Seems ages since I blogged and as usual a myriad things happened serious and hilarious, joyous and distasteful, interesting and banal and life moves on though I keep saying ( monologues to be frank) that we are the prime movers and that we are the ones who should move. Hmmm! And of course I keep justifying and rationalizing about the paucity of time while at the same time sermonising (grabbing every odd chance passing by) about the very same thing. Hypocrisy at its best I presume. Seems I have been induling a trifle more pulling legs and a bit or sarcastic humor, of course passing at as banter and persiflage. No idea what people say at my back. I have a sort of prestiment that the number of people who would like to strangulate me or do something akin to that is on the ascendancy.

Pramod Mahajan finally succumbed to the bullets today. John Kenneth Galbraith passed away a few days earlier. Thamizh nadu is witnessing unprecedented theatrics now. I am an incorrigable optimist and I am inclined to believe that our politicians are good in heart and that they are very considerate and humane. The sun is scorching the people of TN and literally baking them, our beloved finance minister may use his ingenuity and will even impose some tax on temperature and then he can collect an enormous amount of revenue which he can use it to service the fantastic and mind boggling promises the political parties are coming out every day. MK came out with rice at rs.2/kg and JJ ridiculed and poo poohed it in the most contemptuous and sarcastic manner only possible for her and which can be superseded only by her haugtiness, arrogance and mendaciousness. Vaiko the new joker picked up the threades and poured scorn and emptied buckets of slime only to be rendered speechles and thunderstruck a few days later when JJ startled even the dead by offering 10 kgs or rice free. MGR would be turning or rather spinning in his grave. MK vowed to put a color idiot box in every room of the state whether they have electricity or not and if they have whether its supplied for more than a few hours or not. What a vow indeed and now we move to the next comic scene. JJ comes out with 4 grams of gold for the thaali for poor brides. Now TN is shining like a supernova and the world has woken from its slumber. TN has not got a 440000 volts zip zapping the state in the 40+C heat and is electrified beyond description. Probably a whole betting racquet is going on as to what sort of comic opera is in the offing and what will be the largess. I think it would be a roaring one raking hundreds of crores and who know they me even make the irish sweepstakes pale into insignificance. The TN folks who are sweltering in the heat, without power and groaning under the yolk of chidambaram's service taxes have a nice comedy film scripted by a seasoned writer and a consummate actress and we are roaring with laughter eagerly awaiting for the next goofiest offer and more interestingly their rational, logical, reasonable and feasible methods of achieving it. No one should ask why they did not do it when they were/are in power. What a tamashaa!!