I am back...back on the blog after quite sometime... first I was feeling too lazy to write and then I hit a writer's block :).
By the way..what a crazy October it has been . It was started off with the Durga Puja ..something that all , us Bengalis, look forward to . New clothes , festivities and merry making but instead - on the first day of the Puja ( Sasthi) - Tatas announced the pull out of the Nano plant from Bengal... and if that was not enough, on the Asthami day Sourav Ganguli announced his retirement. WOW!! enough for a staunch bengali like me to boycott the Pujas :( .
While all this was going on the economy is on its own free fall. And everyone seems to have an opinion about it ..but no one seems to know what to do . Today morning ,I was with my doctor and we spent almost 45 mins talking about the world economy and the india share market and how his patients have dwindled over the last 10 days . Evening I went to buy chicken and realised that the prices have gone up. Gullu, the guy at the shop, started speaking to me about the Indian economy and explained that the reason of increase in price is due to the "domino effect"- Gullu is a vegetarian and since he has to pay more for his vegetables, I will have to pay more for the chicken...how very sad..... So to cheer myself up, I drove down to Barista hoping that watching the hustle and bustle of the coffee shop will brighten me up. How wrong I was ..there were only 3 people in the shop , only 3 on a Saturday evening!!! when otherwise there is no place to sit , everyone sitting quietly , drinking coffee and watching NDTV Profit on TV.... (I have never seen this channel playing in any Barista before... normally i have seen Channel V or MTV or sports channel playing)... and everyone was busy watching how the sensex has fallen from 20,000+ to below 10000 and too on a day that Sourav Ganguli scored a century and Australia lost 4 wickets on a very paltry score and no one was watching cricket!!! Sitting there I was reminded of a Thomas Hood poem that I read long time back-
By the way..what a crazy October it has been . It was started off with the Durga Puja ..something that all , us Bengalis, look forward to . New clothes , festivities and merry making but instead - on the first day of the Puja ( Sasthi) - Tatas announced the pull out of the Nano plant from Bengal... and if that was not enough, on the Asthami day Sourav Ganguli announced his retirement. WOW!! enough for a staunch bengali like me to boycott the Pujas :( .
While all this was going on the economy is on its own free fall. And everyone seems to have an opinion about it ..but no one seems to know what to do . Today morning ,I was with my doctor and we spent almost 45 mins talking about the world economy and the india share market and how his patients have dwindled over the last 10 days . Evening I went to buy chicken and realised that the prices have gone up. Gullu, the guy at the shop, started speaking to me about the Indian economy and explained that the reason of increase in price is due to the "domino effect"- Gullu is a vegetarian and since he has to pay more for his vegetables, I will have to pay more for the chicken...how very sad..... So to cheer myself up, I drove down to Barista hoping that watching the hustle and bustle of the coffee shop will brighten me up. How wrong I was ..there were only 3 people in the shop , only 3 on a Saturday evening!!! when otherwise there is no place to sit , everyone sitting quietly , drinking coffee and watching NDTV Profit on TV.... (I have never seen this channel playing in any Barista before... normally i have seen Channel V or MTV or sports channel playing)... and everyone was busy watching how the sensex has fallen from 20,000+ to below 10000 and too on a day that Sourav Ganguli scored a century and Australia lost 4 wickets on a very paltry score and no one was watching cricket!!! Sitting there I was reminded of a Thomas Hood poem that I read long time back-
"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn,
Stand, shawdowless like Silence,listening
to Silence"
BUT I am an ever optimist , so I am sure we will be out of this economic downturn soon.... and I am sure that all this noise of debt is just a new Bollywood gimmick of promoting its new movie Karzzzz (Sorry Himesh, not sure how many zzzs you have put in there...wish you had called it KaRsss or Kar$$$$).
Bye for now..as I go back to watching CNBC ..
Ramen
3 comments:
Hi Ramen
It's shocking to know that Barrista has started playing NDTV, another reason for me not to go there. I prefer CCD and I think they make better Cappucino. I am not sure of the other coffee. Gullu is a nice example to illustrate the Domino effect. I hope we come out of it soon. I also hope for Obama presidency... fit, nice, youth, intelligent and coloured. My opion about the recession is that they knew it was coming but they chose to ignore it and now it's here. I'm sure we'll soon be out of it and i hope we learn our lessons.
Later
Nitin
Hi Boss,
I, for one dont have an opinion on the Economy but am surely not investing in the stock market. The reason for that may also be the perpetually empty pockets :)
The one thing that I have been keenly following though has been the US presidential election and like Nitin, I am rooting for Obama. Thanks to Vikram I sat through the last 2 debates as well and was totally floored by Obama and Biden. Vikram on the other hand couldnt go beyond Ms Palin for obvious reasons ;)
I strongly believe that Karzzz is meant to clear the debts on Himesh's 2 hair weaves or maybe get him another cap to add to his 2000 cap collection. That depends on which way the movie goes....UP or DOOWN...so yeah...it surely should have been Kar$$$
And so what if the Pujas were a dampner...Diwali is round the corner...ENJOY!!!
Happy Diwali
Deepti
Hi,
A very interesting Post! and so well written!
Last sunday at the fish market i too was shocked as Sheik the shop owner told me that the price is high as "America mey meltdown ho raha hai aur hamara to Allah barosey hai didi!"
I had smiled and thought to myself - Oh the economy!
Your post just tells us how much more aware people are - and true, guess its a good time to learn our lessons and 'Save for a rainy day'
Remember the ant and the grasshopper story?
Keep writing ... its real good post!
Cheers!
Sangha
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