Had heard the alarm in the morning at 6 but both of us had turned back to sleep for some more time. But we shook ourselves off the lethargy and went about our chores by a quarter past 6. Had decided to go for a haircut - my first one at the nearby 'Amigos' after October. In between, one of the boys had come home to style my hair because of my medical condition.
So, breakfast was had without having a bath! Lekha and Preetha had gone to the supermarket, nearby, to buy grocery, vegetables and fruits. By about a half past 10, before they returned, I was off because Sajish, the boy who took care of my hairstyle needs, was free. It was a nice three quarters of an hour with a massage thrown in that relaxed me considerably!
What saddened me was the news of the two Air Force test pilots, who'd passed into the mist of time yesterday, at the Bangalore airport. They were test flying a Jaguar made by the HAL which seemed to have all sorts of problems - one of its oleos had sheared off immediately on take off. Both the pilots had ejected but their parachutes had caught fire by the aircraft's debris - one died instantaneously while the second died, sometime later at the hospital! And this was the organisation, along with the Congress party, which was making a lot of allegations against the Modi government for overlooking it in the manufacture of the subsequent Rafael aircraft under the Offset Agreement of the main contract!
Vipinachandran(Roll no.432), my classmate from school and a forester, along with his wife, Leena had reached Guruvayur this afternoon in connection with a wedding in their family. They'd dropped by at 'The Quarterdeck' in the evening and were with us for about an hour and a half. I was on lime juice, along with Lekha and Leena, while he sipped his brandy - I was on a sabbatical from hard drinks thanks to a restriction in intakes, post-jaundice. Their son - Unni is his pet name - was off to Canada and was boarding the flight in the wee hours of tomorrow morning to attend a meeting. He will return after a week. He works for the company, IBS and writes programs that move the ailerons and the fins of an aircraft that help in its motion in air as well as on the ground and the youngster is deputed for most of the interactions abroad thanks to his proficiency in English.Must interact with him to know more about his work!
Tailpiece.
The selection committee comprising the PM, the CJI and Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge has selected former Madhya Pradesh DGP, Rishi Kumar Shukla as the new director of the CBI. He was recently removed from the post of DGP by the Kamalnath government, soon after taking over. Mallikarjun Kharge of the Congress, has come up with a dissent note that all three aspects of seniority, integrity and investigative experience in investigation of anti-corruption cases should be given equal weightage and that RK Shukla lacked the third aspect!
Isn't that a joke? It's like insisting that the CMD and Managing Director of the Air India must be a pilot too!
So, breakfast was had without having a bath! Lekha and Preetha had gone to the supermarket, nearby, to buy grocery, vegetables and fruits. By about a half past 10, before they returned, I was off because Sajish, the boy who took care of my hairstyle needs, was free. It was a nice three quarters of an hour with a massage thrown in that relaxed me considerably!
What saddened me was the news of the two Air Force test pilots, who'd passed into the mist of time yesterday, at the Bangalore airport. They were test flying a Jaguar made by the HAL which seemed to have all sorts of problems - one of its oleos had sheared off immediately on take off. Both the pilots had ejected but their parachutes had caught fire by the aircraft's debris - one died instantaneously while the second died, sometime later at the hospital! And this was the organisation, along with the Congress party, which was making a lot of allegations against the Modi government for overlooking it in the manufacture of the subsequent Rafael aircraft under the Offset Agreement of the main contract!
Vipinachandran(Roll no.432), my classmate from school and a forester, along with his wife, Leena had reached Guruvayur this afternoon in connection with a wedding in their family. They'd dropped by at 'The Quarterdeck' in the evening and were with us for about an hour and a half. I was on lime juice, along with Lekha and Leena, while he sipped his brandy - I was on a sabbatical from hard drinks thanks to a restriction in intakes, post-jaundice. Their son - Unni is his pet name - was off to Canada and was boarding the flight in the wee hours of tomorrow morning to attend a meeting. He will return after a week. He works for the company, IBS and writes programs that move the ailerons and the fins of an aircraft that help in its motion in air as well as on the ground and the youngster is deputed for most of the interactions abroad thanks to his proficiency in English.Must interact with him to know more about his work!
Tailpiece.
The selection committee comprising the PM, the CJI and Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge has selected former Madhya Pradesh DGP, Rishi Kumar Shukla as the new director of the CBI. He was recently removed from the post of DGP by the Kamalnath government, soon after taking over. Mallikarjun Kharge of the Congress, has come up with a dissent note that all three aspects of seniority, integrity and investigative experience in investigation of anti-corruption cases should be given equal weightage and that RK Shukla lacked the third aspect!
Isn't that a joke? It's like insisting that the CMD and Managing Director of the Air India must be a pilot too!
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