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Unlike of last year summer of delhi this year is quite hot. So I went up himalayas last weekend. It was a nice trip. We went to rishikesh. Vsited the neelkanth temple. Stayed at laxmanjhula in night and we did rafting next day in shivpuri with a group of english tourists.

I never took the guides seriously. till in one of the rapid near brahmpuri i was the first to go in water and our boat was at 75 degrees in the river. Atleast thats what rest of the peoples said since i was at the front corner and i never knew how it happened.

next night we stayed in mussorie. Weather was like delhi monsoons.

We went up from mussorie to dhanaulti which have a vegitation and views like kashmir.

The return trip was more eventful with heavy rains in mussorie and wind storms near dehradun.

I haven’t seen the original K.L sehgal starrer and saw partly the dilip kumar starrer devdas which was again black and white. The bhansali directed adaptation was so colourful that only the colour blind people could understand what actually is happening in the movie.But after seeing the anurag kashyap version of the batli boy who is not shy to take a little coke.Has his pockets full with worthy smack and can swallow bhang ki goli after a full evening of doing nothing but boozing around.

Anurag kashyap failed in his previous attempt in No smoking even the Vishal bhardwaj composed music was at its best it wasn’t marketed well and may be because of the Lead star John abraham wasn’t upto the talent required for doing such a role. But abhay deol is too good playing a selfish slut who learned his lesson at last and choose to move on instead of giving a sad climax which was anticipated by seeing its movie promos.

The night life of cosmopoliton delhi is original. Paharganj is portraited truly as a haven of hippies and prostitutes. The graffiti on the walls is much better then glittering glasses in the previous devdas flick but the best thing in the movie is the music by amit trivedi. The movie with 18 songs and none of them is out of context. This movie is worth of watching in a cinema hall but will not be a nice watch with family.

I never invested in all those gleaming stocks when the stock markets were booming and also cautioned near and dear ones who were seeing good prospects in shares . Whole of the 2007 and in early 2008 i stayed away from media all of which was nostalgic about the ever increasing number on the Bombay stock exchange. I was one of the only old fashioned indian guy who don’t want to talk stocks when everyone around me was buying or selling something. But in the early 2008 the talk about looming economic downturn , market rationality and overpriced stocks were everywhere. many of my friends lost money this year. The stoks fall below breaking previous records way back in year 2000 the same shockers were given to peoples who have spend more time watching cnbc then their actual field of work. 

I knew someone personally who have made a business of dealing electronically with the share brokers with their leased line connections and sharing this opportunity with every one who had to satisfy his greed for easy money in the country where gambling is illegal and in the era when home internet was just few bytes here and there and the internet banking was non prevalent. the guy broke when the stocks fell to bottom. 

The US economic depression of 1930’s were much wider in scale and it have happened at the time when the us goverments involvement in money matter was non-existent. With the increasing unemployment the social bonds were broken government banned sale of alcohols, people lost their property and a culture of hoovervilles started. That was the time when al capone made fortune much have changed after that. The federal government increased their invovement in money and banking the communist world begin to anticipate the fall of capitalism. But capitalism prevailed greed prevailed and america rose to become worlds dominant economy.

The things that are good in a economic downturn.

• less noise on all those regular indian weddings.
• less drunkards on road.
• more free time.
• less shopping.
• more play.
• nothing to watch for in stock markets.

This wednesday I went to ferozshah kotla to watch IPL series match between delhi daredevils and bangalore roya challengers  with all the other slideshare guys. the ticket we bought was at Rs 500  each and we reached their early evening.  we used ramlila maidan parking which is around a k.m from the stadium. There was a frequent bus service from parking to the stadium

match started at arround 8:30 pm before that akshay kumar who was representer of delhi’s team and katrina kaif who represented bangalore were there and also was kailasha kher.  There were no skimply dressed cheerleaders instead royal challengers cheerleaders came in their normal attire and they cheered for both the team since the delhi based GMR is yet to hire one . They, however, presented their flavor of the season - a Bhangra dance troupe.