Rabri or Jalebi

The whole weekend went in attending a series of GD sessions and general info on B-schools of India. Of course it had the perfect finish, when Kaif hit the ball to covers to complete the coolest victory for India in this series!!

Talking about GD's, I ralised that there are so many kinds of them. Some are the topical ones, some are case studies. There is one more category called the abstract GD. Topics like, women are dumber managers than men; Money is sweeter than honey, etc etc!!! These topics are fun to discuss, and are usually used to find out how in how many ways can 1 person interpret and discuss this topic.

One such topic I got was "Rabri or Jalebi". Me being me, could find about an infinite useless and thoroughly entertaining ways of discusing this topic, and freaked out. Below is an outline of what I made the group discuss:

-- If required to start a business, what would be more profitable? Rabri or Jalebi? Rightfully, this should hv been the primary topic discussed, and I started off this discussion, but sadly, the group had started indulging in a totally MBAish discussion of this angle, and I decided this topic is too juicy for a dull MBAish discussion, so started throwing in random ideas!

-- Make a movie called Rabri or Jalebi, about Bihar's chief minister and her husband's illegitimate daughter. Who will be the next Chief minister??!!!

-- Start a multinational brand XYZ Juicy Jalebi's, or ABC Milky Rabris.. and to cater to the international market, keeping calorie conscious customers in mind, start selling diet Jalebis, low calorie rabri, fatless jalebis... etc etc!!!

-- With elections round the corner, we could start 2 new parties in Bihar, with one of them, named Rabri, having Jalebi as the election symbol. The other, named Jalebi, having the rabri as the election symbol. Campaign slogan for these 2 parties, the sweetest parties in town!

-- There is a saying in Hindi, rather a phrase for crooked people, which goes "Jalebi jaisa seedha". So there was a consensus in the group that the great Rabri Devi is being controlled by an unnamed guy who is as Seedha as a Jalebi.!!

As you could guess, all these ideas together reduced the GD to a Jammish atmosphere, and the moderator had to jump in and shout out the most often repeated/cliched dialogue in Hindi movies. often said with a hammer in the speaker's hands "Order, Order" ( I almost asked him if he wished to order Jalebi or Rabri, but decided against it!! ;) )

--Avi