodies in the locomotive fished out of some lake. Add to that, the boring descriptions of guns, bikes and other assorted stuff! Cussler has so far let me down. :-(
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