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Tales From the Locker Room

It’s Subhash Ghai’s greatest fear. Sanjay Leela Bhansali immediately says that he’s incapable of doing it. Ram Gopal Varma goes underground when threatened by it.

What are they talking about? Don’t worry, it’s not a date with Rakhi Sawant or worse still, with Rahul Mahajan, or worse than that, a date with both of them together....
In fact, it’s far worse. I’m talking about organising a kid’s birthday party. In this case, it’s my kid. Well, my wife’s kid.I mean, you know the old Ukranian saying, which says you can always be certain about the mother...

Today the bar has been set extremely high. In these days of great recession, the birthday party is the primary unit from which entire civilisations are built. The basic mode, on which a fully functioning society is brandished, remains unaffected. As businesses, financial empires, even countries collapse, the birthday party is the one testament to man’s courage under pressure.

Devastated as we may be by plunging index, inflated fuel price, mass layoffs and Himesh’s Monty act from Karzzz (give or take a few Zs). However, the birthday party stands alone as the one strong symbol of man and humanity’s great availability under unimaginable stress.

Football fields continue to be hired for the purpose for which they were first designed to be a venue for kids’ birthday parties. As banker and stock breaker, search for suitable windows to jump out of, food and beverages have never been as plentiful as in the kiddy birthday party.

Perhaps a salient saving grace our society from this financial whirlpool would be to combine the financial districts with the kiddy birthday party. If we move the kiddy parties to the banking area and the stock market, maybe this powerful symbol will ressurect the markets as well.

So, have your party at the stock exchange, however your birthday ‘card will probably have a whole new meaning and instead of ‘pin the donkey’, we’ll play ‘pin the bear’ and ‘chase the bull’.