NOT QUITE A1



Readers of my blog know that I have always doubted AB’s fake modesty and self-deprecation. He has always struck me as a slimy vindictive man trying to walk in the garb of ‘legend’.
And his recent ‘blogs’ have shown exactly that. He fails to not oly defend the main allegation about Taare Zameen Par being ommitted but goes on to get personal and if that were not enough he slings mud on poor Raveena Tandon and McMohan too.



But you have to give marks to Shatru for standing up to AB and for the delicious comment about Mulayam’s feet.

Please do enjoy reading.

Vish



Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha are at loggerheads once again.



This time the reason seems a little more personal. Bachchan who has taken his job as a blogger very seriously has posted a sharp comment on his website. The legendary actor has reacted to a comment made by Shatrughan Sinha over the nominations of a forthcoming award ceremony, which Bachchan endorses. Sinha had reportedly stated that the award does not really have any credibility and it was alright that Taare Zameen Par was not nominated.



Bachchan writes:



"I read a comment from my colleague and friend and neighbour, Shatrughan Sinha. It reportedly quoted his reactions to the nomination list of the awards, wherein he has purportedly stated that 'Sab kissika beta hai, ya kissiki bahu, ya kissiki biwi' , and the media adding their interpretation to it by stating that Sinha's comment was directed to a particular family of the Guru fame."



Bachchan adds: "I believe what is being insinuated is that there is partiality or some 'fixing' in the choice of the nominations carried by the awards committee. And as the report concluded, the indication was towards one family, not difficult to guess which one."



Bachchan goes on to write, "I am surprised at this observation, especially since, during the time of the National Award selection for Best Actress in one of the past years, when the award went to Raveena Tandon, it was alleged that Mr Shatrughan Sinha's wife, the lovely and graceful Poonam, a great friend of Raveena's mother had recommended the appointment of MacMohan, the brother of Raveena's mother, on the board of the Jury ( Structured by the Government in power - in this case the BJP, of which Mr Sinha was a Minister of State ) in order that he may cast his vote in favour of Raveena Tandon. If this alleged story is true then I do value Mr Shatrughan Sinha's alleged statement of "Sab kissika beta, kissiki beti, kissiki biwi" - You are so right, Shatru !!"



"Of course this does not take anything away from Raveena's very deserving Award - she has been a wonderful and talented co-artiste in many films of mine, or, MacMohan, the Sambha of Sholay, who has remained a dear friend and has worked with me in several films. As has Mr Shatrughan Sinha!!"



Getting a little more personal with Sinha, Bachchan also writes: "I have seen some very encouraging reports of the film, where your son is being introduced in this great Industry. May he prosper and succeed even more than his illustrious father and may he never have to face a slighted accusation of 'fixing', when his name comes up for an award in the future!!"



Not to be left behind, Shatrughan Sinha reacts to Amitabh Bachchan's allegation and says,



"Anger seems to have taken over the maturity of an actor like Amitabh Bachchan and that is probably the reason he has overreacted to my statement with regards to Taare Zameen Par. If I recall I have not taken any names and there are a number of film families in this industry. I really don't know why he thinks it is his family I am talking about."



When told that Bachchan has stated that Raveena Tandon got the award only because Sinha's wife is a good friend of the actress, Sinha says, "That is exactly the point I am trying to drive home. But having said that there is one point I really would want to make here. I agree my hand was there in the award, but it was not like Mulayam's feet, which was there in every award the Uttar Pradesh government has bestowed only on one family. And one can easily guess which family I am talking about."

Of School and Politics and Couples...

Lately I have been busy with the upcoming reunion of my school Alumni.

A very interesting blogsite is up and we have decided to expand and make it for all people from the hills. As an alumnus, Mr. Chogyal said, since many of us here are, by the grace of god, in good positions in different companies, we should use the opportunity to network and in the process help provide employment/career advancement for our fellow nepalis here in the middle east and later maybe even back in the hills..

All interested parties are welcome to join this forum and details can be found on the site www.darj-uae.blogspot.com/

Anyway moving on to other trivial pursuits;

Another alum and a very avid reader/contributor of this blog, Samir Sharma, recently sent me a pic he had taken somewhere in Dubai.

Personally I am a Clinton supporter but quite surprising to know Obama too has supporters so far away from home.


And here’ s little something for those engaged or married couples: It’s a wedding band that burns your finger to remind you of your anniversary. As Gadget Lab explains: A full 24 hours before your special day begins, a “hot spot” on the ring’s interior will begin to warm up to 120 degrees for approximately 10 seconds. And in case that doesn’t do the trick, the ring will continue to warm up every hour, on the hour, all day.”

I guess the phrase “I have the hots for you” suddenly has a completely new meaning now.

Till next time…

Ciao

Vish

LOGIC ANYONE????

Now that Nepal is finally in the hand of the communists (radical ones at that) we can only hope and pray that the red comrades have some sense in them to do well for the country. But if we are to go by the Brave One’s actions, then things don’t look like they will be changing for the better anytime soon.

As was widely reported in the Indian press, Prachanda rather enjoys the ‘luxuries’ of democracy like a Rado watch on his wrist, a couple of fingers of Red Label every evening and the comforts of a Pajero to ride around in. You really can’t blame the other comrades too now if they loot the country when after a decade of living and hiding in camps, they are suddenly faced with running ministries and budgets and govt bungalows.

Power Corrupts and now Absolute Power is bound to corrupt even more.

HM the King too seems on his way out (but knowing the Nepalese people’s propensity for surprise and India’s temptation to interfere, anything is possible). The cases for and against the continuation of the monarchy (constitutional or otherwise) has been debated ad-nauseam and I will not go into it now.

My concern is that the King & Queen who were the patrons of the Pashupati Temple Trust have been removed and replaced by the Prime Minister.

Ofcourse with Girija babu in that seat it wasn’t too much of a problem but we mustn’t forget that Nepal is a secular country now and so in theory a Muslim could become the PM someday. Or as looks the case right now, it might even be a Maoist.

Now aren't the Maoists by definition Atheists?

So what does that mean?

The patron of one of the holiest sites in Hinduism will be an atheist?

What if tomorrow a Muslim were to become PM?

What of the other religious ceremonies? What about the Kumari?

Will she give tika to the Atheist Prime Minister? And will he accept?

Questions… questions….

But who has the time to answer them… afterall we are too busy celebrating Prajatantra.

P.S. If the King is exiled or dethroned what happens to the siir-pech? Does he get to take it with him or will President Prachanda wear it now?

आकाश को फल, आँखा तरी मर !

Many years ago while in school we used to have exams wherein we had to complete popular sayings and quotations.

In the nepali exam I still remember getting a question to complete the phrase “Aakash ko Phal….” (The fruits of the sky…)

Personally never having heard this ‘ukhan’ or saying before I scratched my head and after a lot of thought completed it as, “Aakash ko phal, bhagwan le khancha”. (The fruits of the Sky shall be eaten by the Gods)

Of course the correct phrase, as I was to find out later, was “Aakash ko phal, aakha tari mar”

I am sure you too must have had your share of sayings that you must have completed too and recently I came across this selection of popular sayings which have also been ‘completed’ by students and some of them are quite imaginative too I must say. Infact some of them are even an improvement on the original ones.

Enjoy.

Vish


Strike while the …. bug is close.

Never underestimate the power …. of termites.

No news is ……impossible.

Don’t bite the hand that …… looks dirty.

A miss is as good …… as a Mr.

The pen is mightier ……than the pigs.

An idle mind is ….. the best way to relax.

Where there’s smoke …..there’s pollution.

A penny saved is ….. not much.

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and …… you have to blow your nose.

When the blind lead the blind …….. get out of the way.

If at first you don’t succeed….. get new batteries.

Two’s company….. three’s the Musketeers.

and, the best of them all,

Better late …..than pregnant!

नयाँ साल 2065 को तपाईं सबैलाई हार्दिक शुभकामना।

नयाँ बर्ष २०६५ ले जीवन म सधैं प्रगती र सम्रिद्धी फैलओस.

Wishing all Nepalis a very

Happy New Year 2065.

May all your dreams and wishes get fulfilled this year and may every new day bring with it lots and lots of joy and blessings.

With Warmest Regards

विशाल

WE THINK OUR FATHERS FOOLS SO WISE WE GROW;
OUR WISER SONS TOO WILL NO DOUBT THINK US SO.

“Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film.” - Anon
Below are recent findings from a survey done in UK. (By the way who pays for such surveys anyway?)
I know from first hand experience what playstations and X-Boxes are turning people into. An acquaintance of my cousin claimed to have never heard of E.T or what it was an abbreviation for. If something has not been referenced in some movie (blockbuster mind you not highbrow) within the last 10 years there is a good chance he knows nothing about it. So going by that premise then the report below is not that surprising. Anyway Read on and decide for yourself.

“Mahatma Gandhi never existed while Britain's wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was a fictional character. Don't fret. This is only what most Britons think about these great leaders.
According to a survey carried out in Britain, many believe that Mahatma Gandhi and Churchill are just mythical figures like Florence Nightingale, popularly known as the 'Lady with the Lamp'.
In fact, almost a quarter of the population has the popular notion that Churchill, who has often been hailed as "the greatest Briton of all time", was made up.
Moreover, in spite of his celebrated military reputation, 47 per cent of respondents feel the 12th-century English King Richard the Lionheart is fictional, according to the survey of 3,000 British teens.
On the other hand, a number of fictitious characters like Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur and Eleanor Rigby were given real life status.
While almost 65 per cent of respondents believe that mythical figure King Arthur existed and led a round table of knights at Camelot, 58 per cent of teens think that Holmes really lived at 221B Baker Street.
Fifty-one per cent of respondents believed that Robin Hood lived in Sherwood Forest, robbing the rich to give to the poor, while 47 per cent believed Eleanor Rigby was a real person rather than a creation of The Beatles.
The poll also revealed that nearly three quarters of those surveyed did not read history books while 61 per cent admitted that they changed channels rather than watching historical programmes on television.
"While there's no excuse for demoting real historical figures such as Churchill, the elevation of mythical figures to real life shows the impact good films could have in shaping the public consciousness," said Paul Moreton, the Head of UKTV Gold channel, which commissioned the poll.
"Stories like Robin Hood are so inspiring that it's not surprising that people like to believe these characters truly existed," he added”
Well then shouldn’t they replay Gandhi on TV soon?

Reader Discretion Warning: Post is littered with 4 letter and other swear words. Do NOT proceed if expletives offend you.

IS FUCK STILL A 4 LETTER WORD?

“It takes 46 muscles to frown but only 4 to give them the finger” - Bart Simpson

I have to clarify at the onset itself that I in no way mean that children should begin to use it or that it should even be used in formal references but what I am pondering over is if it still has that shock-value that it used to be associated with?

I remember in school when Bullshit was a major swear word as was Bloody and Bastard or better still, all three of them strung together.
But I guess the parameters have changed.

While in India recently, I was quite surprised initially and them bemused to open prominent national dailies only to see full page colour ads placed by the Australian Tourism Board asking, “So Where The Bloody Hell Are You?”

And anyone who has heard the latest Hip-Hop hits will know that the lyrics there make the Australian ad seem like a nursery rhyme.

I guess people over 35 will still recoil instinctively when they hear FUCK being uttered but does the new generation care, or to use their phraseology, do they even give a shit?

And as the wildly popular recording of the OSHO ‘sermon’ says, the word FUCK can have many many different grammatical meanings.

As a Transitive Verb: John fucked Mary
Intransitive Verb: Mary was fucked by John
Noun: Mary is a fine fuck
Adjective: Mary is fucking beautiful

It can also denote the following 'emotions':

Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot
Ignorance: Fuck if I know.
Trouble: I guess I’m fucked now.
Aggression: Fuck You!
Displeasure: What the fuck is going on here?
Difficulty: I can’t understand this fucking question.
Suspicion: What the fuck are you doing here?
Enjoyment: I had a fucking great time.
Request: Get the fuck out of here
Hostility: I am going to knock your fucking head off.
Greeting: How the fuck are you?
Apathy: Who gives a fuck
Innovation: Get a bigger fucking hammer.
Anxiety: Today is going to be really fucked.
and lastly
Surprise: Fuck, you scared the shit out of me.


For me personally the word lost its edge when the retail giant French Connection began making clothes boldly emblazoned with the word artfully miss-spelt as FCUK and sold them at exorbitant prices. the crazy prices automatically made them the must haves and once it became fashionable it was no longer taboo. Infact it was such a success that whole new phrases sprung around it. Infact when the first shop opened in San Francisco there were huge billboards all over the city grandly proclaiming it as “San Francisco’s First FCUK”

Aah Fashion… The great leveller.

Ciao Till my next post…. When will that be?? FCUK if I know.

FEEDBACK & DIALOGUE

Vishalji Namaste!
With referrence to your blog on "Do friends need to say Please and Thank You?" I disagree. We are perhaps a little too influenced by the English culture. Thank you and please is a part of that culture. Let us not forget that there are other cultures in Europe and else where that do not use these phrases to the same extent as the English (and still manage to be polite). And how is that possible you ask? Well you mark politeness by the tone of your voice rather than the words chosen. Not convinced? How about Hindi and Nepali. How many times have you said please (kripaya) in Hindi or Nepali? Now to the European example. Before leaving U.K. for Sweden, I presumed all Europeans used the equivalent of please and thank you in their own language, and to the same extent. I was surprised to find that the Swedes, the Norweigeans and the Danes had these words in their language but rarely used them. Just like Nepali the tone of the voice and gesture replaced these two phrases quite often. So let us not be fooled by the English culture and their ways. They do not represent the world or its culture. You and I come from a far older and a better developed civilisation (language, education, religion etc). I see no reason to adopt their ways in my home with my Nepali or Indian friends. I'll save the excessive use of please and thank you for the Brits.
Namaste,
Rajiv.



Dear All,

The above is a comment by Rajiv from Sweden on my last blog about Thank You & Please.
Rajiv is not only a very regular reader of the blog he is also very articulate (as can be seen from his reply). However I would like to point out that when I began sermonizing about minding our P’s & Q’s I meant it in general and not specifically in ENGLISH.

My whole rant was about the lack of manners and etiquette. The language it is delivered in is secondary. If the tone and gesture can indicate respect, why not? That’s what I was preaching about.
Basic Manners!
Not the propagation of English as a superior Language or, god forbid, as a superior Culture

Now as far as the question about our culture being far older and better developed, well, it is very true and the very reason it is so is its inclusiveness. We cannot say we have a great culture and yet live in a vacuum. Islam faces its biggest challenge simply because some fanatics have hijacked the middle ground and made it seem like a right-wing cult. One of the greatest languages, French, is today facing a major upheaval simply because it is not able to adapt itself to the new and fast changing world. And the only reason English is the lingua franca today is because it is able to adapt the best from all languages and in the process improve itself (see sample below)

Pride in one’s language, culture & heritage is all very good but we have to remember that there is a very thin line between Pride & Arrogance.

P.S. By the way Pride come from the old English word Prud and Arrogance from the Latin Arrogantem

Love the feedback though.

Till next time

Vish



Language Word
Afrikaans Apartheid
Bengali Bungalow
Cantonese Lychee
Danish Kidnap
Dutch Lottery
Farsi Shawl
French Ambulance, Diplomat, Camouflage, Omelette, Renaissance, Visa
Gaelic Whiskey
German Blitz, Muffin, Kindergarden
Greek Academy, Hero, Monarch, Nemesis, Olympic, Panorama
Gujrati Tank
Hebrew Amen, Kosher, Messiah
Hungarian Coach, Papkira
Italian Bankrupt, Fascist, Opera, Violin, Escort, Ditto, Balcony
Japanese Karate, Soy, Futon, Honcho, Rickshaw, Tsunami, Tycoon
Congo Funky, Zombie, Chimpanzee
Latin Calendar, Data, Maximum, Uniform
Latvian Sleazy
Malay Bamboo, Compound
Malayalam Atoll, Teak
Mandarin Typhoon, Kowtow
Marathi Dhow, Chit
Nepali Gurkha
Norwegian Ski, Walrus
Russian Bistro, Mammoth, Vodka, Tsar
Sanskrit Aryan, Ashram, Camphor, Guru, Indigo, Mantra, Nirvana, Swastika, Yoga
Swedish Mink, Moped, Scuffle, Wicker
Tibetan Sherpa, Yak, Yeti, Lama
Turkish Caviar, Kebab, Tulip, Yoghurt
Urdu Balti, Purdah

RANDOM MUSINGS AND OTHER THINGS...




"The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings."
—Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass

Hi,

I have been swamped with work ever since I got back from my vacation so haven’t really had the time to blog except to post excerpts.
Am still busy but thought I’d try and blog a bit today and as the quote above says, it will be of many things…

Let’s see what has happened lately…

First Things First. For all Ex-Northpointers: Fr. Van will probably visit Dubai some time in June and would love to meet ex students and so if any of you are interested we can arrange something. You can mail me at vishalsubba@hotmail.com or Samir Sharma at samir.sharma@iirme.com and we can save your contact details and keep you updated on the developments.

Regular readers of my blog will remember the seller of the bullet-proof onyx who was arrested by the Dubai police. He is still in police custody and the courts are trying to locate an “agency” which can verify the claims as they have no way to know if the stone is bullet-proof. I cant understand why they don’t get him to try it on himself but will keep you updated on the developments on this one. Looks like the beginning of a very interesting saga here.

While I was in India on a holiday I also visited Jalpaiguri which is a sleepy village/town and there outside a park was the ubiquitous ‘puchka’ seller. Since we don’t get the unhygienic-but-tasty stuff here in UAE I decided to try it and what do you know. It was really really great. No 7star hotel can come even close to the raw explode-in-your-mouth taste that I experienced. Maybe too much sanitation is not really such a good thing. After that fiery snack I saw an ice-cream seller nearby and went to buy one. He only sold cones and they were priced at 5 rupees each. Now even by Indian standards that was dirt cheap. Only once he started to make the cone that I realized why. His “ice-cream” came from a ‘dekchi’ and was served with a steel cooking ladle. Flavored icicles was more like it but god-damn me if the bloody thing didn’t taste better than anyone of the 31 flavours that Baskin Robbins sells. Why? Incredible India maybe.

IRONY: His "ice-cream" tastes like Heaven and he looks like he came from Hell

Another front page report in the Gulf News here said that a couple found 4 bugs in the food and after complaining to management the dish was exchanged without apologies. However when the bill came (I don’t understand why they were even willing to pay) they found a 25% discount under the heading “Insect In Food”. Very considerate of them but really makes you wonder if it is a regular occurrence that they even have a discounted heading for it. And if 4bugs = 25% do you need to find 16 before you get your meal free? Customer Service Dubai Style.

I was chatting randomly with my colleague recently and the topic went to manners & etiquette. Are social niceties really necessary now a days? Especially among friends. Do friends need to say Please and Thank You? Thankfully my colleague agrees with me that no amount of success, money or fame should ever replace basic manners. It does not cost you anything, it isn’t tiring to do and it really shows how you grew up. It is a reflection on your upbringing actually. Do write in and tell me what you guys feel about this.

I must also thank Jashoda in Sikkim for regularly getting my blogs published in the Sikkim Express. She’s an absolute sweetheart with whom, incidentally, I don’t keep in touch as often as I should. Is that also as bad as not saying Please & Thank You? Now there’s a question for you.
And last but definitely not the least a hindi movie called Tashan is releasing soon. Starring Saif, Kereena, Akshay Kumar & Anil Kapoor it is expected to be a brainless blockbuster in the Dhoom mould. Anyway it has a song called "Dil Dance Maare". The fun thing is the lyrics which even by Bollywood standards is absolutely innane. I have attached the lyrics below for you but the crazy thing is that the bloody song is catchy as hell and terribly entertaining. Maybe the whole thing was so bad it went right over the edge and came back around to be somehow good again. I know i am not making sense so just try reading the lyrics.

Have fun and yes, Thank You for reading. :-)

Ciao

Vish

(Chorus)
White white face dekhe dil woh beating fast sasura
chance mare re
Oh very… oh very…Oh very happy in my heart
Dil dance maare re

Oiye cant stop of my feet,
jo lamwa kare hai zalim beat
Rose ki jaisan pink pink,
humre gaal gulabi
Sky ke jaisan blue blue
hi tohara nain sharabi

(Insert chorus here)

Bola chera jaise moon,
Kali zulfe jaisa cloud
Ab na aur chupya jaye,
dhadkan ho gayi very loud
Tohare dil ka theatre ma aaa
Dil deewana booking advance maare re

YOU ONLY GET THE POLITICIANS YOU DESERVE

I saw this on a website and i remember reading it in one of the dailies while in Delhi. Very interesting and quite well written too. But what is worrying is that we tolerated him for so long.
Says a lot about us too doesnt it??
Enjoy .

Vish

THE FALL & FALL & FALL OF A 'LEADER'

If one looked at Subash Ghisingh closely, gaunt, bare-boned, unsmiling and perpetually wrapped in the sartorially killing feather-jacket and tie combination, nobody could remotely imagine he was capable of such atrocious lies or flabbergasting flights of fancy.

A sample: Gautam Buddha was 18 feet tall and each of his ears weighed 10 kg.

Another sparkling gem: Earthquakes occur when gods angrily stomp in the heavens and so it’s essential to periodically get Ganesha drunk on tongba, the local beer.

Ghisingh, who’s just stepped down as the strongest, often meanest, power centre in the Darjeeling hills, lording over 20 lakh people for 20 miserable years, could well have been India’s own version of Papa ‘Doc’ Duvalier, the Haitian dictator of the 1950s who believed more in voodoo than vox pop and once got all black dogs killed in his country because someone told him Clement Barbot, his rival, had turned into one to avoid prosecution.

In the years since Ghisingh marched for Gorkhaland and got Bengal to submit to a settlement that was half way between independent state and autonomy, the Gorkha Hill Council, no dogs were killed in Darjeeling. Darjeeling went to the dogs instead.

"There was nothing to look forward to except Ghisingh’s bizarre take on life, history and religion," says Deepak Pradhan, a businessman in Darjeeling. "People initially didn’t complain because they were too busy putting together pieces of their shattered lives after the violence of the 1980s. Later, when they did, GNLF (Gorkha National Liberation Front) goons physically throttled protest voices." By the time Ghisingh finally relinquished power, all that the former soldier of the elite 8th Gorkha Regiment was left with was a legacy of eccentricities, a long list of corruption charges, horrifying tales of excesses and, as his cohorts say, a severe bout of diarrhoea.

The man who once unified the more than one crore Nepalese in India and had grand, if suspicious, visions of Greater Gorkhaland, a warriors’ swathe that would straddle Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Darjeeling, had by the end of his eventful but abject rule become a caricature of himself. He was his own mascot. The Ghisingh mystique had morphed into burlesque.

"Who said Durga has 10 hands," he would thunder during Darjeeling’s famous Dussehra festivities. "She has 18." The goddess metamorphosed, too, as artisans implanted extra limbs, the new ones clutching frightful weapons. At other times he harangued about evolution as hapless audiences feigned interest.

"The earth was formed on June 20," he said, without either care or concern for Darwin. "And in 15 years there won’t be any mosquitoes in the world." Not that he spared anthropology, theology, medicine and quantum physics.

"Some of us," he announced earnestly, "have come from Ukraine."

In more adventurous moods he would insist global warming happened because Shani had made the sun its home. The solution: Rubber plantation. When he got tired with flying rocks that became nations, he would take on medicine and ask people to clap their hands if they wanted to beat tuberculosis. But one of his most bizarre and fantastic notions revolved around a folk singer from Nepal called Ani Tshering Doma. "Three lakh restless spirits have found peace after hearing her spiritual songs," he told a gathering once.

"That’s what it became finally," says Roshan Giri, general secretary of the rival Gorkha Janmukti Morcha. "Our hills became a fool’s paradise."

There was no talk of poverty alleviation, unemployment, corruption and the dying economy." Another GJM leader, H B Chettri, sees this as the beginning of the end of Ghisingh and his GNLF. "There’s finally light in the dark mountains," he says. A GNLF man, who changed sides timing it with the changing mood, said it was Ghisingh’s pride that did him in. "Just like the foolish emperor and his new clothes, our leader was blinded by power. And he had no one with courage to advise him better." It’s almost certain Ghisingh’s maddening run of the hills is over. The 72-year-old, who’s still not dared to return to his land, may have given the Nepalese identity, unity and dreams of Gorkhaland, but there’s little hope for himself. He could get back to writing—he’s written 21 novels, many distinctly titillating and, pen an autobiography that could be called Nothing Hill.

Unless, of course, Durga with her 18 hands comes to his rescue or a flying stone miraculously turns into a kingdom he can rule, naming it ‘Ghisinghland’.