What is the secret behind your happy married life?

Santa and Banta were looking at a catalogue and admiring the models. Santa says to the Banta, "Have you seen the beautiful girls in this catalogue?" Banta replies, "Yes, they are very beautiful. And look at the price!"

Santa says, with wide eyes, "Wow, they aren't very expensive. At this price, I'm buying one."

Banta smiles and pats him on the back, "Good idea! Order one and if she's as beautiful as she is in the catalogue, I will get one too."

Three weeks later, Banta asks Santa, "Did you ever receive the girl you ordered from the catalogue?"

Santa replies, "No, but it shouldn't be long now. I got her clothes yesterday!"

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Once Banta asked Santa, "What is the secret behind your happy married life?" Santa said, "You should share responsibilities with due love and respect to each other. Then absolutely there will be no problems."

Banta asked, "Can you explain?"

Santa said, "In my house, I take decisions on bigger issues where as my wife decides on smaller issues. We do not interfere in each other's decisions."

Still not convinced, Banta asked, "Give me some examples" Santa said, "Smaller issues like which car we should buy, how much amount to save, when to visit home town, which Sofa, air conditioner, refrigerator to buy, monthly expenses, whether to keep a maid or not etc are decided by my wife. I just agree to it"

Banta asked, "Then what is your role?"

Santa said, "My decisions are only for very big issues. Like whether America should attack Iraq, whether Britain should lift sanction over Zimbabwe, whether to widen African economy, whether Sachin Tendulkar should retire etc. Do you know one thing, my wife NEVER objects to any of these".

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Amazing experience, I had at London Coffee Festival - http://www.londoncoffeefestival.com/

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Chanel COCO - Its a really good one, I noticed after a long time. Girls listening?

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SHOCKING ! On a given week, sexual violence appears daily in the national newspapers -- a 16-year-old allegedly raped by her father, a landlord convicted of raping a tenant, a rickshaw-puller caught raping his 10-year-old daughter, a 19-year-old boy raping a 12-year-old mentally disabled girl, a 25-year-old raping his cousin, and a man throwing acid on his wife's private parts. While these cases haven't triggered demonstrations, they indicate regularly reported attacks on women and children.

"Our government has moved with speed in strengthening the law to be able to deal more effectively with offences against women," said Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister on Sunday. "But, this is only a small part of what needs to be done."The gruesome assault on a little girl a few days back reminds us once again of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity from our society."

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And a beautiful Oriya song, to end the evening. A friend of mine forwarded this to me few years ago. Sounds great if you play it with a good sorrounding sound system

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Goodnight and have a BRILLIANT AND BRIGHT week ahead!