’tis the season of the wedding industry haul and boy, are they not shy of demanding their pound of flesh.
Amongst the absolute top tier of wedding dress designers, the main garb (to be worn just once) can rack up a bill of Rs20 lakhs!
Well, arbitrage and insider trading can play a bit of a role here, as the kareegars of the leading brands are offering to sell the same items to prospective clients for half the price. With the sort of margins these highway robbers have, the savings are astronomical even at 50pc.
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The former army chief wasn’t a keynote speaker or anything at Davos but at least was a panelist on a digital security moot.
The prime minister, on the other hand, didn’t have a speaking role, as it were. The sort of guy who is billed as “2nd man in suit” as the credits of the movie start rolling.
Even when he was meeting Bill Gates, now in charge of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to talk about the state of education in Pakistan, he seemed to be holding on to the safety blanket of his “parchi”, as could be seen from an image that has gone viral on social media in the country.