I have heard of the great California Gold Rush, it is said that actually many people did get some Gold back then,
a few years back, in the sleepy city of Pune, there was a similar Rush, a Gold and Fortune Rush, however true to 21st century futurism, rather than being an actual Gold Rush, this was a Future and Options Gold Rush !!
(revised with inputs from Mr D H Ashish)
It was a really cold winter morning, one of those mornings, when you wake up, stay awake for half an hour or so, and then drop back into your bed, and doze off. Half asleep, the dreams are vivid, maybe because it is 10 am and the diffused light in the room is making the scenery vivid! also for some unknown reason you do have control over the events in your dreams. There I was at some Himalayan foothill, planning my arduous trek to the summit, pondering on how to navigate the heights, unassisted, without ropes or any safety equipment, (ala Point Break!). Sadly, that morning I forgot to put my phone on silent, and that ‘tring tring’ broke my adventurous ardour
In my partial state of enlightenment, in a very lazy manner and with an equally lazy tone, I picked the call and said, “hello”
On a scale of excitement from one to hundred, I was at negative 10, and the caller at the other end was positive 110. That hyper excited dude in an exuberant tone said, “Did you read today’s newspaper?”
His loud tone jolted me a bit, I opened my eyes to glance at the phone to check who is calling, it was ‘P.cat’ calling. (this is not the time to ponder over why my contact list is full of nicknames instead of full names). I put the call on speaker, trying to muster up some enthusiasm to match that of my caller, I said, “yes..” actually I wanted to add something to my answer and elaborate it, but saying ‘yes’ in a rather high tone (scale reading positive 10), sapped away most of my lazy energy, and I uttered just that one word
However, polar opposite at the other end, he doubled down on his tone and in a rather accusatory manner hurled his question at me. “then why did you not tell me?”
Now obviously the grammar of his question is wrong, however since my grammar is also not that great, it was not worth chastising him on that, However he was acting unreasonable. a typical newspaper has an average of 14 pages, each page with 5 main articles, 5 short articles, plus the roughly 4 advertisements. oh yes, count the astro, cartoon, TV and movie schedules, page3 pics etc. Now what exactly of this vast trove of letters and images was I supposed to read, digest, relate, and then think – ‘this might be of interest to A, B or C, thus I need to call A, B and C and tell them’!.
However in my slumber state, I had no energy in me to rant at him, so I dropped back to my negative 10 tone to say, “what”
His enthusiasm was just rising like the barometer reading above boiling water, unnecessarily, he got louder, and I heard him as loud as the speaker of my phone could be, “In today’s paper it says Today is Grand Kuber Muhurat”
Muhurats in India are like
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