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That one story about Faiz Ahmed Faiz and more…

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One amazing interview!! Great learning with wisdom, insight, knowledge and humour.  Hats off to you Javed Sahab. I learn more each time I listen to you and the image I have put with this post is my reflection back to you for sharing your life story. Part 1: https://youtu.be/emilVZg68R0?si=CjKw6jLzXi8rWdKo Part 2: https://youtu.be/l78-sKNoU1k?si=Q8QyThZy6AeMRMgE Thank you Saurabh Dwivedi and team for this one and other such interviews that I have watched and the ones I have lined up in my list. I have always believed that the quality of an interview is dependent on the depth of research the team does and the quality of the questions one is willing to ask unlike the sadak-chhap chhapri type of questions most of the tv anchors are now infamous for. Hats off to you too πŸ˜ŒπŸ˜ŒπŸ™πŸ½πŸ™πŸ½πŸ™πŸ½

Ek bandar submarine ke andar

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I was finally able to live my idea even though the dream is still pending. For a while I haven’t been getting any calls from bank agents with unwanted loan offers. So what I had thought of saying after the last such loan call about a year ago or so remained moth balled till last week. For some time now I have been getting calls from a bunch of people claiming to be from Gujarat asking if I have been into stocks and if I wanted to invest further. In the last such call I decided to take out the idea that I had originally planned for bank loan offers and modify it to these unsolicited stock advisers. I replied by saying that I don’t invest and trade in stocks anymore. What do you do then? I invest and trade only in submarines. Oh submarines? But why? The margin, I said. Stocks mey sub ab kya rakha hai? Sabhi log ab stocks mey ghusey huey hain na. Kuch to alag karna padega na. And he spoke as if he had heard about submarines as an investment option but that he specialised in equities and b...