Email forward

Got this email forward today. Funny and tragic, if it becomes true.

New Exam pattern in India (Revised) 1. General students - Answer ALL questions. 2. General Students ( girls) - any three out of ten. (33% of total) 3. OBC - WRITE ANY one question. 4. SC - ONLY READ questions. 5. ST - THANKS FOR COMING.. AND. 6. Gujjars/Jats/ Shiv Sainiks - THANKS FOR ALLOWING OTHERS TO ATTEND THE EXAMINATION .. !! CHEERS TO RESERVATION. .....

Quick reading

Yesterday I was delighted to come across a slim book (after reading fat books over the years, I have become partial to slim books), Twitterature, at the Strand Book Stall. It is the World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter. They are retold by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin. I was surprised to know that both of them are just 19 years old. When did they got the time to read the world's greatest books. Anyway, it make for some wonderful and delighted reading. Here is a sample of two chapters of Great Expectations by Dickens (twitterature version):

I have to sit in the crazy woman's house. She lives in the basement sits in the same clothes. Her fiance really dodged a bullet there.

Her granddaughter Estella is pretty hot. She's is ten. I'm ten, too. All she does is make fun of me. Maybe it's my name.

Quite funny.

Bade Dil Waala

Dr. Mukesh Hariawala, who has performed Bypass Surgery on R.D. Burman, has this to say about great RD:

Sharique: Tell us about the humble episode following surgery on Indian music maestro R D Burman? Did it have any impact on you?

Dr Hariawala: Following Bypass Surgery at the Princess Grace Hospital , “Panchamda” as R D Burman is affectionately called invited me over for dinner and gifted a box of his personal collection of music CDs, which was a new technology in the early 1990s . I returned it embarrassingly confessing that I only owned a Cassette player.

Next day, he redelivered the same box of CDs to me accompanied with a new CD player. This gesture has had a significant impact on my fundamental belief in “Generosity“ and what it means to have a "Large Heart for Others" in this material world.

Read full text of the interview of Dr. Dr. Mukesh Hariawala.

Panchamda you were indeed Bade Dil Waala.