'Kidding Around' with the Aam Aadmi

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 A few stray thoughts  about  the week gone  by (all ‘almost’ my own ):         

Anita Advani who claims to be the late Rajesh Khanna’s paramour and live-in-partner during the last few years of his life, has stated in court that R.K had first kissed her when she was only 13. This she says started to get her sexually attracted to Rajesh Khanna, also known popularly as ‘Kaka’.

Well, that was a long time back and  Kaka was then a superstar, so you can’t really blame her for falling for him. But very recently another 13 yr old girl from Kerala complained to cops  that she had been repeatedly raped by her father, uncle and a 15 yr old brother over a period of 2 yrs.                                                                                                                           

Then there is this 11 year old girl from Aurangabad, in Maharashtra who has complained that her in-laws are not allowing her to attend school. Yes “in-laws”! It so happens that this child was married off six months ago by her impoverished parents .  

In Jaipur , one class 7 student lost both his eardrums as a consequence of repeated slapping by his school teacher.                                               

Another student went and shot his ex-tuition teacher who, 5 yrs earlier, had caught him smoking and informed the boy’s father. 

Yet another man from delhi  shot  a girl , who it seems had dared to try and stop him from peeing on the wall of her house.   

Our country proudly celebrated Childrens Day recently. These stories push me to ponder about the state of childcare in India and the mind set of the ‘common man’.

Arvind Kejriwal seems well versed with the headlines. He has very cleverly named his party  “Aam Aadmi party” (AAP). The Congress immediately took objection to this; claiming that the “Aam Aadmi’” term, belongs to them since the year 1885 !!!    

Maybe Robert Vadra’s claiming of the term , via his ‘mango people’ quote, has brought about this ownership to the Congress.

Meanwhile BJP has gone on a ‘suspending’ spree . Last week they suspended among others, Ram Jethmalani & Sukhdev Singh Namdhari from the  party, while Nitin Gadkari continues to play party president .

The Shiv-Sena on the other hand, organised a Palghar bandh to protest against the suspension of a couple of policemen. The cop’s had, reportedly, wrongfully used the draconian act 66A of the I.P.C.  in the arrest of the two adolescent Palghar girls.

Here are some other stray shockers : On the subject of Tendulkar’s much in demand retirement after an extremely long  string of failures, the BCCI  have assured the public that Sachin Tendulkar will ‘bounce back’. 

Anil  Kumble  has bellowed “ How can anybody else decide the timing of retirement of “a man who has played 192 test matches, scored 34000 runs and scored a 100 centuries!”                           

I get a ‘sneaky’ feeling they want Tendulkar to complete an unprecedented 200 test matches !!                                                                      

Now for the biggest ‘shocker’ : Ram Gopal Varma is making  a film on the terrorist attack of 26/11 in Mumbai. No, that is not the shocker: RGV has announced that all the profits made by his film would go to the 26/11 victim’s families.

Wait for the real shocker. Mr. Ram Gopal Varma believes (after his last dozen odd films bombing at the box-office) that his next  film is going to make a ‘profit’ ! 

 

--by Manu