Sunday 10 June 2012

The Brown Dot In A Brown Square



Shadman - 'Ranjan,how about biryani for dinner today?'
Me - 'Sure, I am in unless it burns a hole in my pocket'
Shadman - 'how much will you eat?'
Me - 'I can do a full plate(half plate is so not me), didn't have lunch.'
Shadman - 'Dude,tell me in Kilos!'  

The rest as they say is history.If you can't guess how much a kilo is ,the picture below will help your imagination and about the fingers in there you will get an explanation:
1Kg Biryani(not from Al-nawaz)


           There has been times I have carried 13-14 Kg's sitting at the back of a scooty(thanks to Nirupam).At start it was just Shadman and me with the obvious inclusion of Adarsh (as soon as he found out) and now even Honey Patodi(claims to be a green dot) orders a kilo for himself !!But as you know honey is honey,he once ate almost a full plate of boneless butter chicken at JNU canteen(24x7) and then when he realized it was not panner he went on to argue and got a free half plate of paneer.This JNU incident reminds me of the lemon chicken,yummy!!
         Just to be clear there is nothing called veg-biryani.Its the same way alcohol consuming junta feel about mock-tails or the way smokers feel about methnol/ultra mild smokes.Call it pulao/fried rice or whatever else that comes to your mind.

          The Burra,the roasted and the fried (again sold in terms of weight) made our visits to Al-nawaz(Okhla) or their sister shops in Munirka more frequent which brings me to the downside of it.The mother of all brown dots Karim's has to take a back seat which is not a good thing.A single visit to this place with the right knowledge as to what to order can just make you go high on food.No one better than Shaurya can advocate that Karim is all about the delicious curries - peshawari, mughlai and jahagiri being the best of them all and of course the best part is their tandoori roti, its just magical. Even hypocrite veggie Tiwari digs those curries.

So our manasa-haari group follows a CoD(code of conduct) which is as follows:

  • If Mr.X is a veggie and wants to join the dark side of the force,as a good will gesture his first non-veg meal expenses would be taken care of.Mr.X if you are reading this and your mentor is denying this privilege.kindly let us know.That mentor will be thrown out of the death star asap.
  • The total expenditure of any eat-together will be divided equally among all the Storm-troopers irrespective of what and how much he eats.So if Mr.A is a veggie and he accompanies the dark side for a dine-out he will have to pay what every other Storm-trooper does no matter what cheap green stuff he stuffs.The better option would be follow Mr.X's path and join the dark side. 
  • No spoon feeding literally!!  To get maximum satisfaction spoons should be avoided at all times especially in case of biryani.(that explains the messy fingers in the picture above)
  • Shorts or loose fitting pants are the preferred dress codes. 
If the above CoD did not make much sense to you then you should watch the six Star Wars movie back to back in this order - 4th,5th,6th,1st,2nd and at last 3rd even though it would make more sense to watch it as 123456 but then you wont be able to appreciate the fact that the 70's people were able to make  a better movie(especially in terms of the technology) despite having less advanced technology than their counterparts in the 90's.

Its not that I hate light side(read shaka-haari),every dark side member was once on that side and some part of him will always be.You will get to know more about it from the next post and you can win a potato if you guessed the correct title of the coming post.

Until the next post my friends, here is something to make you feel good about the dark side
"The Dark Side of the Force is the pathway to many abilities some consider to be Unnatural "-Senator Palpatine (Episode III : Revenge of the Sith)