With due respects and love to BusyBee, Mr Behram Contractor, the man who wrote the "Round and About" column in Afternoon Despatch & Courier.
And, for a Wednesday, a few stray thoughts and a few general observations and a few points of view(all my own work):
Like India becomes the 4th country to have a date with the Red Planet. It is also the first and the only country to get into the Mars' Orbit in the very first attempt and this definitely deserves appreciation for the men at ISRO.
Like Hollywood should learn to make movies using reasonable budgets. I mean, if India can organize a space program to Mars in 85 crores, why would Hollywood spend more than that just to make a 1 hr 25 min movie?
Like talking about movies, booty seems to be the only part of the body and the soul of lyrics in today's songs. After one thought there would be no more "Too"s, one now has to face a barrage of songs ranging from "Shake your bootiya" to "Shake that Booty".
Like if you thought that was enough, be warned, the world is not yet read to spare your ears. Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea have come up with an exclusive action packed song called . well you guessed it . "Booty where they do every other conceivable thing you can do with it other than what God meant it to do.
Like there are, however, respites to your ear in the form of Bang Bang. The songs in this movie feature possibly the best dancing pair in contemporary Bollywood, are quite like-able, some are very hummable and no where as gross as "Booty". or as loud as its title "Bang Bang".
Like talking about the movie title, the rhythm of Bang Bang's title track bears a subtle resemblance to MJ's "Wannna be starting something". It should be by design as this song is supposed to be a tribute to the pop star Michael Jackson.
Like talking about Michael Jackson, he is probably the only guy who looked Godly even when he held his hand on the crotch and swayed to the beats. If at all anything, the world just wanted to ape one of this many signature steps of Michael Jackson, which in my humble opinion is still better than singing aloud songs like "shake that booty".
Like Politicians seem to want to have more fun and action like a reality TV show when it comes to elections. So, politicians in Maharashtra have decided to up their ante and fight amongst their own allies than fight the parties contesting against them.
Like even now it is not clear which party in Maharashtra is contesting against whom as every party is busy holding closed door meetings. Strangely, "Number of seats contested" is becoming far more important than "Number of seats won" - which even a kid who can't tie shoe laces will tell you is a wrong way to fight elections.
Like there are speculations that all the 4 major parties may even go on their own with the prospect of BJP even forming an post-poll alliance with NCP. If this happens, will the Tiger roar back in anger? .
Like talking about the Tiger, it's unfortunate what happened in the zoo and that the boy ignored all warnings given by the guards and that help could not be organized when he fell in front of the Tiger. May be, the zoo officials were confused whom to save because the Nation only screams "Save the Tiger".
Like it is heartening to know India also plays games and sports other than cricket and are currently competing in the Asian Games at Inchoen, South Korea. Currently, India is at 15th position in the league table with 12 medals and China leading the table with 106 medals.
Like Chinese names, however short they may be, can be tricky and one DD news anchor lost her job for addressing the Chinese President Xi Jinping as "11 Jinping". It is possible that she thought "11 Jinping" is where Xi came from similar to "10 Janpat" from where the Congress President comes from.
Like Congress gave us the most taciturn PM ever in our country's history who sounded silent even when he actually spoke(this am guessing he spoke since his lips were moving), despite all the technological advances in the field of Acoustics. The present PM on the contrary has the knack of converting every opportunity he gets to speak to be an occasion to remember.
Like today when the PM spoke at the inauguration of Food Park, his speech was once again inspirational not because of the rhetorics, but the many practical ideas he shared, like in most of his speeches. For eg. how about just 5% of natural juice(from the fruits produced by our farmers) being added to beverages and aerated waters, which in turn will ensure that farmers don't have to waste their yield and get their fruits sold immediately.
And this final point of view,
That for the first time PM Narendra Modi wil be stepping out of Gujarat during Navratri for his US visit, but he will maintain his fast. As they say, "Duty First".
