Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: >> with, and had a curious tinny aftertaste. Everything's sitting in one >> solid lump somewhere inside me right now. > > Kayam Churan to the rescue
For the non indians around - that's an old, old brand of ayurvedic / herbal laxative, mainly powdered senna leaves and a few other things, that you mix into a glass of water and drink. They had (or maybe still have) a really cheezy ad that they ran for years.. three demons with "constipation", "acidity" and "gas" daubed in white paint on their potbellies.. a hunter (popular local TV comedian) wearing the standard safari suit trying to shoot them, which doesnt work A sage hands him a bottle of kayam churan and says "the cure for these is not golis, but ayurveda" <- which can mean either bullet, or pill, so that's the obligatory pune, or play on words, that the ad makes [thanks, pterry!]. The bottle is held out - and the three demons get struck with lightning and vanish. Damn, I havent seen that ad in years, but it is so cheezy that I still remember it.
