The first take was a disaster, having failed to evoke the fans’ hysteria as used to happen. The second take, yesterday, is an apology. The Actor known for his speed on screen appears to have lost his silken touch off it. The blasts that ravaged Kovai last Saturday continue
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About sixty precious lives lost. Almost two hundred injured, some maimed for life. And BJP leader L.K Advanini has a miraculous escape as providence delayed his programme thereby saving him certain death. The sordid tale does no end there, as riots, arson inpting take over and the city Kovai reels under an orgy of violence for the umpteenth time in the last few months.
In the curtain raiser to this electoral circus on show, I had mentioned that buffoonery is not the sole preserve of the clowns and even serious players could at times offer comic relief. One such player has now obliged us.
No doubt the hands that murdered Rajiv have been brought to book. But then these hands were no more than mere robots, programmed to kill and in the process even destroy themselves, if necessary.
None of the twenty six convicted belongs to the DMK. The DMK stands exonerated.
So goes the Chief Minister’s refrain. The master script writer that he is,
Poll time is fun time. And on show at the Theatre of the Absurd, which is what India, that is Bharath, is, this Circus promises to be a whole-some entertainer. And as with all Circuses, while the main players slog it out at great risk….
She came, she saw but we are not sure if she conquered. Sonia, now Soniaji in chaste European English did, however, impress us in her capacity as Rajiv’s widow if not as the sole torch bearer of the Congress campaign. She took us all through a painful walk down the memory lane to 21 May 1991,
These days history doesn’t take much time to repeat itself. The entry of Sonia Gandhi into the electoral fray and the continuation of TMC’s alliance with the DMK
‘I told you so’, says Karunanidhi. ‘There was never any doubt’, says Moopanar. Same team, same spirit, cries Karunanidhi. Amen, says the TMC leader. ‘Moopanar and I will discuss’ claims a relieved DMK chief. ‘Karunanidhi is the leader and so he alone will decide’, avers a subdued Moopanar.