Anand (Sehgal).
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While I was looking for Adriatic Land / sea in Google Maps, my attention was drawn to the fact that Adriatic is somehow related to Adri / Adrian which might owe it's origin in the Sanskrit word अद्रि :
as in हिमाद्रि, शेषाद्रि, सह्याद्रि, तुषाराद्रि,
meaning a mountain.
Then to my mind came the title :
Merchant of Venice.
So I 'searched' for it and knew it was a drama written by William Shakespeare.
I could see during his time there was a great feud between the Jew and the Christians.
The storyline of this book / drama points out how a Jew loan-shark trapped a Christian and put a condition in the agreement that in case the borrower fails to repay the due in the scheduled time, a pound of flesh from his body could be cut as the penalty.
And then the story takes a funny turn when his lawyer agrees to the same, but asks that while doing this, not a single drop of blood should be shed, as the agreement is silent about this.
This reminded me of a dialogue in the Hindi Movie "Anand" where the emperor Akbar says to Salim : हम तुम्हें जिन्दा दफना देंगे।
- (Ishaq Bhai...wala says) :
"लगी शर्त! अगर आप मुझे दफना देंगे तो मुझे जि़न्दा नहीं रख सकते, और अगर ज़िन्दा रखेंगे तो दफना नहीं सकते!"
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