Labour

 

Someone send this prophetic message:

America is in Labour. In 24 hours we will know if it's a boy or girl.

I said, 'Amen to that, with the caveat that it could be an 'Other' too.'

By the way: UK has been in Labour for some months now, and will remain so for many months.

Best wishes on Bhai Dhooj

 

Away brothers miss their sisters a lot. And those brothers who don't have sisters miss them even more.

Blaming the weather for not worsening the weather

 

Late last month the 'environmentalists' were insinuating that the air quality in the National Capital Region (NCR) of India would go horrendously bad post Diwali, the festival where folks burst crackers and light lamps to welcome Bhagwan Ram.

Western media were the cheerleaders for these environmentalists, as I posted earlier:

https://hunterfiftyfour.blogspot.com/2024/10/ahead-of-halloween-or-ahead-of-diwali.html

As it turned out the air quality of the NCR did not go down. In fact, it was the best (post Diwali) since 2015.

The 'environmentalists' are hapless. They are now blaming weather for not worsening the weather (read, air quality). Read here about that.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/weather-rescues-citys-air-2nd-cleanest-post-diwali-since-2015/articleshow/114860962.cms

How woke is that? 

Hold a candle to the sun

 

Hold a candle

to the sun,

Light a million lamps:

One in each alley,

One in each galley,

One in each bunker,

One in each trench,

One in each cockpit,

One in each hangar,

One in each langar,

One on each sangarh,

One at each nala track junction,

One on each lone tree hill,

Then fire a red over red*

Into the night,

And turn the night into day.

red over red*: A type of illuminating round fired from a signal pistol, fired after winning a battle.

Ahead of Halloween or ahead of Diwali?

 

The vilification of our festival Diwali has already started in the Western Media:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/28/asia/india-pakistan-smog-diwali-intl-hnk/index.html

The media outlet could have easily said 'ahead of Halloween'

Do the blind dream?

 

Someone sent me this wonderful quote of Kabir.

I was reminded of a question that a friend asked me sometime back, 'Do the blind dream? What do they see?'

'Dog' biscuits

 

Someone forwarded this video. Was supposed to be a Marketing lesson, and how projection of  words are pivotal in marketing.

It is curious, however, when I thought about 'Dog' biscuits. In the mid seventies and a little after, I was in the National Defence Academy, or, NDA. At reveille, we cadets, would rush to the Tearoom, for our morning mug of tea. Alongside, we were given two biscuits, which were strangely called 'Dog' biscuits. I don't know the history behind that name but we didn't mind the name for we cadets were forever famished and just gobbled them up without much ado.

But the story goes just a little further...

We have, what we call Quarterly Messing Meetings in the Forces where the folks dining in a particular Mess would voice their opinion about the standard of messing in that Mess. In NDA, of course, no such formal meeting was held with respect to the messing in the  Cadets' Mess. But, once in a while the Cadet Sergeant Major (CSM) - he was of the senior most term - would take a muster of all cadets before we marched for dinner and ask our opinion about the standard of messing in the Cadets' Mess. I remember, in my third term, in one such muster I mumbled under breath, 'Sir, the biscuits in the morning are fine, but can we at least change the name of the biscuits from 'Dog biscuits' to something else?' 

Immediately, late Vivek Chopra, my coursemate, shushed me and said, 'Shut up you idiot, unless you want to roll in the ground floor corridor throughout the night.'

And, I did shut up.

I don't know what those biscuits are called now. Anyone?