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Coal Cutter, Ouaste Ben Gall – The prelude

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August 21, 2007

krishashok

Deeyear blogreedurs,

Bhee bhill bee in Amaar Shonaar Bangla for the next 2 days.

We hope to find out:

1. What brand of bottled water bottle is particularly preferred by the cricket loving fans of Eden Gardens? Is it mass or projectile aerodynamics that they consider to the more important factor?

2. What will happen if we get a Hilsa from the Padma river, and a Hilsa from the Meghna river and put them in a single tank and name them “Mohun Bagan” and “East Bengal”. And blow a whistle.

3. What is the considered the optimum number of times to shake the old Statesman newspaper containing Jhalmuri, for achieving that perfect “Shaken but not Stirred” taste?

4. What will happen if we walk into a Socialist/Leftist/Marxist adda and scream “You red losers. Ha ha ha. Capitalism rulez Ha ha ha”. I plan to use my work colleague as a scape goat to try this out.

5. What everybody there is thinking, so that I will know, a full one day in advance, what the rest of the country will be thinking.

See you from Kolkata.

15 responses to “Coal Cutter, Ouaste Ben Gall – The prelude”

jillumadrasi

August 21, 2007

he, he, he

amee tomake ballo bhasi…

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Soundar

August 22, 2007

Ah! The home of Sashti Bhrata-he was like a meteor with his first book ‘My God died young’ and flamed out shortly after.

But what a writer! He would be out of print I expect (he wrote in the early seventies).

If you get this book in any of the famed pavement stalls on College (?) street, it would be worthwhile.

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Rajendran

August 22, 2007

my two penny tip – avoid being an anti-socialist and/or a philistine; be prepared to see the charge of the red brigade otherwise; Walk into any random hair cutting saloon to get the latest political moves of Eva Morales, Hugo Chavez and the likes. if possible, have lemon tea(lebu cha) in some road-side tea stall;

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Bikerdude

August 22, 2007

What no macherjhol and bangolly sweats? Eweslass pipples.

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rambodoc

August 22, 2007

Ashok,
What ya! Give me a call will ya?
Would like to do dinner with you if you don’t have someone tempting ensconced in your hotel room!
🙂
You can mail me or call me.

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Priya

August 22, 2007

good good. also please to visit our erstwhile captain’s fab resto ‘Sauravs’ (one @Park Lane, opp to the Music World).. it was almost gr8, save the fact that we had to wear night vision goggles to see where the food was exactly..

and hey, did you pack your oxygen cylinder and mask? you only get CO2 there.. mixed with most flavors of tobacco smoke.. 🙂 and dont forget to send some roshagulla to our blogs!

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Priya

August 22, 2007

just curious.. you oor suththing like this, veetle no mindings? or can we hear the better half go ‘yen purushan oorukku poitaar’ like Janakaraj 😉

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Ramsu

August 22, 2007

See if you can catch a movie at Nandan. If not anything else, for the sheer pleasure of sinking into plush, multiplex-standard seats for Kamadhenu Theatre prices.

Join a protest rally – there’s usually one going on. The slogan shouting there has a strange sort of rhythm: the leader shouts out something the size of War and Peace, and the others behind him respond in monosyllables. The theme is usually “Break the black hands of the Capitalists” or something on those lines.

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krishashok

August 22, 2007

Jillumadrasi,
Ayyo. romba sy is coming.

Soundar,
Thanks. Let me see if can squeeze in a visit to college street tomorrow

Rajendran,
Will do. The lebu chai bit. As I am trying to grow my hair, I might stay away from saloons, but I heard quite a bit of “the impending american downfall” in my office cafetaria. Bongs will always be Bongs.

Priya,
That was exactly my plan, but my colleague turned it down for the reason that 1) masala dosa might not be available there. 2) We were dreadfully hungry after circumambulating the victoria memorial.
As for veettu matters, so far my trips have been about a day or max 2, so no complaints so far 🙂

Ramsu,
Love the way you capture the poingancy of these so very Indian things..much like the way you capture movie stills in your excellent blog.

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mosilager

August 22, 2007

wait, do you plan to bring down the communist government of west bengal by insulting the comrades on the web? GoI should ban wordpress.

I’ve never been to anywhere in east india, would like to visit some time.

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Marc

August 23, 2007

I think that by point number 5 you are referring to the recent article in newspapers that Bengal’s vote power is disproportionate. Or something like that.

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krishashok

August 23, 2007

Msrc,
No. Bongo intelligentsia used to believe that “what bengal thinks today, india will think tomorrow”. Im referring to that 🙂

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Marc

August 24, 2007

Ah I see.

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James

November 27, 2007

Krish : Sasthi Brata books bought in the last century available, should you wish to borrow or steal 🙂

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