Electricity, rain, and all that

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 6/16/2013 9:59:00 AM

'So here I am, sitting peacefully on a Sunday afternoon, bothering no one, idly flipping television channels on my way to glory. With Housefull 2, Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Mohabbatein playing on different channels, I was almost leaping with excitement at having to hook on to till the Champions Trophy match got underway.But then, it started raining. Throughout the history of mankind, from the days of yore, even before AK Hangal was born, rain has always been synonymous to coffee.A st(...)'

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Victim

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 6/13/2013 12:07:00 PM

'This story requires a long, convoluted disclaimer.This was written for IBL (Indian Bloggers League). Yes, such a thing exists. I represent Coup d'East, which is, as you might have guessed by now, the East Zone side. This is organised by Write-Up Cafe involved somewhere in all this. My team captain prefers to refer to it as WUC - an acronym that I always seem to forget.It was supposed to be a short story, and the upper-limit for the number of words was supposed to be 1,500. I wr(...)'

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Random things I dislike

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 6/7/2013 12:31:00 PM

'Disclaimer:This post has not been inspired by this blog, though I love every post on the blog that I can relate to.Like all mortals, I too have my own dislikes (which may seriously hamper my ambition of being an immortal); the problem is, there are a few items on my list that most people find perfectly normal. I mean, everyone dislikes Videocon television sets, cars that say "this car is backing up" when they go backwards, insurance agents, peanut butter, the voice that sa(...)'

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সব চরিত্র কাল্পনিক

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 6/4/2013 9:03:00 PM

'সবাই ঋতুপর্ণকে নিয়ে দিব্যি লিখে চলেছে, আমি বাদে। যা যা লেখার সব লেখা হয়ে গেছে, সমস্ত সিনেমা নিয়ে, গান নিয়ে, চিত্রনাট্য নিয়ে, 'হীরের আংটি' থেকে শুরু করে 'চোখের বালি', রবীন্দ্রসঙ্গীতের ব্যবহার থেকে প্রসেনজিতের আশ্চর্য বিবর্তন, নব্বইয়ের দশকের মুখ থুবড়ে পড়া বাংলা সিনেমাকে স্যালাইন-ট্যালাইন দিয়ে একটা একটা মোটামুটি ভদ্রস্থ জায়গায় নিয়ে আসা, কিরণ খেরের ডাব্‌ড্‌ গলা এবং তাকে ঘিরে জাতীয় পুরস্কার নিয়ে বিতর্ক - সবই হয়ে গেছে।অমিতাভ-জয়া-অভিষেক-ঐশ্বর্য চারজনকেই পরিচালনা ক(...)'

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We won!

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/31/2013 6:18:00 PM

'We won, guys. I wrote 110 words, you voted for me, and we won. I really don't know Latin, otherwise I may have said something that would have said something on the lines of veni, vidi, vici. Thank you, everyone, who have contributed to this.Hope this is not the last time for us. Thank you, once again. You're one of the three reasons that keep me going - other than my passion for writing and, of course, Fardeen Khan.Attached is a screenshot you may like. The trophy is on the cab(...)'

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A naval tale

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/31/2013 11:58:00 AM

'Finally I've started living up to my competitive and combative nature. Here is another entry to a contest where I need to conjure up something on the following topic:After World War III, the female survivors decide that, as men caused the war and did most of the fighting, it is simply too dangerous to allow them to be in control of the governments any longer. Men are banned from government and military service and, after a few years, banned from voting, having an education or having(...)'

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ফোর্কলোর

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/29/2013 8:54:00 AM

'অনির্বাণ আমার বন্ধু। অনির্বাণের সঙ্গে যখন আমার দ্বিতীয়বার দেখা হয় তখন সময়টা ছিল বড় অদ্ভুত। গুরুগ্রামের সেক্টর ওয়ানের সামনে গাড়িসমেত দাঁড়িয়ে ছিল অনির্বাণ, আমার অপেক্ষায়। হরিয়ানার রৌদ্রদগ্ধ দুপুর, সুনীল আকাশ লেলিহান ধূসর ধোঁয়ায় ঢেকে দেওয়া দুর্নিবার সবুজ অটোর পাল, পিচঢালা রাস্তায় নাগরিক সভ্যতাকে বুড়ো আঙুল দেখিয়ে গর্বিত ষাঁড়ের স্পর্ধিত পাদচারণা।পেটপুরে খাওয়ার পর অনির্বাণ আমাকে জিজ্ঞেস করল, "তুমি বাঙালি খাবার খেতে চাও?" অনির্বাণ দেখতে নিরীহ হলে কি হবে, গুরুগ্রামের তামাম(...)'

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Vote for me!

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/28/2013 9:23:00 AM

'Okay, this is my effort at a shameless, blatant promotion. You all remember this post, right?The catch is, the winner of the contest will be decided by, er, votes. Votes. Votes. I repeat - votes.You, a part of the group forming most beautiful, glamorous, attractive, wise, intelligent, successful, talented intellectuals in history, clad in perfectly ironed and starched clothes ever, please go here and vote for, well, me.(I guess I should blush here and turn the colour of a cherr(...)'

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The license

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/26/2013 6:34:00 PM

'The brothers could not believe their years. Yudhishthir had agreed to play Shakuni again. This time the stake was different: whoever lost had to spend thirteen years in exile.The two men sat facing each other, their eyes transfixed on the cross-shaped playing board. Each man cast his own dice. The audience waited with bated breath.The unthinkable had happened! Yudhishtir had won!The crowd was so taken aback that they even forgot to react.Shakuni looked furious. He swore, and shouted(...)'

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Towel Day and Cricket

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/25/2013 12:45:00 PM

'Cross-posted on CricketCountry (with edits).***Douglas Adams was seriously tall. I mean, he wasn’t really as tall as Mohammad Irfan, hence his height remains his second-most talked about feature. However, it should not be forgotten that he was 6’ tall at the age of twelve, and the astonishing vertical growth stopped only after he reached 6’5”. He was so tall that his form-master apparently asked everyone to ‘meet under Adams’ instead of the mundane ‘meet under the War Memorial’ or ‘(...)'

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Coffee: TTTT

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/21/2013 7:28:00 AM

'These is a part of a contest held by Terribly Tiny Tales. The rules said:The stories have to contain the word coffee.The stories cannot exceed 140 characters each.There can be at most three stories per person.The last date was the 20th of May, 2013 AD.My Three Terribly Tiny Tales, then, were:Story 1He held her head down inside the tank full of milk. She struggled, but her body grew stiff soon."I told you I wanted my coffee black."***Story 2The war was over. The victorious army (...)'

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Take that, BCCI!

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/16/2013 5:34:00 PM

'This article has also been published here on CricketCountry. I do not typically cross-post, but this somehow had to be posted.***Remember, BCCI?The day when you thought that the IPL was a big thing? That auctioning players like cattle was a neat idea?The day when that ostentatious opening ceremony at Bangalore took place, five years back, followed by Brendon McCullum's carnage?You told everyone that IPL was "the greatest show on earth", or something on those lines, remember?You thou(...)'

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Where have you been hiding, Karan Johar?

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/7/2013 6:11:00 PM

'Disclaimer 1: This is not a review.Disclaimer 2: This articles contains spoilers.More prominent version of Disclaimer 2:*** THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS ****** IT MAY NOT BE A GOOD IDEA TO READ THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED BOMBAY TALKIES AND INTEND TO WATCH IT ***Bombay Talkies was a nice experience overall. It was the perfect homage to Bollywood (not Indian cinema) in the most unexpected possible manner. All four directors - and the item-song - pay tribute to Bolly(...)'

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Ghitorni and Karan Johar

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 5/2/2013 6:00:00 PM

'So Delhi it is.For many people, Delhi is an excellent place to live as long as you're equipped with the basics of life, like multiple firearms, huge stacks of banknotes, large cars, political power, corruption, and, well, that organ of the body whose enlargement procedures often turn up in the form of raunchy pictures on illegal movie download pages. Also, chauvinism is optional, but it does make you feel like a proper Delhi-ite.Having said all that, the average Delhi-ite isn't real(...)'

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Women, Five

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 4/15/2013 7:28:00 AM

'This is a post on women, which, by definition, makes this a serious post. In my opinion, all blog posts published on Women's Day are supposed to be based on women. Yes, I know that this is not Women's Day, but that's hardly relevant.The objective is to choose The Five Famous Women in my life. Ideally, I would have called them The Famous Five Women, but had I done that, Mary Pollock may have cringed in her grave.Disclaimer:Let me make this clear first: these are not women I know pers(...)'

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A Journey in Photographs - IV

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 4/3/2013 4:48:00 PM

'Being in a somewhat sour mood, mostly due to the recent occurrences in the city, I finally decided to vent it where I have always done - here. And since my brain is too tired to create anything decent, I finally decided to do the next sequel of this series.Remember, most of these pictures were taken using my faithful Nokia E63, so please do not complain about the picture quality.Do bear with me through this installment. An apology (in advance) to the non-Bengali readers, since some (...)'

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Ritanjan's tale

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 3/27/2013 2:02:00 PM

'This is a true story.This is as true as the greatest story ever untold - the one that resides peacefully in Manmohan Singh's heart.This is a story about Ritanjan. It also involves a lot of animals, but we will come to that later.Ritanjan is a PhD in Development Studies (don't ask!) from the London School of Economics, which probably means that his level of enlightenment is on a different plane than mine. It also almost certainly means that he lives in England, which he does.However,(...)'

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The Story of David

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 3/8/2013 3:58:00 PM

'Long, long ago, somewhere in the magical land of Baghdad, there lived a Jewish family. The family lived peacefully in the city that had one basked in the glory of Haroun-al-Rashid, and was later torn apart by a group of people who somehow valued petroleum a tad more than people are supposed to.Anyway, this is not a story about Baghdad. This is a story about the family, rich and ripe in heritage. One day, the Man of the family, Israel Mordecai, decided to leave the sun-baked roads an(...)'

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The error

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 2/11/2013 5:52:00 PM

'It was one of those rainy afternoons when the whiteness blinds your vision. Being one of those hapless individuals who did not understand heavyweight phrases like 'paradigm shift', he did not really feel like working on a stormy afternoon.He kept on checking out the time at the bottom right of his Dell Latitude. It was still half an hour before he could leave work. He stood up from the chair, visibly impatient, as he paced up and down the corridor next to the window, keeping an eye (...)'

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It's February again

Author : Abhishek Mukherjee      Blog : Abhishek's blog অভিষেকের ব্লগ      Date : 2/7/2013 8:08:00 PM

'Once again it's February all over again. The unusually chilly January of this year is wearing off bit by bit; if you take a walk in the sun for fifteen minutes or so, you feel that itchy, prickly feeling that usually defines the cut-off between dry skin and the first droplet of sweat. And yet, the temperature drops at night - drops sufficiently to keep the quilts away from being packed in suitcases with strategically mothballs: the occasional sweater is still there; and so is the bo(...)'

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