Never underestimate Indian creativity
Suppose you had a nice care and lived in a not so nice neighborhood and had to go out of the country for a few weeks. Do you pay the airport to watch it? Do you lend it to a relative whose neighborhood is not much better or…One family in India came up with an extraordinary answer: put it on the roof of your house. A first video below shows a Mahindra Scorpio Classic being lifted by a crane and placed on top of a two-story house in Bihar has gone viral, eventually catching the attention of the chairman of the company that made the vehicle. According to Indian media reports, the vehicle belongs to Manoj Yadav, who works in Israel and had recently purchased the Scorpio Classic. With Yadav overseas and reportedly no one available to drive the vehicle, his family faced the question of where to keep it. Their solution was considerably more elaborate than finding another parking space. They hired a crane.
Reports said concerns about keeping the new vehicle safe while Yadav was away were behind the decision. Earlier reports accompanying the viral footage contained limited independently verified information about the owner and location. The video eventually reached Mahindra, whose company manufactures the Scorpio. He joked that he had always believed the Scorpio could go almost anywhere, but said the family appeared to have taken that reputation particularly seriously. He gave them “full marks” for their ingenuity and affection for the vehicle. The company ended their post with “Please don’t try this at (your) home!”
Bad mobile signal for two years?
How angry can a village get about bad mobile reception? In one Indian village, residents were apparently angry enough to tie the system up. Residents of Hardauli village in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly detained the technician after becoming frustrated over persistent problems with mobile calls and internet access. The unusual protest was captured on the second video below and has since spread online. Residents said a mobile tower had been installed in the area about two years earlier but claimed connectivity problems continued despite repeated complaints. When a telecom worker arrived at the site on Thursday, some villagers allegedly detained him and tied him to a structure at the tower compound.
Local reports say police subsequently arrived and freed the worker. Some reports have claimed the technician himself suggested the unusual protest to draw his company’s attention to the village’s connectivity problems. That claim has not been established, and the earlier local reports describe villagers detaining the worker. For a community increasingly dependent on mobile connectivity for everything from communication to digital payments, frustration had been building for some time. This time, the signal problem got someone’s attention.
Smile please
For centuries, Hindu women have worn a red spot on their foreheads. We have naïvely thought it had something to do with their religion. The true story has just been revealed by the Indian Embassy in Washington DC. When one of these women gets married, on her wedding night, the husband scratches off the red spot to see if he has won: a convenience store, a gas station or a motel in Florida.
India- A country where you can get married, before you can buy booze.
The Interviewer asked, “Make a sentence using the words Yellow, Pink and Green.” Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said, “Mister Manager, I am ready.”
The Manager said, “Go ahead.” Mujibar said,
“The telephone goes green, green, green, and I pink it up, and say, ‘Yellow, this is Mujibar.'”
You see Mujibar now works as a technician at a call center for computer problems. No doubt you have spoken to him.
Q: What do you call an Indian dating site?
A: Connect the dots.
September 15th Birthdays
1989 – Chelsea Kane, 1890 – Agatha Christie, 1986 – Heidi Montag, 1988 – Chelsea Staub
1952 – Pete Carroll, 1946 – Oliver Stone, 1978 – Tom Hardy, 1946 – Tommy Lee Jones