Thursday, 20 September 2012

Indian Independence - The Indian wife

The Indian wife today in metros have evolved. But this is the story of the Indian wife we all know and have heard of. When she was young, in perfect shape and sought after, men would go any length to win her. Night outs, fasts, miles of walks, police custody, anything! Hook or crook, they wanted her. A simile to our freedom struggle, indeed. And then one fine day the girl's parents approved the marriage. Britishers made India independent. And then the honey moon started. We framed the most idealistic constitution. We sang duets of India's glory. And then we started losing interest in spending time for/with her and spent more time on personal interests. We didn't care to see she was getting distorted while we were still using her for personal pleasure. And now 67 years after marriage, all we have is a old haggard, senile India, the wise kith and kin have left her for greener pastures across the globe and now she is almost dying. But the vulturous pliticians as sucking upto her last drop of blood. Ironically, she will be dead soon, disappear into thin air and then we will miss and repent those finest moments with her. Wake up India. The last chance you have. Save your woman! Save the beautiful dame! Save your freedom.

Monday, 19 March 2012

XS real or XS Reel???!?!?

My sister was one of the many who invested in XS Real's La Celeste property. But she was the smarter one. She paid just the booking amount. And then she sensed that there are other better things to invest in and backed out. She had paid a booking amount of 5.2 L. XS returned 5L after a long follow up. When we asked for the remaining 20k they said its been paid to the government towards service tax. I appreciated their promptness. We said we need that back too, and they said we have to file and get a refund from government. We found it fair enough, and asked them for the receipt so that we could initiate the process. Neither the receipt has come to us, nor have they given the money. Despite the fact that they are multi-crore company, it is highly insensitive of them to make customers through this pain. XS Real is excess reel.