Hair raising facts revealed at 616
Its two months since I posted on my blog space, so I plan to put something different today. Its interesting stuff and I may not be able to give it that original touch which it possessed when spoken by the legend as we will state later, but I will try to give you all the facts at least.
It was a typical night in our house which was graced by the beautiful thoughts of Enkie and cherished in an aggressive and entertaining manner by his roommates Somy, Dada, and Manex. It is rare now a days that we all gather in our living room at the same time but sometimes when it happens, its a blast. This night was also a blast, not that we partied lavishly or something but we enjoyed it to the fullest and with our hearts (agony of mind was there simulataneously).
The dinner time was just over and we were all sitting in the living room, browsing on the computers and wasting our time. Actually, I think Dada was checking out for good deals on a laptop as he has been doing it for quite sometime now. Suddenly, Dada had a very curious question boggling in his mind that why do companies give stuff for free after rebates. It was a very good question indeed and as usual I and Enkie jumped in the discussion to give our precious views. Enkie's view was that the companies motivate people to take their stuff for free so that they can recommend it to others to buy it. He stated this to be a kind of advertisement funda. I was not quite convinced with the argument and I added that companies want to make a market presence by reaching to the customers in this way. Don't worry I am not going to teach you the whole economics here. Its just that, this is the way conversations start in our home whenever they do. Continued....
Out of nowhere, Enkie in addition to his previous argument says that, if any Surf (mark the Surf part) company in India decreases 50 paise on its products, it could sell a whole lot more (Don't blame me for the level of digression coming at this stage since it was all created by Enkie). Then considering it to be a very poorly made argument, I and Dada digressed and attacked Enkie saying that 50 paise won't make even a slight difference on the companies sales. But Enkie was resilient and said that since the population of India is 10 billion and 80% of the population used Surf, it would really make a difference.
Now wait! wait! wait! Did I hear population of India to be 10 billion. Oh yeah, I did. It took me and Dada just a second to burst into hysterical laughter at this point and for the first time Manex also made his presence felt by laughing out loud and to the fullest. Enkie was quite puzzled as usual and then we made him realize that India is having a population explosion not a population Supernova. Looking this way then India would be on one side and Rest of the World on the other side. Enkie regretted his saying that and it was visible all over his face. But, the discussion was not over yet and we were all dumbfounded knowing that 80% of the India's population uses Surf. Surf!!!!!!! Did you know it? I don't think anybody else in this world would ever have thought of it except the legendary Enkie Tarkah ( his legends are more famous then him, a whole documentary can be made on that).
Now the house was on fire. The discussion was getting hot and serious. I and Dada spent a considerable amount of time convincing Enkie that India is still not such a developed nation that 80% of the population can use Surf. Infact 80% people don't even know that there is a brand named Surf out there. But, then who has moved the immovable and the same thing happened with Enkie also. All the arguments we made to convince him backfired on us and instead of accepting that we may have a point, Enkie started describing the urbanization India has gone over in the last 10 years. He described the way Varanasi looked 10 years ago with its small streets and crowdedness and how it looks now with all those big roads and industries coming up. He also added that now we have gigantic Malls and shopping centers and technologies like DTH in India which were unthinkable a few years back. So from all this he concludes that 80% of the India's population uses Surf.
Are you convinced? No, right? Even we were not. Those were the most unconvincing and out of the way arguments, we ever heard. We started our efforts to convince Enkie that even if India has gone under such a urbanization, people in villages uses local soap (remember that brown one) and other things. Over this Manex says that they use Nirma and fake surf. Never mind, he always make those irrelevant and third party statements. And, then Dada told Enkie that even in Bombay 80% people don't use Surf, leave India aside. He made continued efforts to make Enkie believe that Surf is still not accessible to the poor people. This kind of made him think a little bit and there was kind of silence for over a minute. We were holding a firm ground against Enkie Tarkah but mind me, its an impossible task to make Enkie agree over what you think.
At this point Enkie interrupted the discussion and left to go to 302. Why? What happened? We were startled to know that he was leaving such a nice, hot and spicy discussion in between. but, this is also one of the traits very much specific to Enkie. We tried to stop him and demanded to continue until we reach a consensus but then he had made his mind and may be he needed time to think over it again, whatever it was we couldn't do anything. Just to tell you, we still haven't finished our discussion on that topic and its kind of a movie with an open ending where most of things are left fuzzy. Whatever the result was, it was a great fun that night and how-so-ever stubborn Enkie Tarkah is, we can say one thing about him, he is one of his kind (that kind also being the only kind of its kind).
Advertisement caption for Enkie:
Enkie = Neighbor's envy owner's pride....God bless every apartment in 616 with one.
(P.S: No offence meant anywhere and any relation to a person living or dead is not a coincidence.)
It was a typical night in our house which was graced by the beautiful thoughts of Enkie and cherished in an aggressive and entertaining manner by his roommates Somy, Dada, and Manex. It is rare now a days that we all gather in our living room at the same time but sometimes when it happens, its a blast. This night was also a blast, not that we partied lavishly or something but we enjoyed it to the fullest and with our hearts (agony of mind was there simulataneously).
The dinner time was just over and we were all sitting in the living room, browsing on the computers and wasting our time. Actually, I think Dada was checking out for good deals on a laptop as he has been doing it for quite sometime now. Suddenly, Dada had a very curious question boggling in his mind that why do companies give stuff for free after rebates. It was a very good question indeed and as usual I and Enkie jumped in the discussion to give our precious views. Enkie's view was that the companies motivate people to take their stuff for free so that they can recommend it to others to buy it. He stated this to be a kind of advertisement funda. I was not quite convinced with the argument and I added that companies want to make a market presence by reaching to the customers in this way. Don't worry I am not going to teach you the whole economics here. Its just that, this is the way conversations start in our home whenever they do. Continued....
Out of nowhere, Enkie in addition to his previous argument says that, if any Surf (mark the Surf part) company in India decreases 50 paise on its products, it could sell a whole lot more (Don't blame me for the level of digression coming at this stage since it was all created by Enkie). Then considering it to be a very poorly made argument, I and Dada digressed and attacked Enkie saying that 50 paise won't make even a slight difference on the companies sales. But Enkie was resilient and said that since the population of India is 10 billion and 80% of the population used Surf, it would really make a difference.
Now wait! wait! wait! Did I hear population of India to be 10 billion. Oh yeah, I did. It took me and Dada just a second to burst into hysterical laughter at this point and for the first time Manex also made his presence felt by laughing out loud and to the fullest. Enkie was quite puzzled as usual and then we made him realize that India is having a population explosion not a population Supernova. Looking this way then India would be on one side and Rest of the World on the other side. Enkie regretted his saying that and it was visible all over his face. But, the discussion was not over yet and we were all dumbfounded knowing that 80% of the India's population uses Surf. Surf!!!!!!! Did you know it? I don't think anybody else in this world would ever have thought of it except the legendary Enkie Tarkah ( his legends are more famous then him, a whole documentary can be made on that).
Now the house was on fire. The discussion was getting hot and serious. I and Dada spent a considerable amount of time convincing Enkie that India is still not such a developed nation that 80% of the population can use Surf. Infact 80% people don't even know that there is a brand named Surf out there. But, then who has moved the immovable and the same thing happened with Enkie also. All the arguments we made to convince him backfired on us and instead of accepting that we may have a point, Enkie started describing the urbanization India has gone over in the last 10 years. He described the way Varanasi looked 10 years ago with its small streets and crowdedness and how it looks now with all those big roads and industries coming up. He also added that now we have gigantic Malls and shopping centers and technologies like DTH in India which were unthinkable a few years back. So from all this he concludes that 80% of the India's population uses Surf.
Are you convinced? No, right? Even we were not. Those were the most unconvincing and out of the way arguments, we ever heard. We started our efforts to convince Enkie that even if India has gone under such a urbanization, people in villages uses local soap (remember that brown one) and other things. Over this Manex says that they use Nirma and fake surf. Never mind, he always make those irrelevant and third party statements. And, then Dada told Enkie that even in Bombay 80% people don't use Surf, leave India aside. He made continued efforts to make Enkie believe that Surf is still not accessible to the poor people. This kind of made him think a little bit and there was kind of silence for over a minute. We were holding a firm ground against Enkie Tarkah but mind me, its an impossible task to make Enkie agree over what you think.
At this point Enkie interrupted the discussion and left to go to 302. Why? What happened? We were startled to know that he was leaving such a nice, hot and spicy discussion in between. but, this is also one of the traits very much specific to Enkie. We tried to stop him and demanded to continue until we reach a consensus but then he had made his mind and may be he needed time to think over it again, whatever it was we couldn't do anything. Just to tell you, we still haven't finished our discussion on that topic and its kind of a movie with an open ending where most of things are left fuzzy. Whatever the result was, it was a great fun that night and how-so-ever stubborn Enkie Tarkah is, we can say one thing about him, he is one of his kind (that kind also being the only kind of its kind).
Advertisement caption for Enkie:
Enkie = Neighbor's envy owner's pride....God bless every apartment in 616 with one.
(P.S: No offence meant anywhere and any relation to a person living or dead is not a coincidence.)
posted by somy at 11:02 AM
4 Comments:
Good post Somy!
The dark side of Enkie Tarkah :)
Keep more such updates coming. I am all ears.
Nice One.
Thanks people, will try to keep it up...
Lets start a reality show on the lines of the "Truman Show" which features Enkie. And call it: Everybody loves Enkie :).
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