Tryst with destiny
On August 14, 1947, at the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world slept, India awoke to life and freedom.
Yesterday, at the stroke of midnight hour, I awoke to Santa and Banta Singh, who had come to my place with a few beers and wanted to spend the night at my place. Now these two, unlike Santa-Banta reputation, are smart people. Santa is a JAVA and PHP programmer. Banta is even smarter. He is not a JAVA and PHP programmer.
After 3 hours and a dozen beers, three of us were watching the last day of the India-NewZealand 2nd test on TV. It was going to be an uphill task to save the test. As Jeeten Patel bowled to Sachin, Santa, who was busy writing code all this while, took his eyes off his laptop and asked - 'Why are we watching Maharashtra-Gujarat Ranji match?'. Now Banta, true to his initials, is full of BS. Cheekily, he remarked - 'Because the winner will play Punjab in the finals’. This response was more than enough for Santa to get interested. ‘So, who is playing for Punjab’? – he fired another one.
And then Banta Singh responded with a list – which was quite appalling.
1. Harbhajan Singh
2. Navjot Singh Sidhu
3. Maninder Singh
4. Reetinder Singh Sodhi
5. Bishen Singh Bedi
6. Balwinder Singh Sandhu
7. Tara Singh (of Gadar fame)
8. Deva (opening batsman from Lagaan)
9. Happy (from Singh is King)
10. Lucky (from Singh is King)
11. Ghanta Singh (introducing Ghanta, Santa-Banta’s friend from their village)
This atrocious response was good enough for Santa. He was pretty pleased with the team, as their best friend Ghanta had made it big. I changed channels to divert their attention from cricket discussion. A movie was on – ‘Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar’, where three protagonists, played by Sanjay Suri, Madhavan and Jimmy Shergill decide to enter a singing and musical competition. The events that lead to this competition, and their personal lives, including their romantic ties, is the theme of this movie. In the end, Sanjay Suri’s song, even though it fails to win the competition, ends up healing his girlfriend’s brother, whose legs are paralyzed after a mental trauma.
And then they all come together to sing the final climax-titles song ‘Yaadon ki Baaraat’, with their respective WAGs. The paralysed guy is also up on his feet, walking all around, and even singing. Moreover, he has Sanjay Suri’s sister at his side. It seems, she always had a thing for him.
Santa looked up from his laptop again, curiosity got the better of him again, and he asked – ‘Yeh chautha launda chalne kaise lag gaya? Aur isko bandi kaise mil gayi?’. Banta, who was really high by now, was pretty assertive in his response – ‘Kyon na miley bandi - now toh all three legs are working, hainji?’. I could make out from his sardonic smile that things were going to get worse, and really cheap.
I changed to Discovery channel, only to discover that two turtles were doing it. Lest these two decided to follow suit, I changed to cricket again. Bloody, ‘maa de laadle’, these two are, and watching Santa-Banta into action was the last thing I wanted.
Indian top order was amazing, as they saved the Napier test, retaining the 1-0 lead in the Test series.
Ps. For those to want to know more about Ghanta Singh, please visit http://www.GhantaAndTheCow.com
Yesterday, at the stroke of midnight hour, I awoke to Santa and Banta Singh, who had come to my place with a few beers and wanted to spend the night at my place. Now these two, unlike Santa-Banta reputation, are smart people. Santa is a JAVA and PHP programmer. Banta is even smarter. He is not a JAVA and PHP programmer.
After 3 hours and a dozen beers, three of us were watching the last day of the India-NewZealand 2nd test on TV. It was going to be an uphill task to save the test. As Jeeten Patel bowled to Sachin, Santa, who was busy writing code all this while, took his eyes off his laptop and asked - 'Why are we watching Maharashtra-Gujarat Ranji match?'. Now Banta, true to his initials, is full of BS. Cheekily, he remarked - 'Because the winner will play Punjab in the finals’. This response was more than enough for Santa to get interested. ‘So, who is playing for Punjab’? – he fired another one.
And then Banta Singh responded with a list – which was quite appalling.
1. Harbhajan Singh
2. Navjot Singh Sidhu
3. Maninder Singh
4. Reetinder Singh Sodhi
5. Bishen Singh Bedi
6. Balwinder Singh Sandhu
7. Tara Singh (of Gadar fame)
8. Deva (opening batsman from Lagaan)
9. Happy (from Singh is King)
10. Lucky (from Singh is King)
11. Ghanta Singh (introducing Ghanta, Santa-Banta’s friend from their village)
This atrocious response was good enough for Santa. He was pretty pleased with the team, as their best friend Ghanta had made it big. I changed channels to divert their attention from cricket discussion. A movie was on – ‘Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar’, where three protagonists, played by Sanjay Suri, Madhavan and Jimmy Shergill decide to enter a singing and musical competition. The events that lead to this competition, and their personal lives, including their romantic ties, is the theme of this movie. In the end, Sanjay Suri’s song, even though it fails to win the competition, ends up healing his girlfriend’s brother, whose legs are paralyzed after a mental trauma.
And then they all come together to sing the final climax-titles song ‘Yaadon ki Baaraat’, with their respective WAGs. The paralysed guy is also up on his feet, walking all around, and even singing. Moreover, he has Sanjay Suri’s sister at his side. It seems, she always had a thing for him.
Santa looked up from his laptop again, curiosity got the better of him again, and he asked – ‘Yeh chautha launda chalne kaise lag gaya? Aur isko bandi kaise mil gayi?’. Banta, who was really high by now, was pretty assertive in his response – ‘Kyon na miley bandi - now toh all three legs are working, hainji?’. I could make out from his sardonic smile that things were going to get worse, and really cheap.
I changed to Discovery channel, only to discover that two turtles were doing it. Lest these two decided to follow suit, I changed to cricket again. Bloody, ‘maa de laadle’, these two are, and watching Santa-Banta into action was the last thing I wanted.
Indian top order was amazing, as they saved the Napier test, retaining the 1-0 lead in the Test series.
Ps. For those to want to know more about Ghanta Singh, please visit http://www.GhantaAndTheCow.com
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