tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437698588011044329.post7756362413827607360..comments2024-01-26T10:37:17.273+05:30Comments on Soldier of Fortune: Bar tales of three cities, Chotta Bristol : KolkattaSamilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02439356454610670189noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437698588011044329.post-37020078872367481682010-06-09T12:28:54.094+05:302010-06-09T12:28:54.094+05:30Dear Anonymous,
Any comment is appreciated. I am ...Dear Anonymous,<br /><br />Any comment is appreciated. I am a salesman, learning to write. I hope you are not a writer trying to learn to sell. That's even worse than the disaster I poured out. By the way, this was a series as a part of my amateur days. I am told its, better now.<br /><br />But, I agree i have to cover a lot more ground. I would have respected your feedback , a liitle more, if you had the courtesy to leave a name.<br /><br />About, Manjeet, I would leave you with each other to sort your issues.<br />Cheers,<br />SamSamilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02439356454610670189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437698588011044329.post-39968706261209425632010-06-09T12:17:44.515+05:302010-06-09T12:17:44.515+05:30Right, so for the benefit of the less educated (li...Right, so for the benefit of the less educated (like me): your skipping rhythm and rhyme (or reason) English is hard to follow. Was it after a Chotta Bristol round that you wrote this? <br /><br />Typically of people from a certain part of India, thou look'st only at outward show. There wasn't and in my opinion still isn't any comparison between the laid back atmosphere of Shaw's with the loud and crass watering holes of Punjab or the 'on shop' varieties of the proverbial 'south' you delienate. <br /><br />Chotta bristol comes (like other things in an old city like Calcutta where drinking has never been so frowned upon as in other places) with history and lineage, minus torn posters of heroines. <br /><br />And Manjeet Narwan, ah where shall I begin. It is typical of him to take pictures of waiters.(I do happen to know him and to find his regal illegal self mentioned in your random blog found through internet trawling shows that he is bound to reappear needlessly at strange places.) I can almost hear his insensitive snigger about all things Bengali or Calcuttan. Well hear me do the same about all things Punjabi or of the Proverbial<br />North, which I delienate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437698588011044329.post-9389808258979328482008-07-24T13:18:00.000+05:302008-07-24T13:18:00.000+05:30Pape! one small chip fracture and a coupla days at...Pape! one small chip fracture and a coupla days at home has helped you up load over 10,000 words and clog the entire internet space....wonder wht'll happen if you take a week off and stay back at home....am sure you will beat sandip....btw, manjit was overwhelmed by your hospitality (shouldnt it have been the other way round, eh!)...one small request, anything to do with food & booze, pls post fotos too (or did you and i couldnt see??!!)muralihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17699621531961515826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437698588011044329.post-87457107636760722822008-07-23T01:23:00.000+05:302008-07-23T01:23:00.000+05:30Chota Bristol gets its name from the original Bris...Chota Bristol gets its name from the original Bristol Hotel (nee Hotel D’Europe), which once straddled the same building predating the Grand and the Great Eastern. In one of the many odes to Calcutta of late doing their rounds on the net, a Delhi parvenu (whom some jealous detractors call a ‘Chota Amar Singh’ – albeit a more sophisticate version. Incidentally both have their roots in Calcutta !!) referred to it as the “Chotta Barrister” (sic)GhoseSpothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03694772085399940261noreply@blogger.com