Meri Jaan, I am really humbled by some of your emails and responses. For some of you still looking for me on EBC Radio, I have moved from New Jersey to Pune, India (The move to SWADES is permanent FOR NOW, becoz to be honest even I dont know whats coming next, but I will definitely be coming down to visit Oak Tree town in the next few years :)
But, I can promise that I will always respond to you on email, so please keep those wonderful emails flowing.
Meri Jaan, while summer has picked up in the US, it is hot, and raining around this side of the world.
For folks from around Pune, rains mean Lonavala, National Chikki, Joshi Vada, Khandala, Sinhgad, Ambey Valley, Tiger Point, Mahabaleshwar, Bushy Dam, Mulshi and endless fun in the rain.Sahee main, Baarish ka mazaa in apna-des is something else !
Kahin bhi garam-garam chai and vada paav, pakode, samose, or those bhajias ummm.. !!
While rain brings in those kind of fun in our lives, it is interesting that politics also starts to get rainin-ly funny around this time!
Recently there was almost a scene from a desi flick - It was time for
Baba Ramdev to come on-stage in the morning, the crowd was cheering "Baba-re-Baba yeh kya ho gayaa" all night long, and at the crack of dawn, local police authorities did a WWF smackdown on his supporters and followers. To prevent getting from arrested, Baba wore a salwar-kurta and asked two of his followers to take him away.
While Baba was on-foot, a police van saw a lady been assisted by two other women and offered help. No longer did they come close they realized, hey, this is no lady, but someone with a beard - hold on, this is Baba trying to escape amidst the hoopla dressed as a lady. Pakdo !! Pakdo Pakdo !!Phones start buzzing all around - Fas gaye re Baba, Yeh kya ho gayaa !!
Now thats a night of some lathi action for these overweight police academy mamas!! All right everyone now time to go back on that DK Bose action ! And the media goes abuzz again !
For some of you Bheja-fry-types-that know all-or-want-to-know-it-all types, Baba Ramdev is a yoga and health-fitness guru. He has a business empire that goes beyond crores, billions and trillions of USD. He even has a island in Scotland given to him by his devotees to teach Yoga and offer the perfect spa relaxation.
He travels in his chartered jets and swooshes in "imported" cars. It seems someone poked him the wrong way on his empire's accounting status and now he is going to not let them sleep peacefully.
Well, lets hope some crackers fly as this time lots of I wanna be in the limelight kinds, some lone crusaders and Anna Hazare's might join Baba in his demands. Not sure where all this will end, but like they say, its all fair for the love of poli-tics !!
So, while Baba is on his crusdade, another old man is on his crusade, and that is the Young looking BBuddah in the industry - and I dont mean Dev Anand !! Amitabh Bachchan is coming in a new movie called "Bbuddah hoga tera baap", and the promos look dashing !So, all the best Bachchan saab, hopefully we will get to see the good old man doing thoda action-thoda jackson, kyonki tum jahaa khade ho jaate ho line wahee se shuru hoti hain !!
If you are not into Bolly-wood or Poli-tics, well tennis was brilliant in the last few weeks as Nadal beat Federer in the French open. It was a brilliant game in Men's segment and if you did not know this already, the new French open winner in the women's segment is Chi-na's Li-na (damn!! China is picking up everywhere)Meri Jaan, if you are not into any of that, and all you do is travel for work day-in-day-out and keep searching on travelocity for travel deals or on ubid and cnet for tech stuff, watch out for that Apple iCloud, its going to create a big Thunderstorm, and yes another on your radar should be the Chromebook laptop with Google OS and not MS Windows !
Meri Jaan, duniya-ki-happenings se away, if you are one of those who has been away from all this because of the dilemma of Des-Prem V/s X+1 US Syndrome and What will happen to my kid's education if I move, and still keep asking urself if it is a good or bad idea to move back to "woh jo des hain tera". All I wil say is that decision is all YOURS.
Each place has its good and bad attributes, its all about where and how you want to end up, Note: Tomorrow never dies, but you will and so will the people around you! So a lot actually depends on your circumstances and priorities in life !
Meri Jaan, so, whether you feel happy about Kanimozhi in Jail, or Rajni Superstar feeling better and getting ready for RANA, or sad because 26/11 Rana getting aquitted or why was READY made without any storyline or Picasso of India passing away at an early age of 95 or why did I MF Strauss do what he did or who is Ranbir dating next or who and what is Mallika doing next, or Which Euro-nation is going out next, or which Middle eastern country is going down next, or Is US debt going to go away ever, go ahead and do some soul searching on those thoughts, grab a hangover-tini, stay happy, but most important-ly stay in lo-eve !!
- Pankaj Purohit
