Came across this presentation on the resourceful http://www.slideshare.net/. It's won the people's choice award in a contest that slideshare recently held. It's also the only 'Indian' presentation on the honour roll. Or so I think. But commendable effort.
Abhishek Thakkar, the creator of this presentation and a blogger (http://www.hurrhurr.com/), says "I am not a Thela-wala, but yes I will someday take Pani puri to the world. I am proud that such a delicacy has been invented in India, like zero and Kamasutra. I dont feel any shame in bringing it to a contest, its happening in the whole world and if we foodaholics wont bring our stuff to the masses then who will?" Well Mr. Thakkar, what can I say...
I do have a few things to say on the presentation, though:
1) Slide 1 shows a large portion of onion on the plate. The pani-puri in Mumbai don't have onion in them but possibly the golgappa, puchka or patashe versions do. If so, then it's quite embarrasing that I didn't know, given that pani-puri is my all time favourite snack. Can someone please save me from this embarrasment? (On a different note, I intend to have a special feature on my local behlpuri bhaiya soon...so watch out for that one!)
2) Slide 7 has proved that pani-puri is metaphorically 'Mother Earth'. Now even though I swear by the snack, isn't the comparison too far fetched? And though I do understand that it's Mr. Thakkar's first love, it's difficult to imagine that pani-puri is the solution to world peace (http://www.hurrhurr.com/fn/2007/pani-puri-my-first-love). But as they say, love makes people blind...
3) Slide 14 states that it's a 'World 2.0' product. Again far fetched, but wittily arrived at.
4) Slide 15 and Slide 16 are completely unnecessary. Why bring in an emotional angle, and that too completely out of line with what has been said earlier? And it's not ALWAYS healthy when the pani-puri guy has dug his hands into places you would rather not imagine!
All in all, well-photographed images, no real content but surely said from the heart.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
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