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By asking for her pound of flesh in return for being a rubber stamp President Pratibha Patil has indeed set a wrong precedent. No other President has ever done that. They have all been above all this, as they should’ve been. For Pratibha Patil, well, all I can say is wrong precedent by the wrong President.
I had initially written this post on 29 April 09 when CBI had given a clean chit to Ottavio Quattrochhi and the elections were just round the corner. Well, the country has moved on but apparently things have too. Congress has come back to power and today it has been revealed that govt is dropping the cases against Quattrochhi altogether. Not really unexpected given what I wrote earlier. Check it out. It’s still very much relevant.
The name of the game is nuke-nuke bang-bang. The players are our current and past National Security Advisers(NSA) and nuke scientists. When it started there were a couple of scientists who claimed that nuke test of 1998 was more of a dud than a success it was claimed to be. It was countered by another section of scientists who claim that the first set of scientists were wrong and that the tests were just fine. One all. Then the NSAs joined in, both current and the one in 2003. Both of them said nuke tests were just fine. That made it two-one in favour of fine. Then Dr APJ Kalam also pitched in for fine making it three-one. BJP too chipped in saying what was expected- fine. And that’s the stage where the match currently is. Four-one in favour of fine.
P Chidambaram was being very decent when he recently said that Delhiites need to behave themselves. What he actually meant was that most Delhiites are one hell of a crude self centered lot who need to be taught a few lessons in good behaviour. He is dead right. They are indeed all that and more. And most Delhiites don’t just need lessons in good behaviour but a few kicks on the backside. As they say- laton ke bhoot baton se nahin mante.
Whenever there is a talk of Narendra Modi, most of us, depending on which side of the political and religious divide we belong to, conjure up two different pictures of him. One is of a person who played a major role during Gujarat riots and the second one is of a leader who is now the guiding force behind the rapid development and modernization of state of Gujarat. There is yet another group of people who have not yet made up their minds as to whether they want to hate him or love him or neither.
Ever heard of a guy called Simon Henderson? Quite unlikely, I guess. Ever heard of AQ Khan? Yeah, the same AQ Khan who is called the ‘Father of Islamic nuke bomb’. He’s the same guy who was called the Biggest Nuke Proliferator in the world. Well, the ‘Father’ has spoken. And he has used the services of Simon Henderson to convey what he had to say to the world by way of a four page letter.
Even as the debate rages on about the ‘innocent’ little tweet of our UN returned Shashi Tharoor I would like to proclaim that it is actually me whom he was referring to. Yes, I’m from ‘cattle class’. Me and nearly three hundred million other Indians who travel economy, if and when they travel by air. Unfortunately for Tharoor, it is this ‘cattle class’ which drives not just the airline in which he travels but more than 70% of the entire Indian economy. And if he feels below his dignity to be associated with this class in any manner he can quit and go back to UN where he came from. A whole lot of tweeters have rallied behind Tharoor and have said that it was just innocent humor. Even our Prime Minister has dismissed it as just a joke. But I’m sorry, I take umbrage to this remark.
Shahrukh’s life is jhinga la la these days, even as he advises others ki sabse jyada wish karo. Well, the others are just wishing while he himself is having a jhinga la la. Morality has very little to do with life these days. What would our celebrities not do for more money and comfort even if it is at the cost of their morality? Do I hear them saying ‘Morality- which bird is that?’ (Yeh kis chidiya ka naam hai?).
I know that’s not a Lhasa Apso but this is the dog who started it all. And I’ve now reached a point where the very mention of a Lhasa Apso drives me crazy. In fact I’d be more than happy to kick one if I came across the damned animal, even on the street. Want to know why?
While we are on the issue of organizing games in Delhi I would like to mention that the Badminton World Championships which were recently concluded in Hyderabad were initially supposed to be held in Delhi. They were shifted from Delhi to Hyderabad because the stadiums and the rest of the paraphernalia in Delhi was not ready. Mind you, it was Delhi which made a bid for these games and were allocated the same in 2005, much after the allotment of Commonwealth Games which was in 2003. This bid was probably made only because after the CWG games were allotted to us we thought that we should get this World Cup as well because by 2009 everything should be ready for CWG 2010.
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