WHAT'S IN THE STORE

Welcome 2008.Now the question is what is in the store for us?Well by us i mean what's there for me and you personnaly?What's in store for our family?Last but not least what's there for us as society or as a country?Personally as Bejaan Daruwalla would say You will have Blah Blah Blah......of which one can't make out head or tail.Then of course he has his name Bejaan and plus he is Daruwalaa too.No fun intended. But i am no Nastrodamus or the astrologers who eat up lot of spectrum on the idiot box these days.Though everybody has right to speculate it might have some logic who knows.
I start with me 'Thou shall tend to make less and spend more ofcourse the Dime','One will move from place A to B'ofcourse i am due for my posting.'You might grow socially'I dont know seeing the previous two predictions i should hope for the best or otherwise.The list can go on and on.
Cutting the long list short i move to you. If you are an investor in stock market make hay while it shines.Not the sun but the bullish market.For other sector updates do read Economic times.Inflation will drive the expenditure so spend .If you are in private sector your salary will grow at least at 14 %.If you are with the Government you will have to wait for the 6th pay commission or the Elections which ever happens soon.So all those looking forward for it pray for Karats to pull some strings.
In tune i move on to the larger sector widening my horizons.Politically the country will be in state of flux like the last half century.We shall have elections and some constitutional interventions.Though one hopes for the devine one.On the security front The government will spend more and people will be more insecure than ever.Not even the security forces would be spared in the hinterland.We shall hear lot about Laskars,the maoists,the caste heralders and the religious zionists.You while reading it may tend to brand me pessimist.We shall talk again on the issue sometime later.Oh i forgot The Global war on terror would continue.Moving on to Sports. Olympics does that ring some bells.Medals tally!My safest bet would be on shooters and Archers and women athletes .On cricket on foriegn soil we would be routed at home we would flourish.On hockey well it would be some time before we have some other movie coming like chak de .Don't hope for more and pray India qualifies for the olympics.Though personal brilliance in sports would make headlines.Of all what i have written i have not touched the issue of Global warming and Natural calamities as it is it would be on News quite often.
After all these we still hope for a wonderful 2008.So keeping in tune and style here is looking at you kid A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.

BHUTAN DIARY

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खुश रहो एहले वतन हम तो सफ़र करते हैं II

LESSON AT KALIGHAT

CALCUTTA ok Kolkota 31 Aug 07
I had taken a break after a long time and i was joined by my friends Rohit,Abhishek Kanti and Deepak.We were having a good time when Abhishek was ordered to pay his respect at Kalighat by his mother.A holy shrine dedicated to Goddess Kali in South kolkota.It is one of the 51 shakti peeth.The right toe of Dakshayani is said to have fallen here. The Shakti here is known as Kalika, while the Bhairava is Nakulesh. It is a very famous place and a pilgrimage for Shakta (Shiva and Durga/Kali/Shakti worshippers) followers within the Hindu religion.

Four of us as soon as we set afoot there were swarmed by panda community.Finally one of them was hired by our friend abhishek.We all posed as students so he agreed to charge just Rs 21.we thought thank God.Abhishek being a smart executive of a reputed mobile company thought he has struck agreat business deal.He opened up to the gentleman came to know his roots even.The gentleman was from Darbhanga in Bihar , was there for generations and he even came to know his ancestral village and all that in few paces to the shop where we had to take of our shoes and buy prashad.Being a smart MBA graduate that he was we bought prasad almost worth 300 rs and there went our cover of students.

The Gentleman from Darbhanga introduced us to another man as his nephew and from there onwards he was to be our mentor.We walked another few paces and were made to buy some flowers and bangles of lah for the deity . In the search for greater blessings or sanctimoniously or for fear of unknown we did as was told.The moment we landed inside the temple we were marked by another three pandas and made to pay the patronage to the deity separately.Later on we realised we had paid according to our purses.The way they were selling the blessings of The Goddess was a lesson for all sales person. We were made to visit the temple with a time lag or in phased manner so that we could not negotiate the blessings together a lesson for our Diplomats and businessmen.This time when they are negotiating further on 123 at NSG they must come here once.Fianlly when we came out we all were penny wise a lesson for our financial wizards.

And I was made wordly wise of the organised economy of Temples and holy shrines.How there is a symbiotic existence of priests,prashad shops,flower shops,souviner shops and beggars. Military wise i was tactically and strategically wiser and ofcourse we all were blessed by The Goddess Kali in one way or the other.