Brazenness is the order of the day…that its flavor is Gall and Wormwood to the mouth hardly matters to its practitioners.
pong [pɒŋ] Brit informal
n
a disagreeable or offensive smell; stink
vb
(intr) to give off an unpleasant smell; stink
[perhaps from Romany pan to stink]
pongy adj
Noun | 1. |  pong - an unpleasant smell |
(Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pong)
Brand Repositioning
I hope I am not being a spoiler in the party that celebrates shining India
Bye… Bye… Miss American Pie…
As you breeze past in your swanky car to be stopped at the crossroads at a traffic signal post and enjoy the view outside of the changing land( and sky)scape, you are rudely woken up by a child knocking on the closed glass pane -asking for some help. Your driver takes care of him, though not before your little wish of realizing an American dream right here in India
My Child, Their Child
I usually do not miss out the “Hinger Kachori” whenever I visit Dakhineswar. The quality has no doubt dwindled over the years but so what? There is another reason though why I don’t enjoy it anymore. As my child enjoys the kachori another cleans up the table at the other end. The Kachori tastes gall and wormwood now. Thanks to Braithwaite for allowing me to discover the essence of those words-yet again.
Lone Voices
At an Indian Chambers of Commerce Interactive Session at the Bengal Club, my childhood icon, the revered journalist M J Akbar laments to the gathering- it is difficult to bring change in this country. “At every level there is a vested interest that doesn’t want the change to happen because his interest shall get affected,” he says. Wow…how true and obvious yet I never thought of it earlier. Akbar gets emotive referring to the state’s advertorial in the morning’s newspapers: declaring that the gun has not be able to achieve a job or a meal (and therefore should be abandoned) but shamelessly remains silent on how it can be.
30 Minutes Pizza, No Ambulance
As a popular mail forward does the round wondering why if Pizza can be delivered in 30 minutes why an ambulance can’t reach in similar time…and staying on food the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme meet on working out modalities for jobs for the poor has a food bill of just under 2 lacs for 130 participants to care of, apart from jobs! As brazen as it gets;
Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts, so…
Let there be no power- seems to the easiest route available for those who run the system and what’s more, it comes with such freebies as bytes on methods of self management of power (by turning off ACs etc after dusk etc.)
Indian Pong League
My very own coinage as the vicious circle of con currency convertibility modalities surface for the sake of the sports’ good; In a country where the percentage of those who achieve a square meal is anybody’s guess, there is also a mad scramble for the prized seat beside Shah Rukh Khan for a fortune for many others. This brazen display of opulence is again…gall and wormwood. After all, Gayle bared by choice at that Pong League party; the boy who was begging bare at my car hadn’t a choice.
(Offline, Special Impacts, April 2010)
