Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Karan Arjun
The maintenance folks of my apartment complex are doing some roof repairs and they’ve been hammering and drilling over my head all day. All this has resulted in putting a very bad roof-related song in my head — chhat par soya thha behnoyi, main tane samajh ke so gayi from Karan Arjun (1995) picturized on Mamta Kulkarni pretending to seduce Amrish Puri, no less. Oh, the sheer joy. By the way, if you have a better roof song to suggest, please do so and I will be eternally grateful. So thanks to how my twisted mind works ..
.. I found myself discussing the Mahabharata with a friend. Don’t look so shocked. I, like every other kid, read a healthy dose of Amar Chitra Katha comics while growing up, so I can sound like I know what I’m talking about, even when I don’t.
So I got thinking about Karna and what a tragic and fascinating story his life was. One of the last few good men. He was a good son, a loyal friend, a righteous man and a skilled warrior. In fact, he is said to be a better archer than Arjuna, but Arjuna refused to compete and find out. Karna’s unknown parentage was used against him. It was beneath Arjuna to fight someone whose lineage and kshatriya antecedents were not known, you see. Total crapola, I tell ya. And thus, Karna never got the respect and glory he truly deserved. A terrible victim of circumstances.
The story of his birth is rather interesting too — Karna was the son of Kunti from Surya, the Sun God. Kunti, while still a young girl, served and cared for Rishi Durvasa with great devotion while he was visiting their kingdom. Pleased with her dedication he taught her a special mantra. If she thought of a God while chanting the mantra, that God would appear before her and she would bear a son with him. The son would have the God-like qualities of the God in question. Immaculate conception, of course, so don’t get any ideas.
But Kunti had her doubts. She thought Rishi Durvasa pulled a fast one on her and the mantra was fake. Plus she was hajjaar curious, so she thought she’d test it out. So she looked out her window, thought of Surya and chanted the magic mantra. Ta-da! The Sun God appeared and .. long story short, Karna was born. Major problemo! Kunti was unmarried, so the fear of social stigma made her go bye-bye baby. Karna was put in a basket and floated off into the Ganga river. Now you know how all those Hindi-film babies end up in baskets in rivers all over. Kunti’s idea. Karna was found by a charioteer Adhiratha and grew up as his son although it’s a miracle he didn’t grow up to be a basket case. Anyhoo, many years later, Kunti married Pandu and re-used the mantra successfully to give birth to more sons — the Pandavas.
Q: So, now that you know the background, what would you call the story of Karna’s birth?
A: A beta-test! (Beta = Hindi for Son)
Yes, you have been taken for a ride (in a chariot, no less). The whole mythology lecture was just a setup for a bad PJ. That concludes our usual quota of mindless nonsense. I shall make myself scarce now. Jaati hoon main ..
Hilarious to the core. especially the Kunti window romance part. So Pandavas are official 1.0 release. :)
>>Anyhoo, many years later, Kunti married Pandu
Kaun!! apna hawaldar Pandu!!!:).
It definitely might have made Pandu have pent-up gussa onthe whole Kunti-Surya love story thingy. No wonder, the pandus in India behave like they have eons of kunnas and let it out on the bechara public.
See its all Kunti’s fault.:)
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 3:36 PM
Deriving inspiration from Mrs. Megha Vyas, here’s my contribution to the PJ silo that is this blog.
Q: What two things did Kunti get when she chanted the “magic mantra†(collective rolling of eyes) and thought of Surya ?
Ans: A santaan and a sun-tan! ( santaan - Hindi for Son)
And lastly, may I say – and this is in no way a judgment of how you spend your time or a probe into your life – Jaldi Hai Kya? :P
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 4:02 PM
comment not related, but have to comment, will comment. your story reminded me of vikram-betal (or vetal), where betal will say “rajan, safar ko chota karne ke liye main tujhe ek kahani sunata hoon”, then tell a long story, ask a question, to which ofcourse, vikram will’ve to answer “otherwise tera sar phat-ke tukde-tukde ho jayega”, and then the nasty betal will flee “Wah rajan, ek baar phir tune apni budhimat-ta sabit kar di, par rajan tune apna moun tod diya. main toh chala..mwhahahaha”. your narration style, was, umm..similar (not to say that you are nasty)
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 4:16 PM
total tp :p
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 4:24 PM
That is one of the funniest thing I have read in a while. Hilarious!
Ever thought about doing some stand up comedy like Russell Peters? He pulls similar desi jokes and after reading your blog, I think even you can make it! :)
JD
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 4:27 PM
[gvenum] I loved the Pandu angle although I am guessing Kunti will not appreciate it :) And next time I see an angry constable at a Mumbai crossroad, I shall think of his Kunti-like wife sitting at home muttering magic mantras while looking at the sun! :)
[Devdutt] Brilliant! Mostest excellent! Maybe it is the sun-tan that makes up the natural kavach that Karna always wore? Hmmm..
And why Mr Vyas’s wife? Why can’t I be his daughter? Has a nice daughter doing a modern interpretation of papa’s famous literary work feel to it even.
I expected a jaldi se jaa .. response to the jaati hoon main. You were much nicer :)
[ag] If roof repair can be related to the Mahabharata, pretty much anything can be related to anything, so comment fearlessly! I am most flattered to be Betal although I picture myself to be a slightly younger and more feminine version of him. And I will hopefully not have to sit on top of Arun Govil’s shoulders while I cackle gleefully. Most disturbing thought that is. The Arun Govil part, not the gleeful part, I mean. But otherwise, thank you :)
[Chugs] That was the idea! :)
[JD] Thank you! Glad to know it made you laugh :) And nah, never considered being a comic, but it’s very flattering of you to think so! Thanks much for that! :) How did the Blogger meet go, by the way?
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 4:58 PM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 4:59 PM
[aNTi] Was that an ahhh of divine enlightenment or an ahhh of frustratedly pulling out your hair? :)
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 5:03 PM
Beta testing indeed :p ROTFL!
Now you know how all those Hindi-film babies end up in baskets in rivers all over.
Did u know Mani Ratnam did an interpretation of the same subject as your latest PJ inspiration - Dalapathi (which was dubbed in Hindi too), with Rajinikanth playing Surya (i.e. Karna)…
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 5:04 PM
[aNTi] :) I haven’t seen Dalapathi except for a few scenes, so I didn’t know this. I heard it had traces of The Godfather in it as well?
Shyam Benegal’s Hindi movie Kalyug was also a modern interpretation of the Mahabharata, with Shashi Kapoor playing the role of Karna. I watched this movie as a kid so I don’t remember too vividly, but the final scene where Shashi Kapoor gets killed - he gets a flat tire and is changing the wheel, and they run him over - a reference to Karna being killed while pulling his chariot wheel out of the mud.
I am full of random trivia today, it seems :)
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 5:23 PM
(gvenum to anti)
aah Dalapathi…The only difference is that the modern Karna(Rajni) is a big name where as the modern Arjun (Arvind Swami) is such a shame. Finally the Karna character is getting his dues.:) . Do you know, If my sources are right, that A.Swami once claimed that he is a better actor than AB. Frankly he is….look at his “dissapearing” act:). So real.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 5:38 PM
@ Megha: Traces of the Godfather? Hmm… I don’t know.. Even the fact that its an interpretation of Karna’s life was news to me till sometime ago, but then I am stupid and the Mahabharatha is not one of my strong points when it comes to trivia. I can barely remember names :D
@ gvenum: LOL.. that was a good one. But I also heard that he (A. Swamy) only did movies only when he could take some time off from his business…
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 5:47 PM
[gvenum, anti]
Another good reinterpretation was done by Chandraprakash Dwivedi in his serial “Mrityunjay”. Dunno whether anyone has seen it, but that was one awesomely stylized piece of desi mythological drama.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 5:56 PM
[aNTi] In that case your guess is as good as mine! Some day i’ll see the movie and let you know :)
[Devdutt] That comment was not for me? *sniffle* I haven’t seen Mrityunjay, so I have no clue. This is the same Chandraprakash Dwivedi of Chanakya and later Pinjar fame right?
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 6:04 PM
Affirmative…the very same. The narration is from Karn’s POV. Also his trademark bland stylization is in stark contrast to the ostentatiousness (I looked that up and yes it’s a word) of Ravi Chopra’s visualization of Mahabharat.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 6:54 PM
I remember listening to a song ‘On the roof, in the rain’. I can’t remember the pple who starred in it. Does anybody know ?
While it didn’t rained this year when winter became spring, I figured it would still qualify as a roof song!
Another rain song is Anu Malik’s Rain is falling, Chama cham cham.. hehe..
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 8:25 PM
Hmm.. Rain song.. Kajol and Akshay Kumar sashaying to “Dekho Zara Dekhi Barsaat” (forget the movie, seems to be the same one with another song “I am 16, going on 17″, featuring Kajol and Saif)….
Loved that one…
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 9:28 PM
The song that comes to my mind Sarkaye lo khatiya(Govinda, Karishma K), is that a roof song ? I know not.
New PJ again :) If only Kunti had a penchant for PJ’s like you do and if she could understand a lil bit of english..just a lil bit, she wouldn’t have peformed the “Beta-Test”. why ?
What would happen if u play around with sun god ?
If you are a lady you will be blessed with a son :p.
If you are already a son(a male i.e) ..you get none. Sun god is not gay so he’s gonna run. I know, cracking jokes about sun-god is no fun..so I’ll stop the pun….umm..I’m done.
Don’t kill me if u are sick of the pj’s…what else can u comment on a post which itself is a PJ. You know, we have all the mahabharata episodes recorded at home…I used to watch them during hols sometimes and I almost knew all the dialogues(not quite :p). There was once a Mahabharata quiz at my school..lol..no prize for guessing who won :) and my Mahabharat knowledge is limited to watever was shown on tv !
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 11:14 PM
[Devdutt] Ah okie. Wasn’t the TV series directed by B R Chopra though? I am sure beta Ravi Chopra assisted, but just confirming that it was daddy Chopra at the helm.
[Anonymous] Ah yes! How could I forget! Thank you! Now I shall sing this one instead :)
Chori chori chhora chhori chhat pe milenge
To khelenge prem game
Chhod ke saari baatein bas
Romance rahega main
On the roof, in the rain ..
As you can see, major poetic lyrics and all :) But cheese and corn notwithstanding, it is not a hopelessly bad song. Picturized on Lara Dutta and Vivek Oberoi from a movie called Masti.
Anu Malik singing rain songs .. *shudder* Please tell me the music video of this doesn’t have him starring in it? Please pretty please?
[aNTi] I believe this one’s from Yeh Dllagi, the remake of the English movie Sabrina, starring Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart and later remade with Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford, as well.
It had the superhit jab bhi koi ladki dekhoon mera dil deewana bole, ole oleas well as the then-considered-quite-hot honton pe bas tera naam hai number. At least I think it is the same movie :)
[pingoo] I have no idea either, but I guess the khatiya could be on the roof, so it is a possibility :) So educate me - why wouldn’t she have performed the beta-test?
Thank god you’re done
‘Cos this was surely not fun!
And hey, give me thoda credit na. My entire blog was not a pun. It was a mythology lesson, an education .. although admittedly in my own style. But still that is a lot more noble than just a PJ :) And congratulations on the prize! I hope you have it proudly displayed next to your video collection of the TV show :)
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 11:51 PM
I thought she asked for a roof song guys, not rain song. Looks like people are having a hangover from previous saree-clad lady casts of Yash chopra movie post..oh yeah I remember now..its a Picture post:), now like to see a rain song. I kind of have a feeling where this is heading.
Anyway the closest roof song I got to is Mithun da’s Movie “Dalal”
guTur guTur … are chaDh gayaa uupar re … aTariyaa pe loTan kabuutar re!! …Incidentally this is also a kabutar song, incase some one wants to make it one.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 11:58 PM
Thanks for the complete lyrics of the song - on the roof, in the rain.
I gave a wrong Anu Malik number. The actual song is ‘Dekho Baarish Ho Rahi Hai. It is raining, It is raining. It is raiiiining’
http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Twenty_Worst_Hindi_Songs-23312-1.html
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 12:10 AM
Found another roof song.. “Chath par kala kavva baitha” I forget the movie name again!!
Back to work!
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 12:17 AM
[Tagad_Tale] Ah, so that was you! Happy to have helped. This Anu Malik song is one that I have heard of before, but never actually heard. But I shall look for the song and listen to it and change all that. And is the second song the title number from the film Jhoot Bole Kauwa Kaate?
You have helped me get chhat par soya thha behnoyi out of my head, so thank you! :)
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 12:40 AM
[gvenum] It is true that I was looking for roof songs, but I didn’t complain too much about the rain songs since they helped to get Mamta Kulkarni out of my system. Trust me, it is not fun being inside my head :|
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 12:50 AM
Wow, now we allow anonymous comments too?
Saves a lot of pain for stalkers liek me!
Anuja
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 2:13 AM
YAAAAAAAGH. Am beating myself over the head for having fallen for the ‘lecture-leading-to-PJ’ gag…oldest trick in the book.
Lecture was pretty good tho’ - I like your style of sankshipt-fying the whole Kunti-Karna-Arjun saga; you cud actually get away with the doing-modern-interpretation-of-Poopie’s-work stunt!
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 2:15 AM
ROTFL!!! As I was reading this, I was thinkin’ where this story is leading to….. and…. thr it is.. Megha, the PJ-queen… :))
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 4:36 AM
You’ve hit upon the latest buzz word-albeit a bit differently-in bollywood today. Any aspiring actress or actor, when asked abt the casting couch says, Karna padta hai bhai! Karna padta hai!
That apart, this song would always have a very special place in the cinegoer’s heart for it saw the most hilarious expressions on the face of Mogambo who seemed to be having intermittent orgasms coz a rat had been left in his pyjamas and kept tickling him. His delight after having discovered that he was indeed the coveted ‘Ranaji’ being alluded to coyly by Mamta was def the most memorable moment of an even more memorable movie.
And dunno if it’s better roof song but this one from King Uncle(?):
Chhat ke upar, do kabootar, neeche main aur tu…
tutar tutar tu..
‘Tutar tutar tu’ is def one of the more alliteratively profound expressions having found life on the Indian movie screen, challenged only by Gutar Gutar…i think.
More posts on such songs please:)
Or was the post on Karna?
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 7:16 AM
[Anuja] Yes, anonymous commenting has been enabled for some time now. Stalkers or not, we treat all our readers equally, you see.
[Taz Snow] Ah, so glad the trick worked! Now that people expect me to pull a fast one on them, I have to try doubly hard to mask it :) Honestly, the ‘modern-interpretation-of-pop’s-literary-work‘ was more of an afterthought. It wasn’t written with that intention. Kinda like drawing the picture first and then placing the dots at appropriate points so it looks like i connected the dots :) Nice to see you drop by! Do visit again! :)
[Prasad] *sigh* Nobody gives any bhaav for the education aspect of this post. Six paragraphs I wrote! And all they see is the PJ at the bottom of it! Tchah! :) Glad it made you laugh though :)
[oxy_moron] I had fleeting memories of the scene on the screen for this song. I had Mamta Kulkarni, Amrish Puri, some thumaks, some mataks and the rest was just a blur. And now you went and changed all that. Memorable indeed. Now it’ll take ten years of therapy to forget it! And chhat ke upar, do kabootar, neeche main aur tu shall be looked for and listened. Reliable sources tell me that it is from a movie called Dil Hi To Hai, with Jackie Shroff in a double-role no less. The kabutars along with him are Shilpa Shirodkar and Divya Bharati.
Thank you for dropping in! :)
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 11:59 AM
Moral of the story: It takes a long while to realize that the beta version is always better than the live version
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 1:40 PM
“So educate me - why wouldn’t she have performed the beta-test? “
*Sigh* Well, If Kunti knew that pun, there was no need for her to perfom a beta-test cuz its obvious that a son will be born ! got that ?? now..now dont ask intelligentsia kochens like
“Even Durvasa told her that and she knew it too but she still performed the test, so what if she knew the pun ?”
just like I am not going to ask a kochen like
Kunti wanted to hide this kiddo cuz she was not married..but..but her parents didn’t watch her while her tummy was bulging ?? Was it a 9 month regular vanilla type baby or 9 minute “instant mix baby” ? :).
Ok peepz, this is the author’s inimitable style of parting knowledge and educating readers with
some punny stuff peppered around :). Don’t see the pun in the end…try to get some gyan from the parable. Now Happy ya ?
Yes, the prize would have been displayed if it was not a hindi book !! I dunno in what mind was he thinking that I am going to read a hindi book ..hmm anyways.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 1:57 PM
Something I came up on the dinner table, and couldn’t resist sharing =
Q. What would you call Einstein if he was gay?
A. Homo-geneous (genius)
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 2:25 PM
[Karan after a long while] Is this the same as the doodler-Karan? Or is commenter-Karan different? :)
Totally agree with your moral of story :) Another completely random and pointless observation - Isn’t it interesting how people today rarely name their kids Yudhistir, Bheem or Arjun (arguably the more famous of the Pandavas) but you find Nakuls, Sahadevs and Karans more easily? :) Hmm..
[pingoo] Argh! Sorry that I even asked! :) By the way, from what I understand this wasn’t your regular 9-month baby, vanilla or chocolate-chip I am not too sure about, need to check. This was more of the blinding-flash-of-divine-light, background-music-of-violins and ta-da! - baby has arrived type of kid. So that should explain why there was no trouble with the parents.
And yes, very happy. Thank you for the vote of support :)
[Vardan] Ah that was awesome! Genius! :) See, now you should write six paragraphs of pointless bakwaas and turn the dinner-table-inspiration into a blog post, like I do ;)
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 2:36 PM
Well.. A Karan is a Karan even if he is just a doodler-Karan or a commenter-Karan.
Karan is a common name, there is one on the doodle and one talking some crap right here.
And then, there are a couple beside me in the voter’s list and in the wanted list.
Anyhow.. why is one not named Suyodhan ? (Was tempted to say anyhoo.. but I heard what happened to the other guy who tried something similar)
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 3:07 PM
[Karan after a long while] They use the ek roop kai naam phrase when referring to God, but in the case of the Karans of the world, it is quite the opposite, it seems — kai roop ek naam. Then again, that is probably true of any name starting with a K so I shouldn’t be specific, I guess?
And the chap who last said anyhoo — How is he doing anyway? He seems to have vanished without a trace. The question that is waiting to be asked however — Where is Karan after a short while?
To the rest of the readers : This is supposed to be a random comment. Don’t try to make too much sense out of it. I don’t understand it much, myself.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 3:23 PM
No sowwie and all :). chocolate chip ? :d…I like the background music part :p…must have been Ravel’s Bolero ;-).
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 3:33 PM
[pingoo] Ah Bolero! That will be awesome! But experience with Hindi films suggests that one hundred eighty-seven violins will be playing simultaneously in the background, a style perfected by apna Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 3:45 PM
Good Dose of history and Pun-o-logy!!! ;)
My contribution to your Chhath songs ( probably a more innocent one than “gutar gutar ” and “sarkaylo” )
[a side note here to Pingoo today ... abbaaa tune aaaj sach much apna "SAR KHAYLO" ;) ]
So the song:
ichak dana bichak dana dane upar dana ichakdana
chhatke upar ladki nache ladka hai diwana ichakdana
And your post made me wonder why Kunti had to use the mantra to have kids after shaadi. First I thought maybe to get strong and good sons (no offense to Pandu miya). Then I googled a bit and refreshed my rusty memory, that Pandu was cursed by the dying sage Kindama when the sage and his wife were busy coochi cooing in the guise of deers and Pandu shot ‘em during one of his hunting expeditions. So the sage cursed him that he would die if he ever touched a woman in that way… So that’s why Kunti needed that boon!!!!
Aahhh that was my LOOOOOOONG contribution to your post :) Sorry I got a bit carried away :{}
excusez moi!!!
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 6:25 PM
Ouch I did not mean for that side note to glare out like that in red .. must be one of Megha’s blogsite tricks …
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 6:36 PM
Wow… interesting write up !
Well designed blog that i have come across….have fun..
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 7:26 PM
Hmmm.. how could I forget Yeh Dillagi! Shows that I am getting older (* sheds a few tears at the passing of time)
And Hoton Pe Bas Tera Naam Hai had Kumar Sanu in full flow (P.S. I HATE HIM!)
And Saif in Jab Bi Koi Ladki.. ROTFL
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 @ 11:02 PM
Maighaawd ! I don’t hv anything left to say. Tis all one bigtime MJ…MegghaJoke :))
Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 12:49 AM
funny to say the least!! loved it sooo much!! :)
sorry for intruding ur place though…
Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 1:14 AM
aaah rather late on chhat song brigade, but i shall contribute one. one of my flavorites!
dil dhoondta hai fir wahi fursat ke raat din
baithe rahe tasavoor ye jaana kiye hue
dil dhoondta hai fir wahi fursat ke raat din
jaadon ki narm dhoop aur aangan mein let kar
jaadon ki narm dhoop aur aangan mein let kar
aankhon pe khinch kar tere aanchal ke saaye ko
aundhe pade rahe kabhi karvat liye hue
dil dhoondta hai fir wahi fursat ke raat din
ya garmiyon ki raat jo purvaiyaan chale
ya garmiyon ki raat jo purvaiyaan chale
thandi safed chaadaro pe jaage der tak
taaron ko dekhte rahen chhat par padhe hue
dil dhoondta hai fir wahi fursat ke raat din
barfili sardiyon mein kisi bhi pahad par
barfili sardiyon mein kisi bhi pahad par
vadi mein goonjti hui khamoshiyaan sune
aankhon mein bheege bheege se lamhe liye hue
dil dhoondta hai fir wahi fursat ke raat din
dil dhoondta hai fir wahi fursat ke raat din
baithe rahe tasavoor ye jaana kiye hue
dil dhoondta hai fir wahi fursat ke raat din
Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 3:36 AM
tht serious but awesome comment, back to random stuff
talking abt Arjun:
tune mera dhanush to diya, teen rupye ka nuksaan kar diya. main nahi karta natak vatak.
Draupadi tere akele ki nahi hai. Hum sab shareholder hain.
Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 5:06 AM
If Kunti ma had so much guts to use the power to just test it…why wuldnt she do regression testing!!!!..by that all those guys ,kunti puttars , wuld have come earlier and saved my karn from such life long humiliation!
Thalapathi was dubbed in to ‘Dalpathi’, though Rajini hailing from Maharashtra’s Gaekwad clan, he is so much a tamilian now that it was quite funny to see him talk in Hindi :)…….
Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 9:14 AM
[Vandana] :d. How be you ?
[Megha] Ravel’s Bolero was mentioned cuz
< -start trivia->
In the movie called Ten Bo Derek yearns to make love while Ravel’s Bolero is playing
< -end trivia->
but..but..Kunti being a desi !! our very own Laxmikant-“Pyar”elal’s one hundred and eighty-seven violins will be suitable for the “Pyar” making scenes, Oh and the scenes being - 2 sunflowers (or may be banthi chaamanti?, na sun-flower is apt for sun-god.) touching or rather hitting each other such that the petals fall off !! or may be a bee zzzzzing into a sunflower *sigh*, next scene has to be the sunrise, violins stop, suprabhatam start and hence scene ova.
Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 1:43 PM
Is everyone able to see this blog today? I can post a comment to it, but I cannot see the post page itself. And I’ve had complaints from people that they cannot load the blog at all - it takes them to the Blogger login page instead. Just wondering how many folks are having this problem.
[Vandana] Ahh, thank you for bringing this R-rated blog back to PG-13 :) Yes, Pandu was cursed to die if he ever touched a woman. In fact that is how he eventually died. Kunti was away in the jungle on a field trip, Madri and Pandu got a little carried away, and poof, he was dead. Poor chap. (I am tempted to say that ‘Hey, at least he died happy!’ but I think I’ll be lynched ;) ) What I don’t understand though, is the sage that cursed him — why were he and his wife coochie-cooing in the guise of deers? There must be some funda, but it sure as heck beats me!
Thank for you posting Part Two of the saga of Kunti and adding to the information value of this otherwise inane post :) And yes, it is one of my bloggy tricks that turned your font red. Apologies for that! Any text enclosed within [ ] is turned red, to highlight my commenters’ names :)
[Krish] Thank you! Do visit again! :)
[aNTi] Yay, we have another member of the I hate KS brigade! You know, I have rarely met a person who actually likes/loves the guy’s voice and/or persona. Yet he was immensely successful, largely thanks to the Nadeem-Shravan push he got early in his career.
[Suhail] Thank you thank you! Always happy to provide some cheap laughs! And your puns never cease eh? :)
[Abhay] Thank you! Glad you liked it so much! And intrude? Not at all! On the contrary it is most awesome to have readers like you drop by and comment. The audience only encourages inanities like this, you see! ;) Hope to see you around more often :)
[Mustang] Ahh, thank you for bringing some respectability to my otherwise-heading-to-doom post :) And WHAT a song! One of my absolute favorite combinations too — Bhupinder singing Gulzar’s lyrics! The imagery that these words evoke .. *sigh*
And thank you for returning to the nonsense, as well :)
[Anonymous] I think it was Kunti’s curiosity more than guts though. She didn’t really expect a kid to get created, else she wouldn’t have tried the mantra in the first place, am guessing? And yes, Rajini’s Hindi accent is always entertaining :)
[pingoo] Oho! I did not know this Ten funda. All I know about this movie is Bo Derek running on the beach :) And sunflowers coyly touching would be most apt, for sure :) Although if it is banti-chamanti, then the Chiru song from Abhilasha has to be playing in the background instead of the one-eighty-seven violins. I like the suprabhatam funda too. Reminds me of many a late-80s/early-90s Telugu movie :)
Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 3:23 PM
muwahaha…and i was reminded of that 5 page real time newsgrp discussion i had received smtime back where it started off with a simple question like where is “some city” and it had evolved into a full fledged discussion of indian history, aryans et al..
Friday, April 22, 2005 @ 3:44 AM
Bit late to join the discussion, but I’ll make my point anyway - I think Karna and Duryodhana are the best example of true friendship in literature. Look at it - one man who, while deeply flawed, overcomes class divisions to treat a charioteer’s son as his equal - and another who chooses to fight his brothers rather than to betray the man who stood by him.
Friday, April 22, 2005 @ 3:56 AM
son-ta singh: punta singh..punta singh, I hv a v.v. pun_da_mental 51st qweschan.
Punta singh,
[son-ta singh] Aah! thankoo. Howd be you? What is yr kweschan, pliss ask.
son-ta singh :how do you protect yourself from lightning when walking on clouds.
Pun-ta singh,
[son-ta singh] Aah! thank u :) Simply take a daily doze of high-quality OHMegha.
(*son-ta singh obviously en*light*ened from that bolt of geniousisisism walks away a happy man*)
:))
Friday, April 22, 2005 @ 8:30 PM
twas a zimbly zuper post on karan…:) waiting for more such analysis on Mahabharat :)
and comments were also wonderful..i came to know of so many things :D
Friday, April 22, 2005 @ 11:01 PM
much too many comments!!! I feel so lost :(
I had to use ctrl-f to find my bearings :P - as for the post, I will not make an attempt at humour.. coz whenever I try that, I suck.
Saturday, April 23, 2005 @ 3:09 AM
[Suhail] Why you no blog no more :(, sunta and punta singh could’ve been on your blog.. convince him o’megha!
Saturday, April 23, 2005 @ 3:23 AM
Figured that I am the ‘doodler-Karan’! haina, haina, haina? :)
PS: mayb i shud have doodled this…coz that wat a doodler-karan does!
Saturday, April 23, 2005 @ 4:03 AM
This is crazy!! 55 comments and still going strong! And moreover every one is responding to everyone. (Many to many relationship? Grrr… bear with the RDBMS ghost that I have within me. :D)
Well well, I am humbled to see the brilliance of poster (well if comment maker can be commentor then post maker has to be poster eh? :p) and equal elegance of the ‘commentors’! I dare not pitch in. Any attempt to match the quality of pun is most certainly gonna meet a miserable fate. :D
No comments from me. :p
Saturday, April 23, 2005 @ 8:31 AM
[Megha] I kinda enjoy some of KS’s songs, but cant stomach the fact that he can win awards like “Voice of the Decade” or something like that. And he talks about how good he is.. Thats what pisses me off.
Something else that pissed me off is the fact that Udit Narayan and Sukhwinder Singh seem to screw up even their biggest hits when they sing on stage. Am not talking of off key voices, but missing cues which screws up everything! On the other hand, everytime I have heard Sonu Nigam, Hariharan and SPB on stage, they have come across sounding like you are hearing their tapes. And I don’t have to even say anything about the improvs from SPB and Hariharan, though some ppl say that Hariharan does more than a wee bit of grandstanding… Sorry for the off topic comment, but the angst just took off like the Brahmastra from Arjuna’s bow ;)
Saturday, April 23, 2005 @ 3:36 PM
[var-daan] I do blog more-more, but seriositly ishpeeking all this OH’Megha ishtuff won’t make sense there, will it? for yhour kind infourmation, I have tried a fiery take on how I got my SSN (sorry megha for some sameless self-promo-son here). Do drop by and burn your fingers in my conments section. Will be glad to roast you in my pyre ;)
(*with-a-straight-face: bouquets of aPhoologies if u take offense to my playing around with yr name. But given that u frequent this fools-joint often, I assume it’s wokay*)
Saturday, April 23, 2005 @ 7:23 PM
Hi Megha,
Da Guy says thanks.
He will repay you in a way you will like…whether you like it or not
:)
What is the Matrix?
Who is Neo?
Wanna have a discussion with Da Guy about Cascading Style Sheets and pointers in C or the advantages of Linux over Windows?
Ever heard of OS/2…Da Guy saw a certain guy who is a dictator in the real world crush it.
But he is a techie who knows the secret of success.
Marketing
He asks…do you know punjabi?
Maybe…you should learn? He does know Kannada and he is starting his plans for world domination from Bangalore.
Whats the trick to making everything free?
Saturday, April 23, 2005 @ 7:41 PM
Wowie..As long we are on the topic of chhatt songs..i remembered one…late,but well….i think it had akshay kumar in it and i dont remember the name of the fillum,
it went like
hum do premi chhatt ke uppar gali gali mein shor….arra ra ra aha ore…
weird how i remmeber that..
cheerio
pankaj
Sunday, April 24, 2005 @ 3:09 PM
ROTFLLLL…
Wonderful blog, wonderful post, wat next?
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 4:00 AM
Hey Megha,
Here again :)
Was reminded of the story of Moses when i read this. Moses was also floated out on the river by his poor mom!
wondering how come two mythologies which developed at totally different times have such a common (and important) thread..any theories? or are there more such linked mythologies?
cheers
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 8:55 AM
[shantanu] Isn’t it amazing that, after the gazillion tangents we seem to go on, that we still continue to make sense, at least for the most part? :) It makes me most happy!
[Gamesmaster G9] Yes, very true. One thing though — it is said that Duryodhana feared Arjuna more than any of the other Pandavas. When he discovered Karna’s archery skills and realized he was a match for Arjuna (or rather, better than him) he immediately saw the merit in befriending him. So while I agree that Duryodhana put aside class divisions to treat him as an equal (which was more than one could say about the Pandavas), he was driven, at least somewhat, by fairly selfish reasons, don’t you think?
[Suhail] Argh! If only I could zap you with a bolt of lightning or something! :) And promote all you want, yahaan par sab kuchh chalta hai :)
[RK] Thankoo thankoo! I shall try. All my Amar Chitra Katha reading has to come in handy some time, after all! :)
[Vardan] All you need to do is turn your dinner-table inspirations into stories. The humor will take care of itself :) And by the look of his latest post, Suhail has finally decided to shed his serious, thinking image on his blog, but I’ll try to convince him some more!
[doodler-Karan] Why not comment as well as doodle and in the process, juggle between your different avataars? :)
[Fun_Da_Mental] Don’t tell me you drew a little entity-relationship model in your head? ‘Cos your comment surely had me drawing one :) Considering the inanity that is this post, any brilliance you see in it definitely belongs to the commentors. And I am happy to be a poster. Thanks to you I am singing a new song — ye khabar chapwado akhbaar mein, poster lagwado bazaar mein .. Grrr! :)
[aNTi] I completely agree that he comes across as a pompous windbag. Another great example of someone who speaks louder than his art is Anu Malik! I haven’t heard KS, Udit Narayan, Sukhwinder Singh, Sonu Nigam, SPB or Hariharan live, so I’ll simply go with what you say. However your comment about ‘they come across sounding like you are hearing their tapes‘ got me thinking. I assume you mean that they sound perfect, like they would in their studio recordings? If that is indeed what you meant, would you want them to sound exactly like that? In a live show, wouldn’t some spontaneous improvisations add to the charm? Or maybe I misunderstood ..
[Guardian_Angel1] I shall pretend to have understood all that and nod solemnly!
[Requiem for a Dream] I’ve never heard this song before! Where is it from? Sounds most promising! :)
[KJ] Thank you! As for what next — hopefully more of the same :) Nice to see you drop by. Do visit again!
[Matter of Choice] Hmm, very interesting point. I am sure there are other parallels like this although none come to mind right now to cite as examples. Shall hunt around for them and perhaps write about them too. Makes for a nice topic for a blog post. Nice to see you here again :)
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 2:12 PM
*In the voice of Janice from F.R.I.E.N.D.S* - Oooooh, myyyyyy Goooooood!
Goodbye discussion boards, Hello Megha’s blog!
[Shantanu] Was the question “What/Where is Manasi”? I can’t remember the name of the place/person either! :)
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 5:12 PM
[Megha] I am not too knowledgable about music. However, I can pick up pitch imperfections and missed cues very easily, because on the whole, the flaws are increasingly apparent screwed. Which is what I meant by “hearing them on tape”, meaning that the imperfections, if at all, are not apparent to a lay listener like me.
I attribute the lack of such perceptible imperfections to practice. Also, I think this status quo arises mainly cos these days singers don’t get to sing the whole song at a single sitting. I think they sing one line / antra at a time and the MD does the rest. But if a particular song tops the charts, wouldn’t it be obvs that the singer (if he or she does stage shows) would be expected to sing them and hence would be expected to learn them by heart, incl. all the cues?
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 6:59 PM
By God ki kasam…my harddisk is abt to explode with so many MeghaBytes.
Meggha, I leave such nice puntastic description in ur com-bent section & after multiple F5s all I get is a “Argh”..that too only 2-line in yr reapLie! what this :(
[Rajaish, Shantanu]FYI, that 5-pg discu-son starts with, “where is Maithili”, and IIRC it ends in s/w engineers being monkeys ;). btw, Rajesh yr JALS rocks! I didn’t know it was you & just can’t imagine PreetiMehra is not for real. Come out with JALS-2 fast!
-suHail.
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 7:07 PM
After seeing so many comments, I simply had to comment; just to get my name in ;)
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 10:42 PM
What did one dissatisfied rotor tell another?
Let’s start a revolution!
A girl ate up her mother and father.What is she?
An orphan :P
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 10:46 PM
[Rajesh] Nice to see you join the revelry, although just a tad bit late :) By the way, I still have no clue what this question business that Shantanu, you and Suhail are talking about. Someone please enlighten me what this ‘5-page discussion’ business is?
[aNTi] Ah okie, gotcha! And yes, I completely agree. They ought to know their popular songs inside out, given that there’s a high likelihood that they will be expected to sing it at their live shows. The only live concert I’ve been to is of Asha Bhosle, and she, coming from the old school of song recording, was perfection personified. Even when improvising, she always landed back on the right note and exact beat! No missed cues, nothing. Such a sheer pleasure listening to her! Sadly, they don’t make them like that anymore!
[Suhail] No no, you are looking at it all wrong! I always say that a gooood PJ is one that makes the listener cringe in pain and let out cries of frustration. So an ‘arrrgghh’ is the highest compliment of all ;) It means you have rendered me speechless and all I can do is scream :)
[Rohit] Why not? Especially when the party doesn’t seem to be over yet! :)
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 11:53 PM
Yipeee…i joined the bandwagon too:)
The 5 pg discussion happened in one of our office discussion forums…highly hilarious but toatally inane.
BUt this comments sections beats it hands down; eps with the gyan being exchanged n multiple conversations…Phew!
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 2:44 AM
how about ram lakhan - ramayan???
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 3:57 AM
[Megha], like [Kumari] says, it’s a discussion from her company’s discussion forum. Just goes to show the kind of stuff jobless software engineers can come up with :)
This timeless classic (what else would you call it? It’s been mentioned on your blog!) can be found on the internet at -
Who or what is Maithili?
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 1:08 PM
[Kumari] Ah, she hath commented :) Yes I am quite amazed at the numbers of arcs and tangents in this commentspace! I would have asked you if this discussion was available online somewhere to read, but [Rajesh] has already answered that, so I shall go busy myself with it. Glad you dropped in! :)
[KJ] Hmm, now *that* is a thought! :) Although, I didn’t start out intending to connect Karan Arjun and the Mahabharata. They just happened by accident inside my twisted mind. So connecting Ram Lakhan and the Ramayana might be tougher. But thankoo for the idea. I shall try and come up with something :) Maybe not immediately, else it might seem unnecessarily irreverant, but a little while later, perhaps :)
[Rajesh] Like Midas’s touch turned everything into gold, my blog turns everything into mindless nonsense. It’s a special skill that I am proud of and am happy to see it being recognized and appreciated ;) Thank you for the link! I shall soon familiarize myself with this timeless classic :)
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 1:40 PM
Two contributions to the chhat brigage :)
From the song ‘Ude jab jab zulfein teri’ in Naya Daur:
Tujhe chaand ke bahaane dekhoo
Tu chhat par aaja goriye jind meriye
And Gulzar’s poetry in ‘Piya tora kaisa abhimaan’ from Raincoat:
Ye baarish gungunaati thi isi chhat ki munderon par
Yeh ghar ki khidkiyon ke kaanch par ungli se likh jaati thi sandese
Dekhti rahti hai baithi hui ab, band roshandano ke peeche se
…
Woh kya mausam ka jhauka tha, Jo is deewar par latki hui tasveer tirchhi kar gaya hai?
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 4:09 PM
[Anonymous] Ah lovely! Two songs, two different eras, two completely different styles — both wonderful! First, Asha and Rafi singing for O P Nayyar .. they don’t make simple down-to-earth numbers like these anymore.
And i’m totally and completely in love with mathura nagarpati and piya tora kaisa abhimaan from Raincoat. Shubha Mudgal’s deep resonant voice .. interspersed with Gulzar’s narrative in the latter. I especially love the lines you quoted — yeh ghar ki khidkiyon ke kaanch par ungli se likh jaati thi sandese .. An everyday thought that is painted as a beautiful picture in Gulzar’s words .. *sigh*
Next time I have roof-repairs happening at my end, I will hopefully think of Gulzar’s poetry instead of Mamta Kulkarni :) Which reminds me, I thought of another one to add to the chhat list — jhumka gira re from Mera Saaya, Asha singing for Madan Mohan —
ghar kii chhat pe main khaDi, galii mein dilbar jaani
hanske bole neeche aa, ab neeche aa deewaani
yaa anguuThi de apni ya chhalla de nishaani
ghar kii chaat pe khaDe khaDe main hui sharam se paani
haay, hui sharam se paani
<male voice: phir kya hua?>
phir jhumka gira re, hum dono ke is pyaar mein ..
jhumka gira re, bareilly ke bazaar mein ..
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 4:51 PM
congratulations on the blaahtinyum jubilee megha !
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 7:15 PM
lest i am the only person who blogs who doesn’t have a comment on this page - i comment a null - “” :)
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 8:37 PM
[Suhail] The puns never end eh? Thankoo thankoo :)
[Sagnik] Lest you become the only person who commented on this blog that I did not reply to - I reply with a :)
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 9:29 PM
By the time I did 34 page downs to reach here, I forgot what I was supposed to write. Since I am already here , I better write something here before this comment page becomes abysmal next time I am here:)
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 10:05 PM
[gvenum] You have the patience for 34 page-downs? I just use the ‘End’ key :)
And now, the unifying theme of the comments, is how overwhelming the comments are! Nice and recursive hm? :)
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 11:13 PM
[Rajesh]C’mon that’s not fair! jobless SE’s can also come up with comments oozing gyan in someone else’s blog like how i just did :)
[Megha] I always come here to comment but like [gvenum] says, by the time i reach the ‘Post Comment’ link, i lose “My Precious” :)
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 @ 11:49 PM
[Kumari] I agree completely! In fact I think the Maithili article is FULL of gyaan :)
As a corollary though, a software engineer with a job has no gyaan at all. :P
[Suhail] Thanks for the words man! Me suffering from a reaaaaallly bad bout of Writer’s block now, though :)
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 @ 5:37 PM
“[Suhail] The puns never end eh? Thankoo thankoo :)“
oye kee kariye paaji, pun-troll khatam hi nahin hota :-))
(those who havent seen the li’l cute sardar in maruti ad, will not get this line cent-pun-cent. so pliss excuse)
Rajesh, you are right. That article is total gyan. At last I realised that maithili is a jewish dialect of aryan monkeys who played cricket in Russia ;-)
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 @ 6:59 PM
ah! what a megha-pj
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 @ 8:13 PM
[Kumari] Aw, not fair. I think that complaint is valid only for this post :)
[Suhail] I haven’t seen the Maruti ad, so I am one of ‘those’ :( Khair koi nahin, I shall laugh at the sixty four percent of the joke that I did get ;)
[CV] Thankoo thankoo :)
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 @ 8:44 PM
Oh, wow, how nice is that. And 85 something comments, wow, hope someone is paying you money for all of this.
Wonder how many of your commenters would be women?
Anuja
Thursday, April 28, 2005 @ 3:42 AM
(To Anuja)
>>Wonder how many of your commenters would be women?
Aww-Shuks!…I thought you were straight..
Thursday, April 28, 2005 @ 4:26 AM
[Anuja] Thank you for looking out for my finances. I shall return the favor with a suggestion. You don’t have to ‘wonder‘ how many of my commenters are women. You can simply count :)
[A's_a] :)
Thursday, April 28, 2005 @ 2:29 PM
[Megha] Hmmmm.. *forgets what the post was all about.. what with 88 comments and atleast half a dozen of his own comments cluttering the landscape :p
Thursday, April 28, 2005 @ 9:23 PM
Well guess who is back??? Na, I am not referring to a schizoid psycho with a perception problem!
As I come here, what do I notice:
a)That I am the 90th or so commentor on this post (am sure there is a law against it, at least in some parts of the world. Just like I think there are laws against commentors with ‘unaccepatble’ levels of IQ and Emotional Intelligence. The search for the weapon’s of mass destruction is on double quick so as to nuke the living daylights out of all such life forms!)
b)That my claimed femininity is under scrutiny (Bah, I say! At least I am not a lower order life form)
Though, a reliable source (which is from the horse’s mouth) informs us that she/he/that is on her way out!
What is with the anti-women tirade I wonder – hate for women Bloggers, hate for women commentors; I think there is an attempt being made to create some false glass ceiling.
Now that I have given her adequate soundbytes I will give this issue a much needed burial!
Ah, Karna (significantly different from Karan) is the most complex and interesting character from the Mahabharata, I liked his pure gold (literally too) type loyalty. Though, by far the character who had much impact on me as a child was Draupadi (a woman saddled with 4 “other†men she never needed, seemed fun)
Hail the spirit of Womanhood!
Thursday, April 28, 2005 @ 9:49 PM
I counted, and there are 5.
5 out of 90, makes it 5.5 percent approximately. Your life seems like fun.
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 7:46 AM
[aNTi] A bunch of looney-bins is what we all are eh? :)
[Primalsoup] Ah, yet another post-length comment! Nopes, not complaining at all :)
I have no idea what the ‘unaccepatble’ reference was. I tried to do my homework but it still made no sense. So please to explain? As for my kidhood opinion of Draupadi, it was rather simple — she was a woman who got to wear a reeeeeeally long Vimal saree that was specially woven for her. (Remember that yellow and red thing Rupa Ganguly wore in the TV Serial especially for the vastraharan scene?) Yes, I was a strange child, to say the least.
[Anonymous] Thank you for the demographic breakup, although I didn’t ask for it :)
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 2:23 PM
Jesus H Christ :)
Seriously, start your own Amar Chitra Katha series :)
First time here but I WILL be returning!
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 4:12 PM
ahhhhhh! the ladies meet!
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 5:16 PM
[GratisGab] Aw thank you! I am really glad you dropped in and led me to discover your blog :) As I said on your blog as well, I had an absolutely awesome time reading what you write and plan to return soon. Hope to see you around here more often too! :) Cheers!
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 5:16 PM
[aNTi] You knew a fellow kook whose writing I would love and chose to keep that information from me? Oh the horror! Oh the sacrilege! No wonder you are so ‘undeserving’ ;) A li’l birdie mentioned that, by the way :)
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 5:22 PM
[Megha] Arreee… if you are talking about Gabby, I “know” her only since a couple of days (as unbelievable as it sound)!
And I am totally worried now that I will be the target of this huge group of women who’d wanna disfigure me! If u see Gabby around (btw, u are in Boston, too right?), would you pls vouch for my character? :D
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 5:26 PM
[aNTi] You’re worried now that a group of women would want to disfigure you? A li’l late to wake up and smell the coffee, no? And lack of interest in merchandise, he says .. and then expects vouching for character-varacter and what not. Tsk tsk :)
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 5:32 PM
[Megha] I never did use the word “merchandise” first! Someone used it and I replied to it. Now, IMHO, a proper answer to a good question involves the use of keywords used in the question.
For e.g.:
Good Question: How many letters do you have in your first name?
Proper Answer to the above Good Question: I have sixteen letters in my first name.
Essential keywords: letters, first name!
Similarly, I was asked about merchandise and I used merchandise to reply! I was asked about market and I used the word market to reply!
Is me mera kya dosh hai? Maain nirdosh hoon, your honor!
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 5:43 PM
I really don’t have anything to say. Except maybe, A HUNDRED COMMENTS ?!?!?! OH MY GOD !!!!!
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 5:47 PM
[aNTi] The issue was not the use of keywords ‘market‘ or ‘merchandise‘ (which were ably supplied by someone else). It was your claim of a lack of interest in said merchandise :) Let me put some fundas on this matter —
1. I am not in the market = I am not interested in merchandise. Since market is where merchandise is sold, and merchandise cannot be bought outside market, one automatically means the other.
2. I COULD be in the market, but to choose, not to be chosen - to choose or to be chosen, you would still have to set foot in market. You could be vendor, buyer or the fruit itself, but you are in the market, regardless.
3. If you believe you don’t deserve to be single, it translates to all birdies that you are looking to set foot in market. Therefore (refer to point 1) you are interested in merchandise, and all claims to the contrary are a bunch of humbug.
Okie, that should do for now :)
[Vignesh] Arrey! Why nothing to say? My bootiful PJ doesn’t deserve an ‘arghhh’ at least? :) But yeah, hundred comments is cool eh? Of course I myself wrote some 25 of them, but still :)
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 6:03 PM
Congrats! I have never seen so many comments for a single post except may be for Sidin.
Thats a milestone to remember.
Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 11:53 PM
I remember the last time I got som many comments; sorta got bored talking to myself for over a 100 times.
Saturday, April 30, 2005 @ 12:00 AM
Crossing the 100-comment mark might be a silly blog-milestone for some, but I’d be kidding if I said I wasn’t thrilled. The credit for this, of course, solely belongs to the readers and commenters of this blog. Even if this sounds like some cheesy acceptance speech, it is true. You comment, then come back to read the responses I write and post more counter-comments .. and in the process, give life to the many tangential discussions that take place in this commentspace! A heartfelt thank you to every single one of you, for that.
(That has to be a record of sorts for the number of times the word ‘comment’ appears in a sentence.)
[Paddy] Thank you! I wrote about 25 of them myself, but still, I’m mighty thrilled! :) Glad you dropped in after a long time!
[Rohit] Did you try assuming multiple personalities and posting with different names to make things more interesting? :)
Saturday, April 30, 2005 @ 1:05 AM
Things are always interesting with me around :P
Saturday, April 30, 2005 @ 1:20 AM
[Rohit] Didn’t someone *just* say he got bored talking to himself? I was just giving my usual helpful suggestions ;)
Saturday, April 30, 2005 @ 1:36 AM
[Paddy] Visits to Sidin’s blog used to be (until approximately July last year) like dinner at a seminar on politics (and I believe the only post that has 100+ comments is the Travails post). You came to the blog, you read, if the post was written between approximately April 2004 and July 2004, you probably laughed, maybe, just maybe, you commented. And then, you forgot about it.
This of course, is a completely different kind of party :) You come, you read, you speak to the hostess, socialize with other party-goers, there’s laughs, there’s music, there’s story-telling, and you Just… Don’t… Want… To… Leave!
[Megha] Happy 100+ Comments Day! :)
Saturday, April 30, 2005 @ 1:38 AM
[Megha] I think you do a darn good job of ‘hostess’ for the readers of your blog and hence could treat yourself for this ‘little’ event.
[Rajesh]Good Analytics there.And I couldnt agree with you more on the difference (Nicely expressed!).
Enthused by your responses I take the liberty to saying that Little’s law will not hold for Megha’s site.
Saturday, April 30, 2005 @ 4:34 PM
I’m bloody glad I found someone else who writes long elaborate stuff..
.. only as a build up to a sad PJ in the end! :)
We shud form a club or something :)
Saturday, April 30, 2005 @ 10:45 PM
hhmmmm…just had to get my name in here in this celebration :) Congrats Megha !
Sunday, May 1, 2005 @ 10:27 PM
Whooopppppeeeeeee!
Gosh if this is the route to stardom, i should have thought of PJs eons ago :p
And guess what? That makes two of us, who wondered about that looooooooooong Vimal saree. But i also worried how she kept her hair tangle free :)
btw, however lame it may sound
CONGRATSSSSSS on 100+ comments!!!
I don’t wanna leave like [Rajesh] said, lest i miss being the 200th commentator inspite of being one of the 5.5% :)
Monday, May 2, 2005 @ 1:42 AM
‘On the roof, in the rain’ is a better roof song I guess
Monday, May 2, 2005 @ 2:45 AM
Megha - I only just noticed this chit of an Anti whining here too…! Sorry for the tardy response on said matter.
Anti - You “know” me only since 2 days ? Is that how you put it? You’ve already started the daily Tamil tutions and what-not!!!….For the record, when you know 2 smart women, you introduce 2 smart women to eachother, and play nice…else where’s the chance of meeting other smart women at all??
Monday, May 2, 2005 @ 5:35 PM
Thirteen days!?! *sighs - but keeps quiet*
Monday, May 2, 2005 @ 5:54 PM
* decides to play nice with the said ladies.
Ladies, but I had no idea that I introduced two smart ladies to each other. Should I do the honors formally?
[Gabby] Mrs. Gabby. Meet Ms. Megha
[Megha] Ms. Megha. Meet Mrs. Gabby.
Monday, May 2, 2005 @ 6:28 PM
[Rajesh] Thank you! That was an extremely sweet thing to say :)
[Paddy] You are too kind, but thank you nevertheless!
[Harish] That sounds like a plan! :) Glad you dropped by!
[Suhail] Thankoo once again! :)
[Kumari] Not stardom, but notoriety, if some people are to be believed. And ah yes, there was a time when I wanted hair like Rupa Ganguly’s. But then again there was a time I had a crush on Chiranjeevi, so we’ve all had our share of interesting ‘wants’, I suppose ;) And thank you! Lots of ‘clarified butter and sugar in your mouth’ (direct translation of tumhaare mooh mein ghee shakkar) for the 200 comment remark :)
[Padmanabhan] Pretty much any song is better than chhat par soya thha behnoyi, I guess :) Thank you for the suggestion!
[GratisGab] So glad you’re knocking some sense into the man. Hopefully he will learn by association (with smart women, of course) :)
[Devdutt] Writing writing! Hoped to post tonight, but positively tomorrow. Thought you wouldn’t notice :)
[aNTi] Ahh, the boy is learning some social skills. There is hope for him after all. Hello once again, Gabby :)
Tuesday, May 3, 2005 @ 1:32 AM
comments++
Tuesday, May 3, 2005 @ 5:41 PM
[Sagnik] Uffff! :)
Tuesday, May 3, 2005 @ 5:45 PM
THE funniest blog I’ve come across… If there was a Nobel prize for blogging, you’d definitely make the shortlist. You rock, Megha!!
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 @ 5:00 AM
Megha
I have been following your blog for sometime now (and I quite enjoy your writing style) and I have a technical question for you. How do you get blogger to do category archiving for you? I have this food blog which I share with a bunch of friends and would like to add this feature to it without moving to movable type etc.
Thursday, June 9, 2005 @ 8:38 AM
[Pushuka] Thank you! While I am not deserving of such high praise, it still feels good to be on the Nobel prize short-list :) Hope to see you around again!
[Anyesha] To my knowledge, Blogger doesn’t allow post categories. What i’ve done has been achieved with manual HTML coding. I’ve added some Javascript simply to allow for the expand/collapse feature, so that the posts under each category don’t get as long as the river Nile. But other than that, it is just a bunch of hard-coded links. Hope that helped? Let me know if you have any further questions and i’ll be happy to try and answer them! And nice to put a name to a regular reader! Hope to see you around more often :)
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 @ 3:16 PM
lol….after long time seeing a good original PJ…..
check in a real bad PJ at
http://mantralay.blogspot.com/2005/07/aaj-ki-sholay.html
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 7:20 AM
This was definitely fun and a fantastic setup for the PJ :-)
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 @ 12:56 PM
[Mantri] Thank you! And I did check out your Sholay-PJ as well. Nice work :)
[Dan] Thank you. Glad you liked :)
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 @ 4:11 PM
karan from mahabharta could be killed by sun god and moon god if they work together and karan was a great god and warrior and also king.He was better then arjun but because he was cursed that when you want to use a bow and arrow he couldn’t thats why arjun killed.I wrote this and my name is karan.
Sunday, June 10, 2007 @ 11:42 AM