Wednesday

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT!












This is an extremely illuminating sms conversation happened one night between two friends

verbaliser no.1: "ask for the impossible v'd love to oblige"..nice line aint it?

verbaliser no.2: yeah apt!where did ya find it?or your own

verbaliser no.1: i wish it was my own ,its the tag line of zuri hotels and resorts

verbaliser no.1: gandhi's spectacles r worth 20 lakhs ..our Indians r sentimental fools...wats ta need for wasting so much money??!!
jai ho!!

verbaliser no.2: Those ppl somehow got hold of gandhi's stuff man.Our Indian gov never even bothered to retrieve em back.

verbaliser no.1: il tell you ta story of spectacles..brace yourself..

verbaliser no.2: okay.im all ears.or eyes to be precise

verbaliser no.1:There was this great grandson of ta nawab of junagarh who after partition asked gandhi for inspiration....okay?

verbaliser no.2: okay.So gandhi gave his glasses?inspiration?

verbaliser no.1:Bapu handed over ta spectacles to him saying "these gave me ta vision to free india"
okay?

verbaliser no.2: How ta hell did ta junagarh guy surrender it to those bloody americans??

verbaliser no.1: Those glasses went into the games of some american who discovered its historical value! okay?


verbaliser no.1: He decides to auction em...N outta nower ta whole of our nation wich din even bother abt em
is feeling guilty all of a sudden!! emotional drama!

verbaliser no.2: bloody drama! if they care so much,why dont they buy it back?Dont tell me they dont hav ta money for tat??!!

verbaliser no.1: now now my dear ...ta junagarh chap din find em inspirational i guess!

verbaliser no.2:bloody hell.Then he should've said-bapu gimme something more inspirational!

verbaliser no.1: oh no no...its comin to India to adorn our crumbling museums!
terz a twist in ta tale...


verbaliser no.1: when v all know wat our bapu has done isnt tat inspiration enough!
but ofcourse v hav ta jhakaas movie viraasat!!

verbaliser no2: wats anil kapoors viraasat got to do wid bapu?

verbaliser no.2: where the hell do they have a museum fit to keep such treasures?some vandal will steal it
eventually! like tagores nobel was!damn the entire govt!!

verbaliser no.1: yeah seriously i remember it was all over ta news for lik 2 days...n then vanished!
thin air! public memory is so short lived!!

verbaliser no.2: Ask them to remember abt movie stars and politics.

verbaliser no.1: ta term is viraasat not anil kapur my dear r u hungry?

verbaliser no.2: oh ok.No sweetheart.Not hungry.Even if I was,id hav to resort to cannibalism.Now you would'nt want dat would ya?

verbaliser no. 1: how would it matter?u can do no harm!ok ok ta story!ta twist...

verbaliser no.2: I might gobble you up then-not that youre tempting.You wouldnt even fill up
half my tummy,ill have to only chew on your bones!wats ta twist?


verbaliser no.1: ta maha twist in ta maha tale of ta mahatma's spectacles is....
ta antiquities and art treasures act 1972...okay?

verbaliser no.2: Elaborate....

verbaliser no1: it doesnt permit a private individual to either import or emport an item of historical value!!ridiculous!

verbaliser no.2: wat if ta item was exported or imported before 1972?

verbaliser no.1: now ta rub in ta tale...Indians don want ta damn contraption of emotional value to go under hammer n they just
wanna buy it off...but u cant coz of ta act!!

verbaliser no.2:Funny!!haha.Ought to giv ta lads who framed that law an ovation.They're creatin so much newsthan they did in their entire living times.

verbaliser no1: dats of no concern since v r trying to import it in 2009!

verbaliser no.2: haha!Use em,bend em,propose em,dispose em.So simple.Bloody Indian bureaucracy.

verbaliser no.1: gandhi shud regret not takin care of his eyesight...u hold on to it till i finish eating...

verbaliser no.2: The entire fiasco wouldnt hav occured if hed worn lenses or had a laser surgery!gobble
up your noodles am loving this!


9 comments:

Anusha said...

waah waah!
subhanallah!!!!
the tale of 2 friends having a conversation while a rusty train chugged past all obstacles to bring them even closer.

P.S: Full credit should be given to BSNL,for somehow taming itself to actually deliver the messages with a negligible delay.Airtel played the prefect's role-like it always does.

Gecko said...
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Gecko said...

People auction the weirdest things! Usually stuff without much value or use, like things of everyday use!
I can understand people auctioning a Picasso, or a Rembrandt or Surely a Da Vinci. Or Tippus sword, those are pieces of art, a statement of ancient day craftsmanship, of creativity, of power. But this?? and Kylie auctioned some unmentionables to the highest bidder!
I don't understand, cause, to being with, it was rightfully ours (the glasses i meant) if not for the act or something! and second of all it's not worth fighting for, it's ok to say "yes Gandhi wore glasses and they're in the US now, under lock and key" instead of "yes Gandhi wore these glasses, would you like to try it on, may be take a photo with it?" Heh! peoples attachments to things sometimes become there own undoing! i wonder what happened to whoever who bought Kylie's...... when his wife saw it!
I would like to know who actually bought those glasses what where it finally rested. Seems a little crazy the whole concept, really!

@Anusha
may be the network provider went "we're going 3g anyway, fix this SMS bug also when you update the server macha and remember not to make it a batch process this time!!" haha! I remember my dad's phone, network provider said his phone was not reachable when he was standing right under the tower at Ballal Circle!

Anonymous said...

Thank u for enlightenin us on da issue.,v indians are jus like tat..come on,we still follow educational quota n divide n say v r al equal,.bribing,anti social beliefs,lies..indeed our father o da nation would not b happy with things currently cause his own ideals r not bein kept n followed,.y would he have bothered bout his things lik spec's,clock etc gone to diff places.?Eventually INDIA will buy it out sooner or later, but yet Indeed da old man should b pleased with 1 thing,non violence tat v ardently r following against our friendly neighbourhood..

Vishwas Krishna said...

Nice one.
Bapu handed over ta spectacles to him saying "these gave me ta vision to free india"
Veru funny!
You wouldn't believe, most of the Acts enacted by Indians are nothing but tripe! Can't make a sense of it, without scratching your head.

More on that here. I found even this funny too.
http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/mahatma-gandhis-glasses/

Arjun said...

Tippu's sword, Gandhi's spectacles, i wish Kohinoor were to come next(mr.mallya, betcha cant buy that). U'l be surprised to find this 'achievement' of Mr.M mentioned under the breweries section on the wiki page, funny, but I'm equally thankful to him for his 'high' solutions and the kf calendars n models. I wont call it a waste, it'd rather stay at sabarmati ashram than sm bizmn's house, whatever be the intentions behind mr.m's eyes.

Illuminating it was, so was the rest of the links which i went through after reading your post.

Some more weird laws:
"The Punjab Excise Act still says that when you open a bar, you have to call the ‘DHOL WALA’ (Drummer) to announce its inaugural."
"The Indian Factories Act stipulates that each factory in India should have a water pot in the factory premises to provide drinking water to the employees.In today's world, no one would install a water pot in its factory but would rather prefer to install a water cooler. Even today authorities inspecting the factory pressing for the water pot. The authorities even fined the factory for not having a water pot in its premises. You all will be surprised to know that the huge multiplexes (commercial malls etc) are also categorized as a ‘FACTORY’ according to the statute. Now imagine that all the multiplexes in the country having to put a water pot in their premises."
"One more funny but true instance of law not being amended can be seen in the Punjab Police Act. According to the act the Punjab police has to send daily reports to its headquarters in Lahore. So Pakistan has one more reason to be angry with India as according to the Punjab Police Rules 1914, the act stipulates that the Punjab Police has to keep in touch with it head quarters in Lahore on a daily basis and the rules have not been changed til today—hence they still remain in force."


@no1: I'd thought the habitual 'okay...?'s was limited to vocal conversations. miss.verbaliser no.1, msg mein bhi..?!! twist barli...

Anusha said...

@Arjun

I'm verbaliser 2,not 1.I thought thats evident by the frequency of my okay's.

hari said...

I was just surfing and somehow got connected to your blog, good one i really enjoyed it hmmmm.... i was laughing while i was going through your article, i just like the narrative part and would not comment on bapu's auction issue because i just think both auction and commenting on auction is stupidity anyways keep writing...

Iceman said...

Why are the fonts like that? Gives you the impression you are talking about a murder or something!