Bhosadi Ke

No no no no no....

that is not an abuse. Delhi Belly has made this suddenly hip & popular now, but this is pretty old from since I was in school (DPS RK Puram, New Delhi, since you ask) or even before. Cryptically DK Bose has been around for a long time. For us, it helped that one of our friends was actually a D Bose. K was introduced by us in his name. It suited. It also helped understand the meaning. Now I am being mean.

anyway.. it is not an abuse.

As history goes, its supposedly originated from Gujrat. To understand the origination, break the word down..

BHO + SADI + KE

BHO - Earth - fertile earth
SADI - Rotten
KE - From

Combined - One who hails from infertile or rotten land.

Useless Trivia : In Pune there is an industrial area called Bhosadi, only they pronounce it as Bhosaadi ('aa' as in aadmi). I cant resist snickering everytime i tell the taxi driver to take me to Bhosadi. God people can wait to get out of Bhosadi and I am asking to be taken there. Bhaiya 'Bhosadi ke' liye rasta kahan se jaata hai ... ha ha ha ha ( Bro, bhosadi ke, how do i get there ?)

So the song is actually awesome, even if you remove Mr. DK Bose from it. Music is rocking, singer is awesome and the lyrics are stupendous.

Daddy bola to galti hai meri..
Zindagani tujhpe guilty hai meri...
Sabun ki shakal main beta tu to nikla keval jhaaaag....
Jhaag.. Jhaag Jhaaag -- BHHAAAAG !

In the shape of a soap you turned out to be only foam.

Bhag DK Bose Bhaag

DK Bose will run.

He will run in Leh at the La Ultra - The High the 222 km run at crazy heights making it one of the toughest runs in the world ! see the website : www.thehigh.in

To quote directly from the website :

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Its an ultra marathon in Foothills of Himalayas, with a total distance of 222 km (137.64 miles).

The High course crosses the highest motor-able pass (controversially*) in the world, i.e. Khardung La (17,700 ft, recorded by National Geographic to be at 18,380 ft) down to Leh an then up again to Tanglang La (17,583 ft), finishing at Morey Plains.
*We aren’t bothered about the record or the claim. Khardung La is HIGH enough for us.

Highest point: Khardung La at 17,700 ft (5395 m)

Cumulative vertical ascent: 10,193 ft (3,107 m)

Cumulative vertical descent: 8,873 ft (2,704 m)

At 14,765 ft (4,500 m), The High’s average altitude, the partial pressure of oxygen is 40% less than at sea level
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So what does one do when faced with this ardous task... Run (so the famous Raramuri would say) :

The Gurgaon XC cross country trail run

Running & Living Gurgaon XC trail run happened on 29th May 2011 on Sunday. And man .... it was AWESOME !

Why ?

1. An excellent, tough trail



2. Excellent running camaraderie



3. Off-roader jeeps - had me salivating enough to start thinking of buying one




4. Flying RC chopper camera





5. Param finishing the run in fortyfuckingfive minutes (I took 70 minutes)



6. Ankur casually strolling in after running from IIT gate to the XC location (just a measly 40 kms !!)



7. Finishing the run and stopping for a hydration drink - a beer before 9 AM !

8. Mango shake & fruits at Param's place (the hospitality & the company)

After the run, Param got stuck with a few of us who trailed him to his home and got themselves invited for some fruits & mango shakes. I got to ride with Ankur. While I kept on telling him he was crazy and he kept shaking his head (in the negative). He said its all relative. For some I am crazy. I woke up at 3.15 and rove an hours across to a different state just to run 10k in the country. For me Param / Ankur were crazy. Param because he ran and aced the 10k with a back ache, Ankur because he ran 40k interstate, alone. Ankur then said for him the guys running the 75k, the 100k and the 222 k that too in leh (www.thehigh.in - organised by Dr. Rajat Chauhan) are crazy. Hmmmm... thats like saying i am not crazy. UNACCEPTABLE.

I have to start running regularly increasing my distance so that I can go next level of crazy and not be near the sane level of crazy, which is lame. That makes sense, doesn't it ?

Adele - rolling in the deep - we could have had it all

A fantastic song thad had me humming and hanging in my brain like a ghost high on ectoplasm.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and the lyrics or the poetry is rich with it/

Here is the song with the lyrics :

BUGS

I have been into bugging for a few months now, ever since my kabini trip (near Mysore at the Fork of kabini river) where we went on a nightly bug watch trail. It has made me more observant of the plants, ever on the lookout for the bugs, over under around the leaves, flowers bushes etc. And I fount that my small patch of garden outside the office has such a huge variety.

Some sample shots below :

THE EVIL DOCTOR

Over a pot of Darjeeling silver tips brewed a discussion of Evolution with good friend Drs. Shantanu & Sonali. Though in no way an equal discussion, them being trained and educated on the stuff, I was able to throw in some nice big words bluffing my way into making them talk and seemingly discuss evolution (it was more of a lecture).

But what came out was my understanding that this discussion was actually outstanding. I am quite surprised (or probably not well read) that this topic is NOT highly debated.

To keep it simple, our fore fathers (fore-mothers for the feminist) did not have many of the diseases we are facing now. That was because of a lack of medical science. If there was a diseased person, (s)he could not be cured, therefore (s)he died. That means the weakness died leaving the rest still physically strong.

Now that weakness is "cured". allowing the diseased genes to be preserved and passed on and also spread. The more cures are found the weaker we get. The adage of "survival of the fittest" is no longer true. The weaker are not only allowed but are helped to flourish. SO the gene pool instead of becoming stringer, due to evolution, is becoming weaker. Which is why man has taken onto himself to improve on nature as nature is no longer allowed to improve on itself !

Discovering genes and their effects and then manipulating them is no longer the stuff of fiction but a stark reality of our weakness.

Now my wife asked me, on hearing this surmise, will you forgo cure were you or your loved one be in need of one -- for the general good ? I do not have an answer. I am not great enough to take one for the civilization but being a human also means to be on the lookout for me, is that also not a survival instinct ? It is.

But the puzzle now is that in search of survival, the human kind is getting weaker diluting the genepool and making more weaker humans than stronger. If that is so, then it is not the survial of the fittest but SURVIVAL OF THE SCARED-EST. The more I am scared of being eliminated the more I work toward preserving myself, the more I work towards preserving myself, the more I have to lean towards medical science to preserve me which brings us back to Doctors.

So I am no longer able to make it black or white - Are the doctors good or evil ? I am inlined to lean both ways and will fall flat on my face right down the centre.

Coffee - my way

Coffee makes me happy. And I want it done correct... so I teach people , painstakingly, to do it, exactly the way I want it.

copyright - shannon wheeler