Let me try my hand on India and China

In today's world if there is one thing that features on the business magazine covers every other day, is discussion about Chinese or Indian economy. Every columnist is talking about the huge economic growth already seen by these two countries. So what is really happening here? Why suddenly every other company is rushing to China or opening a tech-development centre in India?

To understand all these halla gullas, we need to start from the basics. Economics is a subject which deals with this. This subject tries to answer why, in Bangalore, we buy drum sticks Rs 10 per 2 on Monday while on Tuesday its Rs 5 per 2. And if you dig deeper, you will also know why in Kolkata, the same quality drumsticks sell at Rs 2 per 2 on Monday and at Rs 1 per 2 on Tuesday.

Unless you are somebody who has never been to a market to buy a thing or has never had a single lesson in economics, I suppose you know the story behind the fluctuations of drumstick price. Its Demand and Supply. Assuming constant demand, when supply is more in the market, price goes down and vice versa.

Now we change the topic and talk about a small island nation which is totally cut from the outside world. People of this

My office shifted to the new place last Monday. I loved the idea of my office being shifted to a place near my house in JB Nagar. Generally it took me around 45 minutes to reach my old office in Infantry Road. Last week I took, on average, 1 hour and 10 minutes or so of which 50 minutes I spent looking for an auto-ricksaw (there is no bus) to reach my office! Auto drivers refused to come even after I offered them 10 rupees extra. Our office has been shifted to such a godforsaken place!

The same thing happened yesterday. Me and M went to watch a movie. We started around 2 o'clock. The show was at 3 pm in Rex. We waited for half an hour for a bus. We couldn't even get an auto. At 2:30 we got a bus to Shivajinagar. At 3:10 we started walking towards Inox. Tickets for all the shows in Rex till Monday afternoon were sold out. Same story repeated in Inox. We were back to our house. Depressed disappointed. M was tired and I felt so helpless.

I had a weird dream last night. Neither-because it had two different parts, I can describe now properly. First one was like, from a house at the other side of the street, I am looking at some beautiful lady lying in a room at the rooftop who can be seen through a window. Then I go to her and suddenly her face becomes cadaverous. And then she is also locked inside the room and I dont know where the key is.

Then I dont know what was next. In the next scene I could remember, I and S were trying to come back to some big junction. So we hijacked a train and drove it to this junction. And we had fun in this. We were driving the train not on the rail line but on the plain ground. Not all the time. It was on and off the track. Then we reached the station and parked it in some corner. As we were coming out of the train, somebody caught us. At this point I was very scared but again in dream. But he only asked did you drive the train using the mouse or the "power-board"(something like that).

Anyway the pics from Chennai trip are here and that means I can fill in some space here.

Inside a cave in Mahabalipuram. The "pose" was choreographed by D. (Now dont ask me whats the bottle doing there?)

"দেখেছো তো",আমার বৌ বলবে Park Street এ বসে Burning Alaska খেতে খেতে, "তুমি এতো যায়গায় যাও কোথাও আমাকে নিযে যাও না"

I went to Chennai last weekend. I want to write about the tour but somehow not getting ideas about what to write. So let me try differently.

Chennai is hot. We went to Pondicherry and Mahabalipuram. One train derailed. Me and S were stranded in Chennai station. The marriage was colorful. We went to D's home in Kalpakkam. R's wife talks funny. Saved one guy from drowning in Mahabalipuram

Just back from Chennai. Mahabalipuram was ok. Pondycherry is ok.