It's an ordinary day. My boys had come all the way from Kochi to hand over the last installment of my personal effects by afternoon. Mom's ayurvedic treatment entered the sixth day and she'd to be gently chided for bucking instructions when the massages had caused her discomfort. The rest of the activities had a repetitive hue but here are a couple that had indeed caught my imagination:-
(a) Contact re-established.
I'd been often wondering as to why my senior and friend, Captain Matloob Khan had become
incommunicado. My calls had gone unanswered and he has generally been quiet on the net too. This
evening I'd got a call from his son, who's presently based at Singapore and came to know that the Khans,
too, were there with him. He updated me on his dad's condition - badly asthmatic, coupled with the
Parkinson's Syndrome with periodic bouts of depression. He said that he'd wanted to contact me
for the past few months because the family thinks that interactions with me would rejuvenate him!
The two of us had a long chat and updated ourselves of each other. I've taken on the task to get him an
ayurvedic treatment package during the first half of April, this year. It's my fond hope that the wholesome
medical management would improve his health drastically and in the process, I would also get to have his
company!
(b) In bad taste.
Today was the judgement day of the 'TP Chandrasekharan murder case'. The CPM had a high stake on
the outcome as many of its top rung leaders had been implicated and the needle of suspicion was pointing
at the probability of orders having been given from the top to eliminate the rebel who was attaining
popularity and acceptance among the cadres at their expense! All eyes were, therefore, on the court's
observations on P Mohanan, a member of the party's Kozhikode district secretariat!! He's been acquitted
and the party seems to have gone overboard with its reactions. Sample these:-
(i) laddoos distributed to one and all with a television grab showing a few savouring the sweet with
an arrogant defiance at the camera.
(ii) the party leaders have claimed victory(?) and say that the verdict, underlines their clean image.
Wasn't the merry making a bit in haste? And what's the victory being claimed? Don't they've any feelings
about the misery that TP's family is going through?
There would be appeals and counters and hence, it's not a closed issue. What's to be awaited is to know as to who among the players has the last laugh.
Tailpiece.
There's soon gonna be a 'Dreamliner' service between New Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram, if reports are to be believed. It would help the pilots of Air India to clock in their flights, they say! Well!!
(a) Contact re-established.
I'd been often wondering as to why my senior and friend, Captain Matloob Khan had become
incommunicado. My calls had gone unanswered and he has generally been quiet on the net too. This
evening I'd got a call from his son, who's presently based at Singapore and came to know that the Khans,
too, were there with him. He updated me on his dad's condition - badly asthmatic, coupled with the
Parkinson's Syndrome with periodic bouts of depression. He said that he'd wanted to contact me
for the past few months because the family thinks that interactions with me would rejuvenate him!
The two of us had a long chat and updated ourselves of each other. I've taken on the task to get him an
ayurvedic treatment package during the first half of April, this year. It's my fond hope that the wholesome
medical management would improve his health drastically and in the process, I would also get to have his
company!
(b) In bad taste.
Today was the judgement day of the 'TP Chandrasekharan murder case'. The CPM had a high stake on
the outcome as many of its top rung leaders had been implicated and the needle of suspicion was pointing
at the probability of orders having been given from the top to eliminate the rebel who was attaining
popularity and acceptance among the cadres at their expense! All eyes were, therefore, on the court's
observations on P Mohanan, a member of the party's Kozhikode district secretariat!! He's been acquitted
and the party seems to have gone overboard with its reactions. Sample these:-
(i) laddoos distributed to one and all with a television grab showing a few savouring the sweet with
an arrogant defiance at the camera.
(ii) the party leaders have claimed victory(?) and say that the verdict, underlines their clean image.
Wasn't the merry making a bit in haste? And what's the victory being claimed? Don't they've any feelings
about the misery that TP's family is going through?
There would be appeals and counters and hence, it's not a closed issue. What's to be awaited is to know as to who among the players has the last laugh.
Tailpiece.
There's soon gonna be a 'Dreamliner' service between New Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram, if reports are to be believed. It would help the pilots of Air India to clock in their flights, they say! Well!!
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