As @airindiain comes home to family @TataCompanies I was reminded of this brilliant advertising booklet that the airline used to give out to passengers when the world was normal, people could laugh at themselves & unlike today not take offence & outrage at the slightest imagined
insult or slight. Today these 2 booklets would have led to riots inside parliament & someone like even #JRDTata termed as anti-national, being asked to leave the country, heads would have rolled. But back then we were humans with the ability to laugh at the incongruous not idiots
I share the entire booklets in 2 series. This was called #FoolishlyYours & genius admen/ marketers like #BobbyKooka conceived this. The woke leftlib secular idiots would outrage at the plethora of racism while the equally idiotic right would do so on the insult to nationalism.
I found 2 of these booklets at a scarp book mart & proudly own them. I hear that there was a third book which I havent been able to locate anywhere but hopefully someone in #AirIndia or @RNTata2000 would have that.
Hopefully everybody who reads this on here will 🤣🤣🤣🤣& not start jumping on me for sharing a glimpse from the past to show how the world has changed. One person I am hoping will guffaw at this is @Suhelseth given his irrepressible sense of humor & irreverence.
The other booklet is called "This makes no sense" & while there were many similarities between the two I had a hard time controlling my uncontrollable laughter. Just imagine the mascot of @airindiain the #Maharaja as a donkey's ass !!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
These 2 booklets & the way they lampoon everyone of us has a HUGE lesson for @TanishqJewelry a part of the @TataCompanies on how to use humor without being offending notwithstanding that people have a thin skin. The class & style of this humor is missing in our daily life today.
As the weekend approaches, please have a laugh, dont misinterpret or analyse this & waste you & others times. Life is to laugh, smile, have fun & only a sense of humor gives you a life. Remember laughter is the best medicine. So read this whole series of 2 books & laugh, share.
Reading about the non stop commentary about @Tesla & #India by @elonmusk i share the following.
Given that the Tesla is an expensive electric car i understand why they want to first sell before local manufacture.
However in the same breath when they talk of manufacturing in
#Indonesia i would also give the cold shoulder to these requests. Is the argument that Indonesia is a huge local market for expensive Tesla cars or that it will be a export hub? If the latter then why not India to manufacture? Exports don't entail any taxes including for imports.
Over 30 yrs of working with global companies I have realised this strange but true attitude barring exceptions. Manufacture in India is only when they see a huge market to sell their product in India at #American/#European prices with little or no taxes. They will gripe & groan
The key points to note in this brilliant article by @dharmadispatch in @Openthemag are given in the pictures below. The biggest mystery for me is when you look at 1947 even though a #Nehru could have been sympathetic to the #Muslim cause given the #partition where was the need
to glorify the invaders, the most brutal barbaric rulers of the Mughal period & make them the heroes & representatives of Indian muslims? For someone who claimed to be secular & fighting for united India the #Nehru ecosystem could have found so many other heroes to represent the
Indian muslims. Accepting the extra sympathy for a community in the aftermath of partition #Nehru & his eco system by promoting barbaric figures as their heroes actually did the greatest disservice to the Indian muslims. Fissiparous elements drove the wedge deeper over time.
A interesting article by @editoremacb which bears reading esp after the #Texas shooting incident or #TexasMassacre as it can be called. My limited view as a outsider & based on many visits to the #USA & visiting #GunStores out of curiosity is this.
The kind of guns, range, sophistication that you can see in a store is humongous & mind boggling. At the cost of a slight exaggeration the chief of a small country's armed forces can actually really in to one of these stores & equip his forces fully with everything except maybe
bombs & missiles. The offensive capability of the guns sold don't seem to match any of the circumstances explained in real life. In the past one heard of at best the 0.38 made famous by Perry Mason novels or the 44 made famous by Dirty Harry. But why are automatic, sophisticated
That there are so many of the old ecosystem who hate #NarendraModi is known. But let's dig deeper to understand their hate more. 1) Is it that there's no corruption? No, India still has corruption but corruption is not the one & only objective like before. Today projects must get
implemented, progress shown, work done which is a new expectation 2) Is it there is greater or lesser caste/religion divide? No, it's as it always was before. Today there's parity being brought in with equal emphasis on minority community to progress & develop. The ghetto
mentality is being broken slowly 3) Is it that relationship with Pakistan or China has dramatically worsened? No the same things like before have been happening but suddenly India & it's armed forces are being given freedom to stand up with dignity, honour & courage to fight back
90-92 period, Yashwant Sinha was FM & Tejinder Khanna handling import/exports. The IAF in Hyderabad was losing crores in engine damage due to bird hits becoz of many abattoirs there. DANIDA offered to donate a abattoir waste processing plant worth over 10 crores free of cost to
the Hyderbad municipal corporation. DANIDA would also fund free training of their team to work on this sophisticated plant in Denmark. IAF contributed 1 lakh as a token contribution. The HMC gave the land/building free. The above 2 gents insisted that import duty at 130% must be
paid on this free plant & equipment being imported. The state govt, municipal commissioner sent request letters to these two gents seeking duty waiver for something being given free/grant. They said no. The arrogant reply was that if DANIDA was really serious & wanted to donate
Any celeb who thinks that only one faith system - #Hinduism - needs change, modernisation, reformation, however right they maybe will only attract negative publicity & create a deeper divide in #India. If they fight & talk of the weaknesses in other faith systems ALSO they gain
credibility. However the fact which nobody will dare to mention is that the slightest criticism of other faiths will attract such instant retribution that these celebs get crucified literally. Their fear is so real the only faith they can preach about is #Hinduism. Even this
would be acceptable provided they didn't act uppity & deride this faith as intolerant. They should be appreciating the tolerance & telling others to emulate. But then for decades esp under the @INCIndia eco system they believed truly that the #Hindus were lambs that could be used