"Time for Congress to put its house in order"
As the page3 chatterati are busy discussing the various scams in the country. The Congress leaders are trying to get their house in order. At the moment their major problem seems to be “Jaganmohan Reddy” from Andhra. People are wondering, whether he is a real threat to the Congress or is he going to fade away like Kuldeep Bishoni of Haryana. There is a strong resemblance between the two. Kuldeep’s father was a Congress veteran; Bhajan Lal and Jagan’s father YSR were at one time indispensable for the congress. Kuldeep has always displayed a burning desire and impatience to become the Chief Minister of Haryana. Jagan seem to be going the same way. His brashness is there for all to see. The father’s of both the young men have had a history of rebellion. Which the son’s have inherited. The Congress hopes that Andhra in the end will go the Haryana way. Hooda has won over Kuldeep’s supporters and the new Chief Ministers of Andhra will hopefully poach into Jagan’s support base. Making personal attacks to the Gandhi family is not always a very good idea and the Congress will not easily forget that.
"M P’s make the best of both worlds"
Our Member’s of Parliament are on a holiday mood. And all together in the capital nowadays, its party time. They go to parliament for an hour in the morning and then they have their own programs for the day. Some take rounds of various ministers for their constituency work; some are seen lunching together with friends at famous joints. The BJP leaders use this time effectively discussing their next agenda on how to create a pitch on various corruption issues in the country. But, Last weak all MP’s across party lines were united and together to welcome film actor Aamir Khan to the parliament. This actor belongs to a group called “Citizen Alliance” that generates public awareness on malnutrition. He met the Prime Minister, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi too. Aamir has always been known to take up social issues effectively. Aamir through his various films like Tara Zameen Par, Peepli Live has highlighted these issues, of concern. If this has anything to do with the actor’s campaign for Oscar for Peepli Live then it’s a good start. The movie and the issue highlighted farmer’s suicide and the issue on poverty at the grass root level in India. Aamir Khan got all the attention of the parliamentarians cutting across party lines. The holiday mood of our MP’s continuing. It’s a good time for some of the MP’s as it is a kind of a paid holiday as they go around checking new malls and eating joints in town. In the evening too they are busy as they end up dining in some MPs house together. At the cost of ex-checkers it’s a shame that the deadlock is of no value to our members of parliament.
"Anish kapoor, the global artist"
The return home of mega star artist Anish kapoor exceeded expectations even for someone of his stature. Sonia Gandhi choose to inaugurate the event. That itself pitched the showing at the level that most artist can only dream off. Besides that the cultural secretary and worthies from the British Government and of course the MD’s did the necessary genuflection. Mrs. Gandhi used the platform to highlight the fact that the Indian cities need to focus more on public art, not just from gigantic figures like Anish but, also from best of local talent in our country. Indian born Anish Kapoor, even by the attention and reverence he got locally. Staunchly see himself as a global artist with strong sense of origin rather than any singular sense of identity, having over the last few decades. The UK’s most favored artist in residence. His gigantic sculptures evoke strong emotions in the view and he has reason to be proud that his message has been cut out nationality and even age groups. Now soon Anish’s show is travelling to Bombay. A great welcome for the hero of art.
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