Friday, January 18, 2019

A quiet Friday.

It was a late night, last night and so, getting up along with the alarm was a bit tough. We'd gone about our chores and I was on my morning walk and prayers, earlier than usual to keep up with Shyla's appointment.

She'd fetched up by a quarter to 9 and drew my blood sample for yet another round of the 'liver function test'. And today, she'd drawn the sample without giving me any pain.

Our maid, Preetha will be absent on Sunday and Monday as she needs to take a scan of her troublesome kidney and report to her doctor. She's worried that he might ask her to undergo the surgery for the removal of the kidney as it has been giving her pain of late!

Our new passports reached us by the morning post. I was reminded of the initial issue in 2009, while we were at New Delhi, when I'd to finally fetch mine from the Delhi Cantt post office - 110010, during working hours. Have still not been able to get hold of Jayachandran's cell number as yet. Sad!

The rest of the day was quiet.


Tailpiece.

The fake news departments of the political parties have become very active of late. The following gives a fair idea about the intentions:-

    (a) Create confusion among the people by fudging statistics and twisting analytical reasoning to
          suit the interests of the concerned political party, in the run up to the general elections. For eg.
          the latest article by N Ram of the Hindu - everyone is aware of his political affiliation - in the              Frontline Magazine about the Rafael Aircraft agreement.
          My take. Aim anything and everything at Narendra Modi with the fond hope that something
          sticks. And 'gathbandhan' after 'gathbandhan' are being formed in various states to beat the
          electoral arithmetic with the sole intention of not allowing Narendra Modi from coming back
          to power. Shows their insecurity and tells us, the citizens in clear terms that, "they are
          threatened and fear their exposure for all the wrong reasons".
    
    (b) The list of 51 women, brought out by the government of Kerala, as those who've visited the
          Sabarimala shrine is a big joke. It consists of a few women above the age of 50 and also a
          man. Why do they've to do it? To show that the state government has fulfilled the Supreme
          Court judgement on the issue?.......and achieved surreptitiously? Is it an achievement in the
          real sense? 


         
  

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