Sunday, March 6, 2011

The Tribune-Chatterati-Jan.24th.2011

"Cabinet changes cosmetic"
The much awaited cabinet reshuffle has come and gone. The cosmetic change done in this musical chair act has left the people in the corridors of power wondering what the need was for the shuffle. Drastic decisions like dropping M.S. Gill for incompetency should have been taken. The corrupt and those with liaisons with big business houses should have been dropped. The intellectual lot in Delhi are wondering why they were just shifted around. Tall leaders like Vir Bahadur Singh have been allocated portfolios of public interest, much to his advantage. Deliverance and capabilities need to have been taken into consideration. They could have adjusted the articulate and deserving faces like Manish Tiwari. One wonders whether now in the AICC reshuffle if people from the states would be roped in. The Prime Minister does not seem to have faired well in this exercise. There are some ministers who have paralysed their ministries. It seems that talented people are being kept out of party affairs. This is discouraging and demolarising the common Congress workers. The Congress men are a worried lot and they should be. Tough steps will have to be taken to improve the UPA 2 image. Otherwise they will have to pay heavily in the next session and elections.
In this interesting shuffle of the same pack, the Prime Minister has disturbed the vastu proceeding of many ministers' offices. Some were so sure of not being disturbed that the feng shui and vastu gurus were working overtime in the ministerial offices and homes. Well, it clearly does not seem to have worked. The alliance partners are now getting ready to bargain on seats with Mamata in West Bengal and the DMK in Chennai. Hence, no claim for new ministers' berths so that it will give them more power on seat-sharing.

"Underdogs? Not quite"
Delhi's bar scene is vibrant and alive, but all rather new. With the liberal licensing policy, new bars are competing for business and wooing the young and the restless.
Witnessing the soft opening of a hugely spacious brand new sports bar imaginatively called "Underdogs" was a pleasure. Since most bars celebrate champions, this is by design, as its very name suggests, meant to be a different kind of space.
Kohilika Kohli, the young US-educated architect has interpreted the theme boldly with sweeping sports hoardings celebrating the plethora of sporting underdogs who have made it to the list of the greats.
Imaginative design combined with operational efficiency and aesthetic interiors made for a great opening party that started early and wound up in the early morning hours.
From the huge space has been carved out into several multiple spaces that will allow the bold and the beautiful to swill their beers in comfort and semi-privacy. "Underdogs" is a venture of the entrepreneurs running the successful "Crepes and More" in Khan Market.
A guest list of the city's who's who, from diplomats to page 3 people and swish Delhi royalty, experienced the unique flavour of the bar that celebrates an ethos that is not Delhi's norm.

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