Quo Vadis?

It is finally over. We are neither buying a DTH system or a set top box at home. The dilemma was haunting dad and me for a while now. Both these systems had their own sets of pros and cons going for them however in the end the need for them has evaporated into thin air. The day is 26th of March 2007 and all those who had woken upto the shocking for some, expected for many news that the “men in blue” have crashed out of the World Cup 2007 in the first round. Carrying the hopes of a billion might be stretching it toooooooooooooooo far but it was inspired copyrighting of some bright spark handling the Pepsi ad account. But these men did have the hopes and aspirations of many at least a few millions. Starved of quality sporting achievements except a few like Vishwanathan Anand the current Numero Uno of the chess world and the over hyped Sania Mirza we have very few to actually delight in. The new stars in the horizon from the golfing and other less glamorous sports are slowly making their ...

This is the final post of a three part series about my wedding and the days that followed. Since the wedding and the reception took up too much space, I’m just going to give a timeline of events as they happened since the wedding. v Jan 23rd – My brother Daniel Dilip Williams got engaged to Shobitha Marina Roche. v Jan 24th – “Thali changing ceremony” at Div’s place (to the ignoramus among you, this is an event where the thali made of thread is changed to a gold chain, don’t ask me why, I just watched with lot of amusement at the tamsha that happened that day) v Jan 27th – My darling sis (inlaw) got her degree at her convocation v Jan 28th – My best pal from KG, Prasanna got married (we joined KG together and got married same week!!!!) v Jan 29th – My pal LLB from my MBA class got himself engaged v Jan 30th - We flew to Delhi by the Air Deccan morning flight to kick offthe honeymoon The day was spent wandering around Delhi spending time at Rajpath, Rashtrapathi...

The Reception The reception was to have commenced at 6.30 we made it to the hall by 6.45. We walked into the hall (hand in hand) but surprisingly there was no reception committee to meet us! Both sets of parents were frantically running about with a major crisis on hand. The caterer who was to have reached by 5.30 PM was nowhere in sight and phone calls to him revealed that he was stuck in traffic on the way. Now anybody who has been in marketing or knows somebody in marketing will know that “stuck in traffic on the way” is an euphemism for “yet to start from point of origin”. So anyway while the parents of Divia were frantically trying to call the caterer and try all means of cajoling and threats to somehow speed up his arrival my folks had their hand full with restraining the impatient crowd who simply could not wait to eat and scoot!!! I ask you why do people get so hungry at a wedding when it is only 7 PM? So anyway thoroughly orphaned (momentarily that is) we went to the dais whe...