Mukesh Ambani of Reliance becomes the world’s richest man!
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani (from India) on Monday became the richest person in the world, surpassing American software czar Bill Gates, Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim Helu and famous investment guru Warren Buffett, courtesy the bull run in the stock market.
Following a strong share price rally today in his three group companies - India’s most valued firm Reliance Industries Ltd., Reliance Petroleum.Ltd., and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd - the net worth of Mukesh Ambani rose to $63.2 billion (Rs 2,49,108 crore).
In comparison, the net worth of both Gates and Slim is estimated to be slightly lower at around $62.29 billion each, with Slim leading among the two by a narrow margin.
Warren Buffett, earlier the third richest in the world, also dropped one position with a net worth of about $56 billion.
~ From: Rediff.com :: Read it from CNBC here.
But there were skeptics who thought Reliance will cease to be the Numero Uno after the split between brothers, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, but both are growing in wealth!
This is really a good news for every Indian!
Bravo, Mukesh!
Bachelors beware!
The following are the points for consideration by prospective bridegrooms before taking a plunge in a wedlock with a girl, who is likely to cause enormous misery to you, your parents and sisters!
Use your grey matter. Stop to think. don’t rush your “aye”. Marriage is a game more of intelligence than of emotions.
- If the girl’s father is hen-pecked (that is, has no say in her family and/ or bears little or no relation with his own parents),
If you see rule no 1 on your marriage, simply walk out of the mandap. no second thoughts.never marry the girl.
- Always have a gap of 5-6 months between the day you meet her first and the day of your engagement. Meet her atleast 10 times before taking a plunge.
- The girl’s family values play much more significant role than her education level.
- If the girls’ parents insist for an early marriage, rest assured there is some problem.
- Never marry in hurry, Just because you have been searching for partner for past 3-4 years should not become a cause for concern. It’s better late than suffer from anti-dowry law (498A).
- If during background check, somebody pointed out something negative about the girl, take it seriously. Remember, people normally don’t point out trivial deficiencies.
- Dont trust girl’s or your relatives blindly, no matter how close they are. Do your own background check.
- She is toxic if she
- has invited very few relatives on her marriage
- has excessively enquired about your financial status and spendings
- gave you an indication that she may not want to live with your parents
- is excessively attached with her family but do not show an equivalent degree of attachment with your parents
- Last and very important, always trust the instinct of your parents. They are seasoned and see much more than you can. Even small details seen by your old parents, which may seem very trivial to you, can be very important.
Important:
If rule no 1 is found true, simply walk out of the marriage hall. Don’t tarry! No second thoughts.
Dosa Kingdom
A Dosa is a wholesome food! A healthy man(Ok,ok, woman!) needs a healthy breakfast - declare the dieticians, perhaps because our digestive system is at its peak in the mornings. But then what is the fare for the breakfast? This is a very baffling question! The trendies and the dandies amongst us may settle for corn flakes soaked in milk. But it looks synthetic and devoid of life to me. It also symbolises laziness. Breakfast (at least) must be eaten hot-hot, although Mr.V.Gangadhar of “slice of life”, with his native wisdom has canvassed so eloquently for the cold rice with “Veppilai Katti”. I hope he has not so far dealt with dosas in one of his ’slices’. Anyway dosas surely deserve a second look ! Oh! What an aroma ! I will give half my kingdom for a mildly steaming, pimpled, gold complexioned wafer-roll-dosa (Dosai for Tamilians) on any day of the week. A dosa is the key-note of any tiffin-menu. Iddlies may come, bondas may go but dosas are here for ever !
The Role of Dosa!
It is one of those occupational hazards where one is forced to throw parties on any pretext - even as silly as having a hair-cut (a long overdue one at that!). Sometimes vital information on any big purchase or children scoring first rank etc. is withheld, but intelligence is always gathered through some fifth columnists and a “Treat” is forced upon the sucker(after a bit of haggling, of course!). Puritans, as we are, we do not go high, but merely settle down to “SKCs”(acronym for Sweet,Karam (Savories) and Coffee). Karam is the real spread, performing the satiating role, while the sweet adds respectability to the occasion. The coffee merely concludes the event. The Karam usually consists of a light snack - vada, bajji, bonda etc. immediately followed by the inevitable dosa. It has several incarnations: The Sada Dosa, the plain vanilla one is for the ordinary, Masal dosa is for the choosy one. But in Karnataka, a dosa is a Masala Dosa with a thick layer of butter glistening on it!
The Variety Fare!
There is a class distinction on dosas as also with their predators. There are plebeian sada dosas and patrician special dosas. But the regal one is the “special-Onion-Rava - Dosai”. My wife always suggests to me to have Rava Dosas in hotels since they are not usually made at home. A restaurant in Madras used to flaunt a 8-foot-long dosa with a challenge to eat it whole and win a prize ! Some eating joints conduct dosa festivals with mind boggling variety of this delicacy for the adventurous ones. The broad based term dosa embraces its close cousin ‘Oothappam’ also. Some pessimists frown at Oothappam with disapproval, with the misconception that Oothappams are made from stale and sour dough. But don’t believe them - Oothappam has really carved a niche among gourmets ! Onion Oothappam da jawab nahin !
I ate delicious Dosa’s!There is an old mess at Chennai (a k a Madras) wherein the waiter quizzes your preference - whether you will have a “Gingely - oil - dosa ” or “Ghee Dosa”. If you are prompted by your snobbish trait and order for a Ghee dosa with a stiff upper lip, you are missing something!. Dosai and Gingely oil are made for each other. Connoisseurs always prefer this combination over the ghee variety.
Dosa’s don’t go alone!
We are making to the restraunt to eat delicious Dosa’s! Now, for the accompaniments. Though staple ones like chutney and sambar come in handy, with a piece pinched off and given a holy dip in a catorie of sambar before being transported to the palate, it is the connoisseurs’ considered view that dosas always go better with ‘Milagai Podi’ - the treated chilli-powder with a liberal puddle of gingely oil. The veterans of my village used to devour a pile of several dosas ( there is a taboo against counting them!) for ‘palakaram’ meaning a light snack (sic). The Milagai Podi is laid on top of the pile with a liberal flow of oil. The juice percolates down the layers through the honey-combs duly entering into the requisite chemical reactions. The result is a virtual trinity of dosa, podi and oil in a complex molecular linkage (or a spiritual unison!) that will make any mouth water !
Dosa’s help Research!!
There is nothing to equal Dosa!A friend of mine did a bilingual research and found out that the dosa derived its name from the two “c-h-o-I-n-g” sounds that it makes on the pan. “Do” (Hindi) - “choing” - become “Do-sai” and ‘dosa’ in Hindi since the last syllable is always chopped off in that language.
There are some innovative ones who continually experiment with different ways of dosa-making. One of them is the “Kal-dosai” made by sautéing the unfermented dough on one side only with a hood placed over it for the steaming effect on top. A few prefer this Katcha variety. My mother tells me that “Kal Dosa” was made with very little oil mainly for taking as packed snacks during long journeys in olden days. It is made a wee bit soft and plump. Take my word, it tastes good!
Cyber Dosa!!
Dosas have entered high-tech automation nowadays. An entrepreneur has come up with a gadget that makes masal dosas automatically and delivers them as snack rolls. The day is not far off when the shape, size and the stuffing of dosas will be designed by a computer! Then they will be called CAD (Computer-aided-Dosais!).
Resplendent toes!
As mentioned by me in an earlier posting, female feet and toes tickle many a male into ecstasy. There are many foot-fetishers, one of the famous one being the Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino. But fetish or no fetish, none can deny that there is enough beauty in a female foot as in any other curve of the fairer sex! The foot shown above bears ample testimony to this unassailable fact!
(Photo courtesy: The Hindu)
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The Great Indian Loo
YouTube - Watch - Indian&Western Style Loos
There are basically two types of squatters on the pot. The Indian style and the Europian style. So when you start building your house, the engineer will ask you a query as to what style to put in what bathroom (rest room, in US parlance) - IWC or EWC (WC==Water closet)? You have to choose the right one. It is normally EWC for the master bedroom where the memsaab and the master will be cosy and comfy. But for the “common” toilet is relegated to the “desi” style. Even our trains have 1 out of four in “Western Style”. Though the converts to Western style commode is growing, owing to the comfortable seating and the possibilities that it throws up for “multi-tasking”, you can’t discount the inherent advantages of our Indian style. More on this theme as you progress!
The Euro style is really versatile. You can view the boy making it into a veritable paradise! Some folks are even more ingenious. The rig up a book-rack, hi-fi, a PC (or even a pantry :lol:) inside the rest room!
Yes. Toilet is the place people are at “ease”. Whether it is a mere pee or the “big one”, you release all the tension that has built up in you and you regain your poise and equanimity after the affair is over. So the loo is the real stress buster of your household. Read more
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