Langoti Vs Underwear

In the series of A vs B posting this is one more addition. Thought, I should let out all the crazy thoughts I have inside me before I reach a stage in life where I am no more interested in posting them.

Me and my colleague from Indore were chit chatting about effects of IT industry on our lifestyle and how it has changed the face of consumerism in Indian cities. The earning capacity of people has increased substantially compared to what it was few years ago. IT Industry is bringing a lot of revenue to India through exports, but at the same time a lot of foreign brands are invading tier-1 and tier-2 cities. People now are getting taste of pizza and burger. McD’s and subway can be easily found now.

Though the spending capacity has increased people aren’t saving much, reason being they have lot more options to spend the money on. And also the cost of living has risen enormously. So at the end of the day, no matter how much you earn, you are spending a lot more and saving less. People don’t mind to paying more for comfort and quality.

At this point of chit-chat my friend asked me if my lifestyle has improved. And if it has improved give me an example. I told him ‘I don’t know if my lifestyle has improved, but I know for sure my spending ability has increased. Previously I used to wear Indian made local brand of Underwear but now I am wearing foreign brand’J. Now our thoughts were diverted more towards Underwear.

Indian men have always worn loincloth or Langoti (langot). There was no concept of underwear until some western guy introduced it. Langoti suits more for us than underwear. Reason being better ventilation, it suits more for Indian hot humid dry weather. Underwear is more suitable in cold countries. The western trend brought us Underwear and along with it brought itching as well. And for itching it brought suitable ointments to apply. All made by western. A humble Langoti with better ventilation couldn’t face the itching underwear. Why only underwear, it’s the same story with bra. And Go commando is nothing new for Indian women in villages :P

UK is like a big Fridge!

Yes, UK is like a big fridge, temperatures are a bit cold at the bottom(i.e., London), thats the warmest part of fridge. And its freezing cold at the top, thats Scotland.

Virtually you will never see the Sun here. Winter is worse, and in Summer it rains, and this summer it even snowed in Scotland. A green Christmas and white Easter is only possible in UK :P.

In the recent movie, 'A Single Man', there a dialogue "I am English, we like to be cold and wet", perfect!.

I wondered whether it was courage/bravey in Brits that led to sail around the world and conquer it, or were they just fed up, frustrated with the weather here and desperately wanted to get out of this country to get some good sun ;).

Anyway, recently on occasion of Ugadi, my mom asked me to look for the moon on that auspicious day, I laughed and said, its difficult to see Sun here forget moon.

Gravity vs Newton vs Apple vs Sh*t

As a kid I was so amazed at the story of apple and Newton. Newton one day saw an apple fall from a tree and it inspired him to come up with theory of gravity.

But then there was also a bit of scientist (mom terms that as brat :P) in me when I was a kid, I too always wondered why **** always falls down while sh*tting. Why doesn't it fly here and there! yuck! gross!

Now I am wondering why it took an apple for Newton to come up with Theory of Gravity, didn't he realise it daily while sh*tting?!!!