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How I Lost My Two Bucks!

Dadajan Pay, a multinational technology company, has a huge advantage for nonentities like me: it doesn't yet charge the ' platform fee ' which was recently imposed as one more unnecessarily taxing/extracting money from nonentities like me! Yes! All other Pays like Dagger Pay ,  Taser Pay, Knife Pay Fork Pay or whatever are already charging platform fees for all bills, recharges and all! No doubt, Dadajan Pay of the veteran company that boasts of an 'online marketplace for anything' is only trying to compete better with the numerous technology giants that have joined the Pay business, after the introduction and immediate popularity of the UPI system in India . Apart from the no-platform fee Dadajan Pay also offers a variety of Scratch Card Rewards including instant cashback rewards. Therefore, I prefer to make bills/recharges payments on Dadajan Pay. Make hay while the sun shines!  Accordingly on that day I paid for my mobile bill using the Dadajan Pay UPI. I was e...

Yearender With A.....Drag?

Three days back at around 8pm we finished our evening tea and were standing outside our office gate as my colleague was finishing his fag. I saw one elderly couple crossing the road from opposite to us. As they crossed they kept on looking at us. I thoutht they might ask us something. They crossed and passed us still looking at us and stopped at little distance away. From the back of my eye I saw them talking intensely. Then the husband came up and addressed my colleague, 'Hello, can I have a drag please?' 'What! A drink?' 'No, no. I want only a drag. I didn't take one since yesterday!' My bewildered friend offered him the remaining part, 'Ok. Have it all'. And we started moving towards the gate. With the wife watching the man took one drag and shouted behind us, 'Hello, I want only a drag. Please take it back!' We waved at him and went back to work laughing all the way. Can you analyze this true bizzarre incident?

Binding Terror

First the public anger pouring into the streets of Mumbai. This kind of anger was first seen in Guwahati after the Assam blasts on Octover 30, with crowds marching on to attack the capital complex. The anger enveloping the whole of India now. Cascading into political resignations, falls of ministries and so on. Politics attacked finally not only by the elites who never bothered even to vote earlier, but also by the masses. And today, the 11th of December, in the Indian Parliament all political parties joined together to fight terror. Let the fallout of terror last forever, not terror.