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  • Ladies who tea

    Birthday Leftovers
    Birthday Leftovers (Photo credit: yvestown)

    Life completes a full circle. When we were little girls the only entertainment we were allowed to go to were birthday parties which were generally always tea parties. Of course we were never served tea but since we were out from 4-6, it was generally referred to as a tea party. Soon we graduated to school socials, birthday parties, jam sessions, dance/disco parties (as they were referred to), then dinner parties and finally lunch parties.

    But now when most of us have developed appetites smaller than our waist lines, we have gone back to meeting for tea – after we’ve done with our afternoon siestas and when all we really do is catch up on  some conversation over a cup of tea.

    So life has truly completed a full circle when we’ve once again begun socialising over a cup of tea!

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  • Congress Grass – Time to be weeded out

    In the mid 60’s when my father was posted to Pune’s Military Hospital as a Dermatologist, he noticed that several of the patients had a funny kind of rash which they only developed when they were posted to Pune. On close examination and careful documentation, he established a link between the rash and a weed called Parthenium hysterophoros a weed which was hitherto unknown to the Indian sub-continent but introduced through the largesse of the PL480 program under which the US exported tonnes of wheat to the starving Indians. Unfortunately they also exported seeds of this weed which was instantly dubbed Congress Grass because it was so difficult to eradicate.

    This weed is aptly named because like its namesake, the Congress Party is so deeply entrenched in our system that it is truly hard to weed out. I am totally disgusted by its Ad campaign on TV – touting progress to farmers, empowerment to women, electricity to every village and other lies – I mean they were in power for most of the time and they had promised these things every time. What were they doing all this while and why should we believe them now? Honestly even the haze of alcohol, the promise of my own house or even a mere sari or computer will not tempt me to press the button for the Hand that doesn’t give but only takes.

    It is high time we weed out this Congress that not only causes a rash of scams, ineffectiveness and nepotism but perpetuates a rule of dynasty and hypocrisy.

    The time to weed out the Congress has come.

    Cast your vote!

  • From National Circus to Family Feud

    For many years I wondered why the Congress party kept its fellow Indians in the Dark Ages with a complete lack of transparency and secrecy shrouding the only Indian family in this populous country by not allowing television into this country. After all it was well known that TV was a popular tool of mass education and also an effective family planning device ( yes, I kid you not, this was one of the reasons for the Indian economy’s dismal performance according to our Text Book of  Development Economics ).  It was only Indira Gandhi’s desire for the her countrywomen to admire her wonderful collection of handloom sarees that prompted her to allow colour TV not only in the city of Delhi but also the entire country!

    But like every other Pandora’s Box, this idiot box proved that Indians are not truly idiotic and even though they lapped up Mahabharata on Sunday after Sunday, and Ghar ghar ki Kahani, TV truly demystified not only Indian politicians and celebrities but  made the people aware of the great scams that they were made to suffer under the guise of development, progress and national unity.

    Last evening’s TV fare –  the Gandhi family spat which we all know is the greatest Mahabharat of modern India and a mother’s passionate plea to save “her” country from irreparable harm by those who don’t understand  India as well as the family does, coming in the wake of disclosures of Sanjay Baru’s  ineffective PM have only served to remove the blinkers from the eyes of the Indian public. Of course there are those who refuse to shift loyalties and still believe in the Congress and its ideology even though it means promoting “Pasta for Nashta” ( but then in a Democracy we are all free to have our own choice ) but recent TV viewing has shown that what was formerly a National Circus has now degenerated into a pure and simple Family Feud.

    Long live the family! Long live India!

    Please cast your vote.

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