B.L. and I

God bless America and all that.. I’m going to use initials ..ok here B.L. stands for public enemy number one … you must have guessed it, the entire world has one major public enemy right now…

So I was in India during 9/11 , a few days later the name of the perpetrator was unveiled as a terrorist organization led by a certain O.B.L., that guy was a fanatic, it was really sad watching the whole September 11 tragedy happening on TV, I can imagine how it would be for people directly affected…. Any way it wasn’t the first time I’d heard the name B.L. , I hadn’t heard of this particular person, but from a very young age I was acquainted with his family ..my aunt ( you know how in India ,any lady who may or may not be related is your Auntie) , anyway we felt a close kinship with our Aunt, she is Mangalorean Catholic by the way, my dad and his other good friends ( my uncles ;who in my childhood away from blood relatives served as family (god bless them all !!) were paying guests with this Aunt and Uncles family in their bachelor days….any way my aunt worked here ..see picture (interesting huh!!!)


So courtesy my aunt we used to have stationary with the name inscribed throughout our stay in Dubai( in fact most of my school life i wrote exams on a clipboard courtesy the BL company ) ,we used to go to the office whenever my mom needed to borrow Femina’s or Eve’s Weekly from my aunt … apart from the fact that the office is located across the road from the house we used to stay in !! So yea we were familiar with the name from a very early age. My aunt worked there before I was born and she still works there (that’s a pretty long time !) . I think she rather likes her employers….

So when all this happened and we found out the tyrants name it was all a bit surprising… “That guy is related to the folks Aunty works for , the people who own that rather boring looking ( by Dubai standards) building … we even have stationary with the last name inscribed!!! …hmmm” , we didn’t throw away the stationary…. How ever much we abhor(red) the Jihad “martyr” psychos ..the fact is we didn’t throw away the stationary (atleast the last time I checked ) … because we understood that one man didn’t represent his entire family(it’s a big family) ….and just extending a bit does not represent his religion .