Today is one of the big Ganpathi immersion days. This festival makes me so aggressive, the way it brings everything to a standstill for the entire period which is more than 10 days. The fridge, eg., at my grandmother’s has conked out and I know that nobody from the company (WHIRLPOOL!) is going to even come and look at it – those engineers are probably going to be sitting at home doing pooja. The sadistic part of me wants it to really pour this afternoon about the time the processions set off. Then everyone can have fun!
They make Ganpathis out of just about everything these days. Out of Glucose biscuits, aluminium vessels, out of sweetmeats and now I read that there’s an idol somewhere put together out of over 300 clocks! Anyway, it might sound sacrilegious but it seems such a waste to put those idols together and to then go and drown them in the sea or some lake.
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Read some stuff in the Times today that would definitely interest Sharat. It seems smokers can offset the damage done by smoking, to their lungs by swallowing 500mg of Vitamin C every day. (Listen Sharat, this was just for your amusement - I wouldn't really buy the theory!) Unfortunately there is no such antidote for the over consumption of alcohol.
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