News views.

1. Nawab Malik Needs to Know What Life Is About

Nawab Malik, a minion of the NCP and a minister in the Maharashtra cabinet has been making personal

attacks on Samir Wankhede, the leader of the NCB team investigating the Aryan Khan-involved drug case.

He has been continuously making grave charges and resorting to personal attacks on the investigating officer. Why is he doing this?

  * Has he got a hidden loyalty for Shahrukh Khan?

  * Is he advocating for a different legal process for the spoiled star kid?

  * Isn't he a minister? Who's doing his job because he seems to have plenty of time to heap abuse on           the investigating officer?

  * Doesn't he want the investigation to go along the right lines so that the actual culprits are brought to

     book?

  * And why doesn't Sharad Pawar, his party leader, ask him to shut up and let the investigation team       do their job? Haven't you learnt from life, yourself, that falsehoods and innuendos do not go far in         life? 

2. The Anti-nationals Need To Be Put In Place

What does one do to Indians who cheer Pakistan when that country is playing against India? Firstly, I'm trying to understand their psyche, let me make a few guesses :-

   * They hate being Indians while enjoying everything of this country.

   * They don't wish anything good for their own country

   * They are mean and do not understand and value the meaning of 'motherland'.

   * Or are they Pakistanis who've wormed their way into this country because it offers them the best.

I'm glad that the police have taken note of their perfidy and it's my sincere hope that action is taken forthwith without any loss of time. I recommend the following actions :-

    * Their ration cards should be cancelled.

    * Their passports should be confiscated and cancelled.

    * They should be made to understand that 'freedom of speech' doesn't mean license to say things

       against their own country.

    * They should be named and shamed.

    * They should be ostracized from the society that they live in.

    * And pack them off to Pakistan at the first available opportunity, lock, stock and barrel.

Tailpiece.

Got up at 6, the chores, the Wednesday aarathi of the house and was ready by 10.

It was a quiet day.

Things were tied up for our trip tomorrow to meet up with Dr Srikant Mallan.