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ShareBarack Obama became the US President by stressing on one word - change!
Ironically, it's also an important word in the vocabulary of women. I mean, what do women really want?
Well, they want change for Rs 500. It's probably why they usually take out the biggest currency note in their purse for the smallest purchase.
It's why they can be seen nonchalantly brandishing a 500-rupee note at a hapless auto-rickshaw driver after a minimum fare ride or the neighbourhood vegetable vendor after buying a rupee worth of dhaniya-kothmir.
Not surprisingly, their persistence and patience is often rewarded, which explains why you'll find currency of all denominations in the purse of a woman.
In fact, they often come to the rescue of their impatient husbands who lack foresight and promptly get rid of all the change in their wallet or pockets at the first given opportunity.
It's a small indication that women are smarter than men and they are better at handling money. I strongly feel they just might do a better job of managing Air India, which is not only delaying salaries of its staff due to a cash crunch but even considering money-making options on its flights by charging passengers for using the toilets and the possibility of allowing standees aboard flights on their busiest routes.
Even our women's cricket team has done better than the men, considering they at least managed to reach the semi-finals of the Women's World Twenty20.
The buzz in cricket circles is that Dhoni and his boys have requested the BCCI to introduce underarm bowling in the next World Cup, citing the inability of our batsmen to play bouncers and spin.
Ironically, their bravura performance in the IPL is now being compared to last week's bumbling operation that took 500 UP policemen 50 hours to tackle a lone dacoit armed with just a rifle. Looks like our boys, whether in cricket or in law and order, is a formidable force only on paper.
Finally, the most dreaded word in Bollywood these days is not bhai anymore! It's bai! Even as some men are coming to terms with the fact that it just might not be a good idea to force the maid who makes your bed to also share it with you, there are others who are worried about the pros and cons of consensual sex, considering the cons are far too many and it's far from sensual.
