It was a quiet Sunday to begin with. The normal chores were performed in a leisurely manner with the feeling that there was plenty of time around. Today happens to be Leela kunjamma's second remembrance day and it was an occasion to remember her, with mom recalling many of the things that they did together during their childhood at Ambalapuzha. Saw her eyes brimming with tears, many a time, during the narration accentuating the fact as to how much she missed her all the while!
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Oommen Chandy, the chief minister, was hurt by broken shards of glass when the LDF demonstrators had pelted stones at his car. He was in Kannur to attend the concluding ceremony of the Kerala Police annual athletic meet and also to attend a public meeting organised by the Congress. It definitely, was a bad scene.
The LDF's plans to prevent the chief minister from attending any public function till he resigned on the solar scam issue has backfired yet again. Wonder why such meaningless, strong arm tactics are being resorted to? I mean, such protests must have a meaningful, peaceful agenda that must essentially have the support of the people. Otherwise, the entire script can go haywire! Let's see as to how they've burnt their fingers on this score till now:-
(a) The siege of the government secretariat at Thiruvananthapuram by thousands of LDF volunteers was
called off on the second day itself without any result. The influx of additional people in the city was
choking the city's already bursting infrastructure and the sustained disruption of normal life would have
got the anti-stir sentiments of the city's population against them.
(b) Their plans to disrupt the CM's 'mass contact programme' with the masses was hastily called off
because of strong public sentiments which acknowledges that the event helps many of them to get
relief for their long standing problems, cutting through bureaucratic red tape.
(c) And now the media's coverage of an injured CM has garnered public sympathy best summed up
by my mom's reaction, "The poor man was up till the wee hours of the morning just the other day
at Kochi, patiently listening to the grievances of the public and providing 'on the spot' relief and this
is what we ungrateful wretches give him in return. Why don't the communists shun their violence?"
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Li'l Shanaya - she's 71/2 months old and hyperactive and as her mom, cutely puts it, 'warms up' to guys in general - along with her mom, dad and grandmom had called on us in the evening. I'd intentionally kept myself away from holding and cuddling her, despite her inclination, because I was awash with sweat after my evening walk and had to contend with a couple of pecks on her cheeks!
Her 'quizzical' looks at my strange behaviour had to be silently borne with regret!! I've promised to be all spruced up when she drops in on us during her next visit!!!
Tailpiece.
And the so-called serial blasts in Patna before Narendra Modi's rally was definitely in bad taste. One's political opponents must be blunted with one's own positive and meaningful agenda. And all the guys around in the field must exhibit decency, speak and act within the limits of propriety expected of every individual in public life and must be shining examples of sportsmanship!
* * *
Oommen Chandy, the chief minister, was hurt by broken shards of glass when the LDF demonstrators had pelted stones at his car. He was in Kannur to attend the concluding ceremony of the Kerala Police annual athletic meet and also to attend a public meeting organised by the Congress. It definitely, was a bad scene.
The LDF's plans to prevent the chief minister from attending any public function till he resigned on the solar scam issue has backfired yet again. Wonder why such meaningless, strong arm tactics are being resorted to? I mean, such protests must have a meaningful, peaceful agenda that must essentially have the support of the people. Otherwise, the entire script can go haywire! Let's see as to how they've burnt their fingers on this score till now:-
(a) The siege of the government secretariat at Thiruvananthapuram by thousands of LDF volunteers was
called off on the second day itself without any result. The influx of additional people in the city was
choking the city's already bursting infrastructure and the sustained disruption of normal life would have
got the anti-stir sentiments of the city's population against them.
(b) Their plans to disrupt the CM's 'mass contact programme' with the masses was hastily called off
because of strong public sentiments which acknowledges that the event helps many of them to get
relief for their long standing problems, cutting through bureaucratic red tape.
(c) And now the media's coverage of an injured CM has garnered public sympathy best summed up
by my mom's reaction, "The poor man was up till the wee hours of the morning just the other day
at Kochi, patiently listening to the grievances of the public and providing 'on the spot' relief and this
is what we ungrateful wretches give him in return. Why don't the communists shun their violence?"
* * *
Li'l Shanaya - she's 71/2 months old and hyperactive and as her mom, cutely puts it, 'warms up' to guys in general - along with her mom, dad and grandmom had called on us in the evening. I'd intentionally kept myself away from holding and cuddling her, despite her inclination, because I was awash with sweat after my evening walk and had to contend with a couple of pecks on her cheeks!
Her 'quizzical' looks at my strange behaviour had to be silently borne with regret!! I've promised to be all spruced up when she drops in on us during her next visit!!!
Tailpiece.
And the so-called serial blasts in Patna before Narendra Modi's rally was definitely in bad taste. One's political opponents must be blunted with one's own positive and meaningful agenda. And all the guys around in the field must exhibit decency, speak and act within the limits of propriety expected of every individual in public life and must be shining examples of sportsmanship!
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