Kanna Toke Kabya Kore Uriye Dilam, Jah!

Kanna Toke Kabya Kore Uriye Dilam Jah..

Sukher Jholai Bazar Kora
Dukkhu bhora sabji,
Kanna ghore ranna kori;
Dubiye kheyo kobji.


-Kousani,
13th July, 2009

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The Girlie Girl talk and an wonder car named Nano

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The first few paragraphs are not for male readers! You guys don't understand "what woman want"!! Though woman isn't that complex character! We just want a few good things in life to be happy! We want to go to shopping when we are sad! We want shopping when we are happy! We like shopping when we need something and we like shopping when we don't need anything at all!

So what will you do in a hot never ending noon to chill? Of course shopping! It's a therapy to feel good! It will cheer you up! By God's grace I had a whole day to chill in the middle of the week!! No good films to watch, so I just drove to Mani Square Mall with a friend.

First of all it has a great parking place! It's cooler than air-conditioned area. I browsed through all the shops in all the levels! Specially the shoe sections, I have some kind of fixation for foot wares! And though I don't need any more of them and don't have any more space to stack them up I bought three pairs! It felt so good, after coming back home I wore all three of them and walked all over my apartment!

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Walking and browsing items is real hard job! After gobbling a MacDonald Wrap and a burger with cold coffee I went to Starmark. I love the smell of books! I revisited my childhood! Bought two pens (though I don't write, only type!), a pen stand (for two pens! I should be ashamed of myself!). I tried to bought two Tintin comic books (though I have the full collection in my laptop!). My friend gave me so hard stare, I got scared and returned them!

Then straight to West Side! Not much self-indulgence there! Only a Revlon mascara and an eyeliner. They gave me a set of coffee mugs free with them! My friend laughed his guts out to see that, two little pencil like things and two big mugs free with them! They should give those pencils free with the fine crockery, he said! Shut up! What do you understand about make-up?! It's a girl thing!

And I saw the Nano there! A lady was shouting in the watch counter behind. She bought an one lac rupee watch which was damaged!

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Nano is something which I never expected it to be! It has amazing height! Ingress and egress is so easy! Leg space is very good both at driver's seat and in rear! Shoulder space is amazing! Two fat people can easily sit in front and their shoulders will never touch! The top model was in display. It has a price tag of 1.85lacs. In that price it's a steal! People will probably come to window shopping one day and buy Nano in an impulse! The design of the car is outstanding, it's so so spacious! The front seats have more head room than any other city cars!

The catch? Well you see, with price cuts you loose a few things! The plastic quality is bad, look very cheap. It's not a hatchback as it has no hatch. Very little space for luggage. Engine not very powerful. But you can't ask for more in that price! Period! Hats off to Mr Ratan Tata! Nano is an wonder car! It's much much better than Alto or 800!

When Nano plant left from West Bengal I felt so sad. Millions of young people feel the same. They don't speak out. Because we like to see things in political colours. If we speak our mind, people will conclude we support this party or that. An automobile revolution left Bengal. A generation lost something so precious, probably they will understand it's value after 40-50 years! Automobile industry shaped the course of US. It changed the future of Japan. If you have doubt read history. And we kicked out all aspirations, dreams, hopes of a generation out of our soil for petty politics. Shame on us.

At the end of the day I want to throw the sandals I bought...don't know whether they will hit or miss the "mugs" who deserve it.

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Rambles of a hungry soul

It's Poush Sankranti. Pithe Puli is my favorite sweet, I am crazy for it. And my mom makes it particularly well! She is in Murshidabad. Sister told me over phone that Pithe were just heavenly this time!

To make matters worse I shot a scene for a TV soap that we are eating Pithe Puli . We had to fake it as there were no edible Pithe present as props!



And I am trying to follow low -carb almond rich diet!
All I have to eat is soup, apples and nuts!

So I have gone nuts a bit!

At midnight I checked mails and messages, well only some of them (Kind of scared of my inbox now. 112 unanswered mails.) "Happy Poush Sankranti" they said. I got ferocious. With an almost empty stomach it's a torture when someone sends you a picture of Pati-Sapta with Kheer inside!

I thought about some update lines in Facebook. (People think when they have nothing to eat! :p)

A little girl asked me (referring the serial Ekhane Aakaash Neel) "Kousanidi will Ujan finally get Hiya?"
My answer: Who is Hiya, Who is Ujan? And who are you by the way?
You see I am suffering from short term memory loss now! All you have to do is give me a box of Pithe Puli, then I will remember everything. (8

So line no: 1:
Kousani is suffering from anterograde amnesia. Doctors have advised Pithe Puli to recover!

Some took it seriously! A friend from US was worried, so had to explain what Pithe Puli is! And you can understand my suffering doing that!

Line no: 2:
Kousani learnt today money can't buy everything, for example Pithe Puli!

Well I don't know a sweet shop which is open at midnight and makes Pithe Puli. It takes a mother with all other ingredients to make it. :(

Line no: 3:

Kousani is a ferocious Pithe-eater!

Well even yesterday about 6girls from Jogesh Chandra College gate crashed in to the studio. No body else was present, so they took pictures of me, took some sample signatures (I amn't sure if they will not try to grab my bank accounts! :P)
If everybody know it, some will surely bring Pithe (I hope against hope!) next time!

Line no: 4:

May the people who are eating Pithe Puli without sharing have severe stomach trouble! Come to Tulip, and I will give them wrong injection!

Tulip is a fictious Nursing Home where I am a doctor. And so much in love with another doctor that I am giving wrong injections to patients!

There is a saying if you want something with all your heart, you will get it!
I want Pithe Puli with all my hunger, just pray for me!

Amader Gaan

Amra Bangla Bhasa-bhasi
Mora chash-bash baro bhalobasi

Moder jami falai je dhan
Se dhan khabe Chin o Japan

Chori na gari
Paribesh niye chinta moder
Bejai bhari..
Paramanur satheo ari..
Chal ar vote dui darkari..

Kalidash mora
Je daal kati
Sei dale bosi
Shilpo-tilpo "Sanande" hok
Sanonde boli..

Mora Nirananda
Pithe kather lang(n)al tuli.
Mukhe lamba-chowra buli..
Chhera kanthai suye kori
Bush er baap-bapanto..
Moder pran ta je chash-anto!!

An Oily Affair!

Inflation is hurting us all.
So is the oil price! Last time I checked mustard oil is 94Rs/L! And my "Rannar Lok" [Glorified title is "Cook"] thinks I am related to Sultan of Brunnei! She generouly puts oil in everything she cooks. I was terrified to eat her "Elish Bhapa"[Steam Hilsha]! It was like boiled fish in raw oil!

I am trying to forget my favorite dish "Aloo-Posto"[Potato with Poppy seeds]. Posto-bara[A snack from poppy seeds] is a distant dream. "Posto" is 560Rs/Kg! Somebody somewhere has gone crazy! Are they mixing gold dust with poppy seeds?!! I wonder!

And what about petrol? At 56-58 Rs it's making the decision to buy a new car very tough!
Did a little research on fuel prices around the world:

Country____________$/L__________ Rs/L

Australia ___________1.52_________ 64.3
Bahrain (Manama) ____0.27 _________11.4
Belgium (Brussels) ____2.48 _________104.9
Brazil (São Paulo) _____1.59 _________ 67.3
Brunei _____________0.39 _________16.5
Canada ____________1.324 _________56
Chile ______________1.27 __________53.7
China _____________0.806 _________ 34
Colombia ___________1.07 _________45.26
Croatia ____________1.95 _________82.5
Cyprus ____________1.87 _________79.1
Denmark (Copenhagen)_ 2.46_______ 104
Dominican Republic ____1.51 ________63.9
Egypt (Cairo) ________0.32 ________13.53
Eritrea _____________2.53 _______107
Estonia _____________1.79 ________75.7
Finland _____________2.35________99.4
France _____________2.13 ________90
Germany ___________2.43 _______102.8
Greece _____________1.95 ________82.5
Guatemala __________1.95 ________82.5
Honduras ___________1.07________45.3
Hong Kong __________ 2.20 _______93.06
Hungary ____________ 1.985 ______83.9
Iceland _____________2.25________95
India (NOIDA) ________1.36 _______56
Indonesia ____________0.65 ______ 27.5
Iran ________________0.11 _______4.653
Ireland ______________2.13 ______ 90
Israel _______________1.9 ________80.37
Italy _______________2.32________ 98.14
Japan ______________1.60 ________67.68
Kuwait (Kuwait City)____ 0.21 ________8.88
Malaysia ____________0.84 ________ 35.53
Mexico (Mexico City) ___0.62 ________ 26.23
Moldova (Chisinau) _____1.24 ________ 52.45
Monaco _____________2.20 _________93
Netherlands __________2.67 _________113

New Zealand _________1.62 _________68.5
Nigeria (Lagos) _______0.595 ________25.17
North Korea _________1.19 _________50.34
Norway (Oslo) ________2.73 _______ 115.5
Pakistan ____________1.22 _________51.6
Peru (Lima) _________1.609 _________68

Philippines (Cebu) _____1.22 __________ 51.6
Poland (Krakow) ______2.06 __________87.14
Portugal ____________2.42 _________102.4

Qatar (Doha) ________0.22 ____________9.3

Romania (Bucharest) __1.78 ____________75.3
Russia (Moscow) _____1.08 ___________ 45.6

Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) _0.12 _____________5.076

Sierra Leone ________4.87 ___________206
Singapore __________1.82____________ 77

Slovenia ___________1.92 ____________81.2
Sri Lanka__________ 1.46 ____________ 61.7
South Africa ________1.47 ____________62.18
South Korea ________1.95____________82.48
Spain (Madrid) ______2.14 ____________90.5
Sweden ____________2.30 ___________ 97.29
Switzerland (Zurich)____1.88 ___________79.5
Thailand ___________ 1.21 ____________51.2
Taiwan ____________1.05 ____________44.4
Trinidad and Tobago ___0.48 ___________20.3
Turkey ____________2.68 ___________113.4
Turkmenistan ________0.08 ___________ 3.38
UAE ______________ 0.37 ___________ 15.65

Ukraine ____________1.38_____________58.4
United Kingdom ______2.33 ____________ 98.56
United States ________1.03 ____________ 43.5
Uruguay (Montevideo) _1.6 ______________67.68
Venezuela (Caracas) ___0.03_____________ 1.269
Vietnam ___________1.13 _____________47.8

In some countries oil price is amusingly low!! Like Venezuela it's 1.269Rs/per L !! Those countries like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Qatar, Kuwait, Brunei, Bahrain etc are big oil producers. They have kept oil price low in their countries. But in other countries who have to buy oil, why there is so much difference? Export costs are different. But the main reason is the tax system.
Also another fact is, oil price is 43.5 Rs/L in USA. That is much lower than India and Europe. Though US is the one of the biggest oil producer, it's the biggest oil importer and user!! Approximately it produces 8.3 million barrel oil and consumes 20.58 million barrels per day! Compare it to India, India needs about 2.53 million barrels per day! US use about 8 times more oil than India!!
China uses about 7.27 million barrels per day. So in near future India will need that kind of amount and China's oil consumption will be near US.

So where is oil price heading?