Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The Tribune-Chatterati-27th.June.2011

"If there is no work, pen a book!"


Junior ministers at the centre are always talking about being ignored by their seniors and delegated little or no work at all. However, Prof. K V Thomas is a very busy minister from Kerala. When Sharad Pawar met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to demand a lesser workload; Thomas was assigned all the work. Pawar had always given him a lot of space and on occasions, even files relating to very important subjects were first sent to him for his comments before they reached Pawar. Thomas is a Nehru/Gandhi loyalist which makes Pawar's faith in him even more complex.

Thomas is also a prolific writer and has authored nine books in Malayalam, including one on Sonia Gandhi. His tenth will be out next week and is titled Order, Order, Order. It is an anthology of the Lok Sabha under different presiding officers where he has reportedly spared none. This seems to be a message for the no-work grumbling ministers. If there is no work, give vent to it by writing a book instead of writing to the Prime Minister, which is what Gurudas Kamat and K.Muniappa did. That set them off even worse as Mamata Banerjee and A.Raja took away whatever they were even doing.
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"VIPs visiting Tihar Jail"


Tihar Jail is being visited by a number of VIPs and many are staying there. It was Kiran Bedi in 1994 who won the Magsaysay Award for making Tihar Jail a kind of rehabilitation centre.

It all started with A.Raja going there and a whole lot of high-profile politicians/industrialists became his neighbours.

It is said that they have been asking for TV sets to watch their trials in court, morning papers to get the latest news and also computers.

It is said that Kalmadi and others have been asking for facilities such as making local and STD calls. Only if the DMK had realized all this and then they were making announcements of distributing colour TV sets to the voters, they could have donated some to the Tihar Jail also. Only if A.Raja had known his future and Kanimozhi's future, he would have made sure that facilities had been put in place for them and their partners in crime in jail. In situations like this though cops posted from your area can be of great help. But A.Raja did start the trend of orthopaedic mattress in Tihar. These men who lived a life of comfort have been complaining of backaches, so Shahid Balwa, A.Raja, Suresh Kalmadi and many others have now got orthopaedic mattresses.

The main problem is communicating with the outside world so they are looking for new excuses every day to be in touch with their families and lawyers.

It is said that some have even started writing their biography/book in jail. You never know you might have a great novel tomorrow from Tihar by one of the highfliers there.

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