Long ago I was working in Sarabhai group, a leading industrial house in India with interests in Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, textile, polymers, detergents, cosmetics and many more. I have heard that we used to follow a potato price index related slab for fixing our Dearness Allowance. It seems that those have become antiquated and now undergarments have moved in, be it to gauge economic growth or to confirm killing of ISIS leaders.
The hidden from eyes, save from the ogling Akshay Kumar in a chauvinistic Dollar underwear Ad, the humble modified and improvised langot has scaled great heights. An insider smuggled out the most prized material, an undergarment, worn by Baghdadi, the ISIS leader, which then flew out to the most secured CIA labs to determine his DNA. After his suicide, following an attack by US Marines, it was this inner-wear, which confirmed the identity of the dead terrorist.
Let’s move on to more worldly affairs. The imbroglio over the CM’s post is keeping the formation of the government in Maharashtra by the estranged partners BJP and Shiv Sena. I am genuinely touched by the undying desire of service by the politicians of our country, who will go all out for the preferred portfolios.
Tamil Nadu is agog with a huge land grab allegation against the DMK. That is nothing strange, save that it involved their office and if legal action is pursued, the party may lose out a prime plot that it is alleged to have usurped, sans any valid documents. The land grab news dwarfed with a child falling into an open tube well hole, and the state went into an orgy of prayers, invoking every god from all religions.
Sadly, the efforts to bring out the child alive failed, but something strange happened, a race to announce financial compensation to the grieving family; the opposition DMK announced Rupees ten lacs, not to be outdone, the government announced twenty lacs and so it went on. Only in one district, there are more than 8000 open tube well holes in disuse waiting to gobble unsuspecting children. A situation could arise now that the children start praying; they are not pushed into the holes for the hard to resist largesse. On a serious note, the open holes must be closed soon, if necessary, with a law enforcing the same.
Bengal is busy, thinking of appointing a committee to explore what other pujas could be celebrated after Jagadatri Puja, which will draw the curtains for the year until Saraswati Puja would open the account early in the next year. The state cannot afford a lull, though a Film festival, a T20 cricket match, Christmas and New Year will fill the interim void of puja-less November and December. Talking about Christmas, does anyone have a clue, where is Derek O’Brien, one of the not-so-soft-spoken-voice of the ruling party in Bengal.
Remembering the ruling party, it is no secret who rules the former Mayor Sovan Chatterjee. The ex-TMC leader and right hand of Didi switched over to BJP with his live-in friend, Baisakhi. Both were not in their bright moods, and so was another ready-to-switch politician, Shatabdi Roy, who for some strange reasons was not inducted into BJP and went back to TMC. Sovan has been cold-shouldered by the BJP and decided to brave it to Didi’s home on ‘brother’s day,’ accompanied by, you guessed it, Baisakhi. I quite don’t believe in mumbo-jumbo, but has the problem began after he moved into Fort building? Whispers of a Vastu non-compliant abound the tall structure, though a family friend living there rubbishes all these as nonsense. Which? I leave it to your guess!
Sampath Kumar
Intrépide Voix
