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Fistfight between friends - Part VI

  Dear readers, At the outset, I wish to clarify that this sixth part of the story is the last one in this series. The fight, which we had nearly 10 years back was a hazy picture in my mind earlier. When ,I wrote the first part, I was looking for the introduction,main body as well as other ingredients of the story. I had no idea how to write a readable story. So, I decided that I will write first and think later. Thinking is the biggest hurdle in the path of story-telling. I decided to take inspiration from story-writer of Salman Khan. This man is made of stainless steel . He wrote some of the worst stories ever in the annals of Hindi film history. Dabangg, Ready & Bodyguard........but these three films are also the biggest revenue-earner in Bombay. In fact,Body Guard earned 21 Crore on the opening day itself. There is an old saying in Benars,that you can not fool all the people all the time. But, this bugger has made a fool of us time and again.So, I decided to write ...

Fistfight between friends - Part V

Dear readers, Please accept my heartfelt thanks for showering few buckets of affection on my blog page.I must confess here...............that I am perplexed that how do people tolerate my nonsensical writings time and again. Nevertheless,I am humbled .....what do I say here...simply thanks. Concept of blogging is a funny thing.It provides me all the data to monitor your reading habits concerning my blog. Last time,when I was leafing through the page view data country-wise....I found visitors from Singapore,Germany,Netherlands, Slovenia,Denmark,United States in addition to HongKong,Haiti & Dominican Republic where some of my friends are earning their bread. I do not know anyone from those countries....neither I have put my foot on their airports except Singapore. So, I became happy..very happy in fact to find out that I have readers in such a wide variety of nations. Columbus took so much pain, fought with oceanic disturbances in primitive ships to explore the new wor...

Fistfight between friends - Part IV

  Dear readers, A weekend has again cropped up in our life ......If you start the ending of week from friday night then Saturday night can be rightfully termed as median of the weekend.I was trying to write this piece on Saturday but it got delayed few hours due to ongoing US Open.How can I leave Federer playing alone in hurricane-hit NewYork. No problem....thinking of weekend now........This concept of workweek and weekend is one of the most underrated discovery by human civilization. Imagine, if you had to work on all 07 days of the week. Tiring, isn't it ? So,you must be thankful to Henry Ford who decided that his automotive factories will close shutters on Saturday & Sunday way back during early years of 20th Century. Since that era, we are celebrating every week. Dining and drinking on weekend became the norm. Normally,weekend is based on cultural ethos of community........Friday for Muslims, Saturday for Jewish (Shabbat) and Sunday for Christians is considered a...