More than a decade ago, my wife and I visited Switzerland for our honeymoon. On the way back after visiting a Cheese factory, we made a mistake and took the train that was heading in the opposite direction to our destination.
The train was completely empty except one lady sitting in a corner. We were confused about what to do next. She didn't speak English but figured that we were in a spot of bother and immediately pressed a button that ensured that the train stops at the next station, which was a small station in the middle of the countryside of Switzerland. She gestured that we could walk our way back from there to the previous station.
Our walk back was through a small hill in the countryside. Everyrhing was lush green with houses like these along the way. It began to drizzle while we were walking back and we had to wait near one of the houses for the passing shower.
It was a 25-30 minute walk and we eventually returned to our original train station but I still remember almost everything throughout that walk like it was yesterday.
It may sound a bit clichéd but Switzerland truly is like heaven on earth.
If the Diwali week is a weekend, Dhanteras is Friday evening, Diwali is Saturday evening, New Year day is Sunday morning, Bhai Dooj is Sunday evening and the morning after Bhai Dooj is the dreaded Monday morning.
From honey trapping Jensen Huang whose American company has a $4.5 trillion market cap to sending influencers to film dirty parts of Bangladesh and show them as parts of India, if China considers you as their enemy, it unleashes the entire range upon you - from spy ops to psyops.
A member of a housing society issued a message (in a tone of a diktat) asking residents not to burst firecrackers in the building compound.
Yesterday, that particular housing society compound saw a lot more firecrackers burst than it has in the past few years.
There's a lesson in there for our politicians and courts.
Adulting is a process of realizing just how much time and effort parents spend in order to ensure that the festive experience for their kids is bright, colorful and happy.
The mind goes into festive mode for a week from the morning of Dhanteras. Any work that needs to be done in this week requires 10x the effort than it would otherwise.
Every time the stock market corrects, there are info graphics all over social media stating how many thousands or lakhs of crores worth of investors' wealth is wiped out but whenever the market rallies upwards the same commentators say absolutely nothing. 🤔
USA won't impose additional tariffs on India for buying Russian oil. Iran is exempting India from restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz.
If India was a person, she would surely be a Libran because nothing else explains how we manage to balance our foreign relations.
#BREAKING | Iran exempts India, China, Iraq and Qatar from transit restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz
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