NEWSPAPER TIMES

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”.