Merchant of Venice.

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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