It’s just any other day. You and your friends out of zeal to
excel in management entrance exams like CAT, MAT or other “sarkari naukri”
competitive exams like IAS,IES are engrossed in the day’s newspaper. Although some
of you might be getting delighted by the awesome photographs displayed in the “page
3” or in the case of Jaipurites the
revered( in our community) “Jaipur times” a.k.a “JT”, while some other might be
busy filling Sudoku, while some other might be still enjoying the Archie or
Garfield comic strips….but are content with the fact that “Hey atleast I am reading the newspaper”. I too switched
over to “The Hindu” lately, just to live up to the dream of getting into a
resepected B-school. But all in vain. To make my morning a “Good Morning”, I still
have to traverse to the neighbour’s room, just to have a look at the “JT”.
While this thing is on, you might have had this scene
brought up at least once. One of your friends will come across a numerical
figure followed by the dollar sign, and then “doing-calculation-in-the-air”
kind of expression will turn up on his face for a few second. For a while the
uno moto of his life becomes figuring out how much is that amount in rupees and
to get a feel of how big or how small is the amount indeed. Well, after few
minutes he’ll make a statement like “Microsoft’s total revenue is this much or
that much, I just converted it into rupees” and eventually one of you will interrupt
his mighty thought process then and there by saying “Oye the current conversion
rate is this much, I just checked it, you must have calculated assuming it to
be 50”. If there are many people around, then it's certain that a battle will initiate over the actual, decimal to decimal value of dollar till date, till a consensus is reached. And so , the “ghissu” goes over the “calculation-in-the-air” once
again.
Whatever might have induced the talk, but such talks
terminate with our own movie review segment. Such scenes never go without our
hurly burly talk over the latest movies and sensual heroines, and also which
movie to go for this weekend, and the most important part being which movie not
to go for.
Such are our “Newspaper Times”.
