MICHAEL SLATER ENDS UP WITH EGG ON HIS FACE........

Was this a "tongue in cheek" comment; a slip of the tongue or then a shrewd; calculated and contrived move to shorn Virat Kohli of some of his newly acquired sheen and bravado.........
Former Australian opener Michael Slater who has been donning a commentator's hat for the best part of the last decade or so "inadvertently" referred to up and coming Hindi film actress Ms. Anushka Sharma as "present" Indian skipper Virat Kohli's better half during the course of a commentary stint on the final day of the Melbourne boxing day test match between the two teams........
A timely whisper in his ears by one of channel nine's producers saw a much chastened and contrite Slater rushing to make amends for his faux pas by attributing the same to a "slip of the tongue" and put the record straight by thereafter referring to Ms. Sharma as the Indian skipper's (what with Dhoni's ignonimous departure) fiancee and "future" wife.........
As for the "deeply in love" and "mad about each other" couple; Mr. Slater's gaffe was best brushed off with a bashful smile and the utter contempt and disdain the uncalled for gaffe deserved.........
All's well that ends well in Virat and Anushka's land of romantic dreams and lovey dovey dawns and evenings and the dapper and dashing couple couldn't simply be bothered to issue a rejoinder or clarification about the present state of their much discussed; disseminated and debated relationship; notwithstanding the inconsequential Michael Slater's of this world........

IS MONEY MORE PRECIOUS THAN A LOVING MOTHER.........

Certain events and occurrences do really make you wonder whether you are indeed living/existing in a present day land that is proudly marching towards the next century or then a country where occultists and murderous superstitions still rule the roost.......
65 year old Budhabai Dore a life long resident of Mokhada in Maharashtra's Thane district was allegedly bludgeoned to death in the wee hours of December 30; 2014 after her very own two sons more than willingly consented to "sacrifice" both their mother and sister in an effort to usher in the ever elusive prosperity and wealth the two of them coveted............
According to Nashik Police sources; the two brothers Kashinath and Govind Dore who are currently cooling both their heels as well as murderous tendencies in police custody along with eight others surreptitiously consulted Bachchi Bai Narayan Khadke; a woman occultist with famed/alleged "divine" powers on the morning of December 29 on the advice of their sister Rahibai Pingle as they were extremely perturbed and piqued by their meagre existence and wanted to lay their hands on the much desired riches and prosperity.........
As desired by the two brothers; the famed/renowned occultist showed them the way out of their sorry predicament and assured them that untold riches and wealth would come their way if they "sacrificed" both their mother as well as sister without any further ado........
As desired by the occultist; Kashinath and Govind Dore made their way to Bachchi Bai's den of vice in the Take-Harsh tribal dominated tehsil of Maharashtra's Nashik district in the wee hours of December 30 and combined their might with Khadke and successfully bludgeoned Budhabai to death while Rahibai managed to flee the site of her mother's murder before a similar fate could befall her..........
The brother's then proceeded to gouge out their mother's eyes and buried her body at a rather secluded and isolated spot within the village according to the express orders of the occultist; in the meanwhile a horrified and exhausted Rahibai made her way to the residence of Bhagwan Madhe; a local social worker and spilled the beans about the macabre fate that had befallen her gullible and trusting mother........
Though initially taken aback; Bhagwan Madhe somehow managed to keep his wits about him and proceeded to file a police complaint against the occultist and two murderous siblings with Rahibai in tow; acting with surprising alacrity and remarkable agility; the local police firstly swooped down upon the occultist's dwelling and took her into custody within a mere matter of minutes..........
They then proceeded to exhume the elderly ladies body and sent the same for a post mortem to the local government hospital; later that afternoon (at around 1:30 pm or so); they arrested the two brothers from a local watering hole where they were celebrating the end of their days of penury; the trio were then produced before a judicial magistrate at around 3:30 pm or so and the legal luminary remanded the trio to police custody until January 5;2015...........
Cases under all the applicable sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Maharashtra Prevention and eradication of Human Sacrifice and other inhuman; evil; Aghori and other such practices and Black ,Magic Act;2013 have been registered/booked against the devious trio who put a few wads of paper money above their loving and caring mother who had fed and nurtured them for this long..........

DOWN BUT NOT OUT..........

Two batsmen both struck down by ferocious bouncers; while one emerged relatively unscathed with nothing more than a fractured cheekbone; the other Australian batsman Phillip Hughes succumbed to the injury sustained by him during the course of a domestic Sheffield Shield game.......
Pakistani opener Ajmal Shehzad who was felled by a Corey Anderson bouncer during the course of the second test match of a recently concluded three test match series between the Pakistanis and Kiwis sustained superficial facial injuries and a fractured cheekbone as a result and the dapper opener who has since recovered and is back in his assigned role has been thanking the almighty that he escaped relatively unscathed..........
Recounting the friendship struck with Phillip Hughes during the course of the 2007-08 under 19 Cricket World Cup; Shehzad said that he was chastened by Hughes untimely and abrupt demise and has been thanking the almighty for the blessings showered on him ever since........
I was lucky that I was struck on the cheekbone and nose area while my mate Hughes was struck on the extremely sensitive and vulnerable area between the neck and the head; another inch here or there and I could have been laid low for the best part of a calendar year and even more according to the doctor who treated my fractured cheekbone..........
Shehzad was quoted in a leading Pakistani sports magazine saying that none other than him was in a better position to understand what the Hughes family was going through as he and his family had gone through a similar though not equally heart rending experience and were much more chastened and wizened after the same...........
I have begun to value the second lease of life bestowed on me by the almighty Allah and have realised that it is up to me to make the best use of the opportunities and blessings accorded to me; I was a brash; headstrong; argumentative and cocky young man earlier and though I remain cocky and supremely confident; I have shed my brashness and short temperedness and become that much more patient and accepting.............
Eagerly awaiting the moment when he will don the Pakistan colours once again after his recuperation and rehabilitation; Shehzad is now doubly determined to shine in the 2015 World Cup and make it his very own........

EPITOME OF COURAGE AND DARING.........

Never ever underestimate the power of the common Indian woman as she is endowed with the traits of Durga; Kali; Santoshi Maa and tonnes of courage and pluck besides........
A wannabe chain snatcher learnt this the hard way in Mumbai's Kandivali east area on Sunday evening when he tried to snatch the chain adorning the shapely neck of a doughty and indomitable 48 year old woman who caught hold of his jacket and pulled him off the motorcycle on which he was riding pillion just after he had made a furtive attempt to snatch her chain...........
Two alert and conscientious traffic police constables who happened upon the spot on hearing her cries for help then chased the wannabe chain snatcher who had abruptly been pulled out of the bike and successfully managed to nab him before handing him over to their colleagues at the Samta Nagar police station who in turn booked/registered a robbery case against the assailant and launched a manhunt for his comrade in arms......
According to eyewitnesses; the complainant/doughty woman Sunita Suvarna had just alighted from a luxury car with two other woman friends on the north bound stretch and was making her way down the road when the motorcycle borne chain snatchers arrived on the scene and proceeded to pull of the voluminous chain adorning Suvarna's dainty neck..........
Though initially startled and taken aback; the doughty Suvarna showed both the pluck and courage of mind to hang onto the jacket borne arm of the pillion rider who has since been identified as 32 year old Aziz Jaffer Sayyad and managed to pull him off the back with a hearty tug.......
She immediately raised a commotion and the two traffic police constables who arrived on the scene on hearing her cries for help chased Aziz who was trying to make good his escape from the scene on foot and successfully nabbed him after pursuing him for a good 400 metres or so..........
Sayyad who is a resident of Mumbai's Amboli area has since been remanded to police custody till January 2;2015 by a judicial magistrate and the arresting authorities are trying to verify whether he was involved in similar attempts/instances in the past besides making all out efforts to nab his accomplice who is still at large..........

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT.........

Remaining steadfast in the face of rapidly growing and increasingly violent protest against the Aamir Khan starrer "PK" censor board chairperson/chief Leela Samson has said that there is no chance of any scenes being deleted or chopped off from the film no matter what.......
Maintaining her stance; Leela Samson further added that recalling or summoning an already released film and subjecting it to further cuts and adjournments in the face of protests by fringe elements and fundamentalist groups would only serve to set the wrong precedent and open up a pandora's box that would never ever be closed or capped in the future........
The Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani co-produced and Rajkumar Hirani written and directed "PK" was released worldwide on December 19 and has since become the first past the much coveted 200 crore mark in the annals of the Hindi film industry but also succeeded in stirring up a hornet's nest and raising the heckles of these fringe elements who have since gone to town with their vociferous and increasingly violent protests against the film that supposedly hurts and insults "Hindu" sentiments.......
Summing up the situation succinctly and buttressing her point of view Ms. Samson said that "every film may end up insulting the so called sentiments of some religious dispensation/group or the other and we cannot keep removing or deleting scenes from already released films on this and any other pretexts as doing so would only serve to embolden such lumpen elements and violate a gross violation of the right to freedom of expression expressly guaranteed by the Constitution"..........
"Both the censor board as well as the appellate tribunal have viewed "PK" and found nothing objectionable in the film and hence we cannot recall or censor the film any further as the same has already been certified for public viewing and released to an unprecedented response worldwide"; Ms. Samson concluded...........
Putting in my two cents worth; let me say that I have seen "PK" and found that the "film of the year" has been unsparing and unstinting in it's principled stance against against all organised forms of religion and the ills or maladies of the same; "PK" does take an unequivocal stance against the so called godmen who have caused irreparable damage to the moral fibre of this glorious country with their immoral and dastardly criminal acts and tendencies and deserve to be condemned; ostracised and banished from our midst instead of venerated; respected and placed on thoroughly undeserving pedestals..........
So kindly cultivate/develop a sense of humour and irony and more importantly learn to laugh at oneself as "PK" is a work of art that needs to be appreciated and enjoyed instead of being vilified and demonised; come on folks grow up and get a life instead of indulging in amateurish acts that only serve to make you a laughing stock in the eyes of the rest of the world...........

AAP VOLUNTEERS LAUNCH PROTEST AGAINST PARTY'S CANDIDATE........

In what must indeed come as a first; Aam Aadmi party volunteers from the national capital's Sangam Vihar locality have steadfastly refused to endorse the party's official candidate from the area for the forthcoming assembly elections and launched widespread protests against him........
Vehemently opposing the party's decision to persist with former MLA Dinesh Mohaniya; the leader of the group of volunteers opposing his candidature alleged that Mohaniya had failed to honour even one of the numerous promises that he made to the unsuspecting and gullible electorate during the course of the last assembly elections..........
They even went to the extent of saying that Mohaniya was a blot on the Aam Aadmi party and was not representing the hopes; aspirations and prospects but only looking to further his political interests and buffer his bank balance by striking a surreptitious or behind the scenes deal with the powers that be within the Delhi unit of the BJP.........
Vowing to leave no stone unturned in their concerted effort to ensure that Mohaniya bites the dust at the political hustings; these volunteers added that they would now launch a door to door campaign in both the Sangam Vihar as well as adjoining Seemapuri area if the AAP bigwigs did not give into their demand and change the candidate from the Sangam Vihar area forthwith...........
One only hopes and prays that volunteers belonging to other mainstream political parties would take a leaf out of the AAP volunteers book and voice their protest against corrupt; immoral and wanton candidates rather than repeating the often touted acceding to the party line excuse that has become passe in today's changed and transformed political milieu.........

SAEED AJMAL WITHDRAWS FROM PAKISTAN 2015 WORLD CUP SQUAD........

In what must come as a huge dampener to their chances of annexing the Cricket World Cup 2015 after a rather lengthy 23 year hiatus; iconic off spinner Saeed Ajmal has voluntarily withdrawn his name from the proposed Pakistani squad for the premier ODI tournament........
According to Pakistani Cricket Board (PCB) sources; Ajmal voluntarily withdrew from the proposed team as his chances of getting his supposedly "illegal" bowling action (his arm was bending well above the allowed 15 degree mark at the time of delivery) validated and legitimised before the onset of the tournament were next to nil and any hasty action taken in this regard might have caused the premature end of his cricketing future.........
The 37 year old Ajmal will in the interim continue the remedial work on his bowling action under the eagle eye and tutelage of former offie Saqlain Mushtaq and keep plying his trade in the Pakistani domestic circuit until he musters up the courage and gumption to have his bowling action scrutinised by an ICC recognised or mandated testing facility.........
Throwing further light on the imbroglio; a senior PCB functionary said that they did not deem it wise or sagacious to even take the merest chance of getting Ajmal's contentious action tested as the latest reports emanating from the rehabilitation facility seemed to suggest that Ajmal was still bending his bowling arm well beyond the permissible 15 degree limit at the moment of delivery even after nearly three months of remodelling and rehabilitation..........
He also said that the PCB was more than aware of the unpalatable and unpleasant fact that showing any undue haste in this regard and pushing Ajmal to take the mandated tests (on his bowling action) prematurely could have caused interminable harm to his dwindling career as he might have well been suspended from playing all formats of the game for a one or two year period if he had flunked the tests on his disputed bowling action........
One may do well to recall the fact that Ajmal who has emerged as Pakistan's numero uno spinner and leading light in all three formats of the glorious game for the last three and a bit cricket seasons was banned from bowling in international cricket after failing the ICC test in September 2014 and has been undergoing remedial and rehabilitative measures ever since..........
Pakistan has to name it's final 15 man squad for the premier cricket tournament on or before January 7; 2015 and is currently moping about what with a similar sceptre hanging on batting all rounder Mohammed (the professor) Hafeez who was banned for a suspect action last month........

ICONIC POST OFFICE CAFE LAUNCHED IN DELHI..........

The quixotic; exotic and somewhat eccentric Post Office Cafe launched it's pan India operations by launching it's first signature cafe in the national capital's bustling Rajouri Garden area..........
Many kindred; adventurous and simply curious souls frequented the opening of the cafe on Friday evening (December 26;2014) and were spotted clicking selfies in the quixotic and post office like interiors of the cafe and seemed to be having a good time and letting their hair down while feasting on more than few gastronomical delights........
Throwing further light on the thought behind the design and concept of this theme cafe; grand chef; entrepreneur and director Jasline Chadha said that the somewhat unusual; nostalgic and age old post office like atmosphere was their calling card and helped in evoking a feeling of nostalgia and need to reach out to loved one's in the hearts and minds of the customers/ visitors..........
Many a signature dish that is traditional yet attuned to today'd times and palates with a dash of innovation and deliberate planning awaits the discerning customer who is looking for an unforgettable gastronomic journey at a rather pocket friendly price what with Jasline and her dedicated team going the proverbial mile in an effort to conjure up culinary delights that will have you salivating for more and coming back time and again..........
The team behind the signature cafe believes in the dictum of being slow; steady and somewhat cumbersome and are more than optimistic about launching similar signature cafes in all the metro cities by spring 2017......

CRICKET ASSOCIATION OF NEPAL'S EXCEEDINGLY WARM GESTURE...........

In a rare; sentimental and heart warming gesture; the Cricket Association of Nepal has sent a proposal to the Australian Cricket Board beseeching them to provide them with one of prematurely deceased Aussie Batsmen Phillip Hughes bats; clothing article and cricket equipment so that the same could be carried atop the Everest and left there thereby immortalising him for posterity...........
In the same letter addressed to Cricket Australia Chairman Wally Edwards; the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) also clearly outlined it's plans to organise a 63 over a side league game and thereby immortalise the score on which the dashing Aussie batsmen was unconquered when a rapidly rising delivery cut short both his cricketing career and fledgling cricket career just when the two had begun blossoming........
Going one step further; the Cricket Association of Nepal also clearly delineated it's future plans to set up a cricket museum in Kathmandu within the next 2 years or so and said that the Hughes memorabilia would prove to be the foundation stone/bedrock for the same........
Praising and appreciating the Cricket Association of Nepal's gracious and thoughtful gestures; Edwards said that the Australian Cricket Authorities would certainly send across the desired articles belonging to Hughes at the earliest and even lend a helping hand to the Nepalese Board in organising the planned fixture as it could not think of a more befitting and noble gesture to immortalise Hughes place in the world's cricketing firmament for posterity/eternity........
One only hopes and prays that the Nepalese Cricket Board not only succeeds in it's noteworthy venture of immortalising Phillip Hughes memory and sterling exploits with the bat but also widely circulates the proceedings of the same so that the rest of the cricketing world takes note of the same and voluntarily steps forward to organise such events in the memory of the now departed Aussie batsman.........

YET ANOTHER FUTILE ATTEMPT MADE TO DERAIL A KEJRIWAL RALLY........

Arvind Kejriwal's political opponents surely seem to be be flabbergasted at his rapidly growing popularity and ability to gather crowds in a jiffy at his numerous public rallies what with their mindless and amateurish antics and attempts to jettison the same........
In the latest such attempt made at a rally addressed by Shri Kejriwal in the national capital region; yet to be identified miscreants hurled eggs and even went to the extent of trying to rig or then trip the power supply unit (generator) during the course of one such rally that was held in the Najafgarh area on Thursday evening.........
According to AAP activists and scores of bystanders; the futile attempt to thwart the rally by hurling eggs at Mr. Kejriwal and other senior Aam Aadmi Party functionaries only came a cropper as none of the eggs hurled at the stage hit their mark and if anything only served to strengthen the AAP leaderships resolve to storm back to power in the national capital.........
Taking the unsavoury developments in his stride with remarkable aplomb and studied nonchalance; Mr. Kejriwal sent out a veiled message to his political opponents to engage in works and activities that would serve to help people and thereby further their political interests (garner votes for them) instead of indulging in such childish acts that would only drive the electorate that much further away from them..........
According to eyewitnesses; two groups of miscreants abruptly appeared from behind the makeshift stage set up for the purpose and one of these groups started hurling scores of eggs at the stage that missed their mark by a wide margin while the second group tried their utmost to dampen the heady and intoxicating proceedings by throwing a metal chain into the generator that was supplying power to the stage and thereby succeeded in shutting off the power supply to both the stage as well as the public address system for a short period of time............
However all these churlish and nincompoopish attempts failed to dampen Mr. Kejriwal's enthusiasm and chutzpah and he continued on his merry way for the best part of the next 25 minutes or so taking pot shots at both the Congress as well as BJP in his inimitable style and beseeching people to usher in an AAP government with a resounding majority.......
Candidly admitting that resigning from the throne of power after a fleeting 49 day romance was a colossal or then mammoth mistake; Mr. Kejriwal said that he he had become that much wiser and sagacious after the incident and learnt an invaluable lesson about sticking onto the reins of power for as long as you can and by employing whatever methods you can..........
Vowing to fulfil all his yet to be fulfilled promises post haste; Mr. Kejriwal hoped and prayed that Delhiites would give him one more opportunity to serve them with all the power and wisdom at his might and thereby show the rest of the world what the Aam Aadmi can do if he puts his mind and soul into the act of governance and social service..........

RICHA CHADHA GIVES BACK MORE THAN SHE GETS..........

Women or rather actresses associated with/from the Hindi film industry certainly seem to be showing that they are indeed women of substance who will neither brook or then take any nonsense from all and sundry.......
Stormy petrel Richa Chadha; best known for her feisty portrayal as Bholi Punjaban in the 2013-14 hit flick Fukrey stood up for herself and gave her tormentors more than an earful; eyeful and lot's more during the course of one such film gathering in India's financial capital on Christmas day........
According to bystanders; the Tamanchey heroine was letting down her hair and enjoying herself to the hilt with a group of female friends at the said gathering when two seemingly inebriated gents happened upon the group and started passing increasingly lewd and bawdy remarks about Richa's physical attributes and somewhat different sartorial style........
Richa initially chose to ignore the two gent's increasingly intrusive and offensive overtures; but was forced to take matters in her own hand when one of the two gents rudely caught hold of her hand and posed for a few photographs without her permission or acceptance.........
A thoroughly disgusted and incensed Ms. Chadha firstly gave the two men an earful and subsequently caught hold of the collar of the gent who had posed for photographs when he started spewing the choicest expletives that were not only derogatory towards the women gathered there but also questioned their pedigree and parentage..........
Security personnel and the other menfolk at the gathering then caught hold of the two offending gents and led them outside the party's precincts using both force and persuasion while a now somewhat chastened Richa issued a statement urging menfolk to know and understand the considerable/yawning difference between public personalities and private property...........
She further went on to add that it had become increasingly necessary for Indian women to express their contempt and opposition to such unruly; wild and wanton behaviour as a continued failure to do so on part of the country's womenfolk would only serve to embolden such animals and encourage them to cross the limit every single time..........
Here's hoping that many a long suffering Indian woman would take a leaf out of Ms. Richa Chadha's book and make sure that they put such men (if they can deserve to be called that) in their rightful place every single time............

SANDY GORDON ALL SET TO REJOIN TEAM INDIA RANKS........

One more luminary seems all set to join the already burgeoning bandwagon of support staff members travelling with the Indian team on their tour down under...........
Only difference being that the gentleman in question happens to be a prominent sports psychologist who was instrumental in turning around the plummeting fortunes of the then Indian team led creditably by Sourav Chandidas Ganguly in circa 2003 and ensuring that it reached the finals of the 2003 World Cup............
Yes you did indeed hear or then read it right; the Indian team management is all set to rope in the services of renowned sports psychologist Sandy Gordon in an earnest effort to re-galvanise the rock bottom stock of team India and give it a renewed sense of purpose and hope........
According to team sources; Sandy Gordon will be joining the ranks of team India's support staff within the next day or two (during the course of the ongoing boxing day test match in Melbourne) and Gordon's prior experience of handling prickly Indian egos rather successfully during his previous stints with team India was the primary reason behind the BCCI mandarin's decision to avail of the services of the Perth based psychologist once again.........
Gordon has more than creditably handled both cricket as well as other sporting teams and individuals in the past and his luminous track record more than embellishes and upholds his credentials as the "gent with the proverbial Midas touch"............

MUCH ADO ABOUT PEANUTS (MOONGPHALI)...........

One always thought that matters could not get any worse within the echelons of the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA); but if this matter is indeed true; then this certainly takes the entire bakery rather than the proverbial cake...........
Trust the DDCA officials to keep the official grapevine going what with their noteworthy penchant of adding grist to the rumour mills with their mindless and nincompoopish antics that would put many a stand up comedian to shame; only matter being that they seem to have outdone themselves this time around and given the fourth estate rather crunchy titbits to chew upon........
Matters came to a head late Monday morning when a yet unnamed DDCA official (on Monday morning) was officially accused to have stolen packets of fried and roasted peanuts (moongphali) from the dressing room of the visiting Rajasthan cricket team during the course of the recently concluded Ranji Trophy fixture between the two teams at the national capital's iconic Feroze Shah Kotla cricket stadium..........
Rajasthan team manager; Vijendar Yadav who registered an official complaint on behalf of his team with the concerned authorities alleged that one Maqsood Khan who is said to be a minor DDCA official surreptitiously entered the Rajasthan team's dressing room without official sanction and walked out with the packets of peanuts that had been set aside for the team members during the first session of play on Monday morning..........
Maqsood who is said to be a long standing DDCA official and visiting team nets (practice sessions) co-ordinator only compounded matters further by getting into an exceedingly ugly and fractious fracas/scuffle with Manoj Choudhary; the DDCA's anti corruption official who was investigating the imbroglio on behalf of the DDCA on Tuesday evening..........
Infact; matters got so ugly and unruly that the Delhi police had to be summoned to sort out matters and the issue was well and truly sorted out late on Tuesday night after Khan tendered an unconditional apology to both Choudhary as well as the visiting Rajasthan cricket team profusely apologising for and expressing heartfelt regret at his rather unsavoury and inexplicable behaviour...........
Confirming the fact that a written complaint was indeed filed on behalf of the visiting Rajasthan team by him (Yadav) in accordance with the BCCI guidelines on corruption related issues; Yadav said that he was forced to do so as an unauthorised person had transgressed into the hallowed and highly restricted precincts of the visiting team's dressing room without sanction or permission and hence violated the BCCI guidelines pertaining to highly vexatious and contentious corruption related matters that have ruled the roost off late.........
Well; this crisis may have been tided over with the unconditional apology and public display of contriteness made by the now infamous Maqsood Khan; but one wonders whether the high and mighty within the BCCI ranks will consider it worth their while to rein in the cantakerous DDCA officials who seem well on their way towards becoming a law unto themselves........

FRIENDS SUCH AS THESE..........

Whoever needs enemies when one has friends such as these.......
Two so called friends of an 18 year old girl/young woman (one of whom happens to be a minor) allegedly sexually assaulted her after the successful and heady conclusion of her birthday celebrations in the national capital on the intervening night of December 22/23,2014.......
South Delhi police sleuths apprehended the two suspected assailants after the rape survivor made a telephone call to the Police Control Room at around 7:30 am or so on the morning of December 24; 2014; the survivor was aboard a R.K. Puram bound DTC bus when she made the call in question to the Police Control Room.........
In her telephonic complaint made to the police control room; the survivor alluded to the fact that one of the two accused youths invited her over to his home and abode in the national capital's Moti Bagh area on the evening of December 23; 2014 on the pretext of ushering in her birthday in grand style and the orphaned girl who has been brought up by close relatives readily accepted the invitation; least suspecting the gruesome fate that was about to befall her.........
While the rest of the friends/invitees to the said birthday party left the Moti Bagh premises; the birthday girl and her two assailants/rapists continued partying into the wee hours of the night and the marauding duo then took turns sexually assaulting the hapless girl as she was inebriated by then and hence unable to ward off their highly objectionable and unwelcome sexual overtures............
Following the registration of her police complaint early the next morning; the survivor was sent to the prestigious AIIMS for a detailed medical examinations that conclusively established the occurrence of rape and enabled the concerned police personnel to book cases under section 376 of the Indian penal code against the two accused..........
Lo and behold!!!; the Delhi police personnel entrusted with the responsibility of bringing both the culprits to book found the two accused firmly entrenched within the precincts of the house where the heinous crime was committed in the Moti Bagh area on the night of December 23; 2014; the minor accused who is supposedly around 17 years of age or so has since been produced before a juvenile justice board; while the second accused has been remanded to judicial custody until January 10; 2015 by a judicial magistrate............
Delhi Council for Women Chairperson; Barkha Singh condescended to meet this doughty rape survivor late in the morning on December 24; 2014 and entrusted the survivor to the care of an NGO who has more than willingly stepped forward to counsel and rehabilitate the orphan who has been staying with relatives in East Delhi for the last decade and more........
Like I mentioned earlier whoever needs enemies; when you have friends like/such as these............

SHANE WATSON FELLED BY BOUNCER DURING TEAM'S PRACTICE SESSION..........

Bouncers and the Australian batsmen surely seem to be hand in glove what with up and coming batsman Phillip Hughes losing his life after being felled by one such and veteran all rounder Shane Watson who is struggling valiantly to keep his place in the side falling prey to the same predilection during a practice session before the iconic boxing day test match slated to be held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from December 26 onwards..........
Out of favour fledgling paceman James Pattinson who is looking to find favour with the Aussie selectors sauntered into the Australian team's practice session newly sprouted beard and all and soon marked his run up as a woefully out of touch Watson requested him to let a few rip at full tilt...........
Lo and behold!!!! Pattinson more than paid heed to Watson's pleas as the third delivery delivery delivered by him turned out to be a steeling bouncer that struck a bewildered and befuddled Watson flush on the side of the helmet as he made a furtive attempt to evade the deadly delivery delivered in excess of 140 kmph...........
Shaken beyond belief; Watson firstly lay on the ground besides the team's batting nets while the team's concerned support staff attended to him with furtive urgency before making his way off into the pavilion while shaking his head in disbelief and consternation while on his way back to the team's dressing room..........
One may well remember the fact that the veteran all rounder was an integral part of the match in which the unfortunate Phillip Hughes lost his life and has been known to publicly admit that he was still trying to quell the demons who have taken to ruling his thought processes following his team mates premature demise............
Luckily for Watson the demonic delivery did little else apart from denting his helmet beyond repair and leaving him shaken and bewildered to the extent that he took no further part in the remainder of the training (net) session that proceeded towards it's logical conclusion without further incident............
A little later in the day; team wicket keeper Brad Haddin who happens to be one of Watson's closest mates in the team proceeded to inform gathered pressmen that all was fine with Watson and precautionary X rays had failed to reveal anything more than momentary concussion and a bump on the side of the head that was responding well to treatment..........
All may indeed be well in Watson's world for now; but there is no doubting the fact that he must surely be thanking his lucky stars; guardian angels and shooting of prayer after prayer in honour of the lord almighty..........

PUNJABIYAAN DI BALLE BALLE...........

Here's a fitting rejoinder for all those doubting Thomases who had written off the irrepressible Sardar Harbhajan Singh and dismissed him as a spent force........
Punjab Ranji Trophy skipper Harbhajan Singh and up and coming middle order batsman Gurkeerat Singh Mann smashed or rather notched up match winning fifties (50's) as a marauding Punjab side handily beat a doughty Maharashtra by three wickets in a crucial Group B encounter in Pune earlier this evening..........
Chasing an imposing 204 in 51 overs for an exceedingly rare outright victory; the men from the land of five rivers were tottering at a rather sorry looking 68/4 at one stage thanks to three rapid strikes by the strapping Maharashtrian medium pacer Samad Fallah who was bowling with his tail up and threatening to sweep Punjab under.........
Cometh the hour; cometh the saviour/s and team Punjab found it's saviours in the form of the swashbuckling Harbhajan and cool as ice Gurkeerat Mann who refused to be daunted by the supposedly terrifying spectacle of a rampaging Samad Fallah and combined their energies to put Punjab on the path to victory with an enterprising partnership of 83 of 75 balls that changed the entire complexion of the match in the batting of an eyelid.........
Though Harbhajan (50 off 54 balls) and the pied piper of Punjab Yuvraj Singh who batted at number 7 owing to a sore throat; flu and high fever fell in quick succession; Gurkeerat remained undaunted on a match winning 73 off 80 balls and only returned to the pavilion when his team had galloped past the post in a mere matter of 46.5 overs thereby notching up it's second outright victory in three matches...........
Following their second resounding defeat in three matches; last year's runners up Maharashtra continue to languish at the bottom of group B while Punjab on the other hand top the group with 15 points from three matches owing to two outright victories and an impressive first innings lead thus far...........
Punjab seems well on it's way to making the semi final or then knock out stages of India's premier domestic tournament for the umpteenth time while Maharashtra seems to be losing it's sheen as a power to reckon with owing to two spineless and utterly reprehensible performances on the trot............
Punjabiyaan Di Balle Balle Baaki Saare Thaley; Thaley..........

DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS..........

Husband and wife relationships will never ever be the same again if this one is indeed true and beyond all reasonable doubt........
A supposedly 22 year old woman on Thursday afternoon startlingly claimed that she was brutally sexually ravaged by her estranged husband and his two male accomplices/friends in a moving car in the national capital's Anand Vihar area on Wednesday evening.......
According to the statement filed by the alleged survivor before the area police; she was returning after a shopping spree in an East Delhi mall late on Wednesday afternoon when her husband and two male friends forcibly pushed her into a waiting car and then took turns at brutalising her within the now rapidly moving vehicle..........
The mayhem continued for the best part of three hours or so according to the survivor and only ended when the trio had firstly inserted two candles into her vagina and then thrown out the now profusely bleeding; semi-conscious and grievously injured woman out of the speeding car by the wayside.........
Continuing with her the minutest details of her harrowing ordeal; the doughty survivor alleges that her now estranged husband all the while kept repeating the phrase about the ordeal being due punishment for the perceived crime of reporting the atrocities committed by him and his family members on her before the police and other concerned authorities.........
Claiming that she had lost consciousness before being thrown out of the car; the young woman goes on to allege that she lay in an unconscious state for four hours or so by her reckoning and then contacted her family members and a nearby police patrol on regaining consciousness.........
Confirming the fact that cases had been filed against the absconding trio under all relevant and applicable sections of the Indian Penal Code and a manhunt had also been launched in order to apprehend them at the earliest; senior police officials maintained that they were perturbed and intrigued by the various discrepancies and variations in the account narrated by the young woman..........
According to a senior police officer; the woman in her narration/complaint had stated her age as 22 but her registered date of birth on her marriage certificate proves her age to be a little in excess of 26 years; she also claims that they were immediate neighbours in east Delhi's Ram Nagar area and had gotten married after a four year long romantic liasion a little over a year or so ago........
She further claims that she and her husband went their separate ways barely after a month or so after getting married on account of their disparate natures and endless quarrels between the two of them and subsequently began living separately in east Delhi's Shahdara area..........
What is even more baffling is the fact that the 22/26 year old lady had initiated divorce proceedings against her estranged husband and even gone to the extent of filing a kidnapping and attempt to murder case against her now supposedly absconding husband at neighbouring Ghaziabad's Vijay Vihar Police Station some three months or so ago; the senior police officer concluded..........
A case of sour grapes; imputing sinister ulterior motives where none exist; much ado about nothing or then the gospel truth; well I will let you draw your own conclusions as frankly I am just as flummoxed as you are by this one...........

YET ANOTHER NEEDLESS DEATH........

Utter lawlessness and mayhem certainly seem to have become the way of life in Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh.........
In the latest incident of mindless and senseless violence; a 65 year old female senior citizen was callously mowed down to death by two motorcycle borne assailants in Greater Noida's (Dadri) Tulsi Vihar area on Friday afternoon as the two youths were incensed by the fact that the woman's petty shop had run out of cigarettes.........
According to Greater Noida police sources; 65 year old Mishro Devi; a long term resident of the Bil Akbarpur area was filling in for her son who had proceeded to Bulandshahr on some urgent business and is survived by 5 sons and 3 daughters; what makes the Greater Noida police sleuths job that much more cumbersome is the fact that the two cold blooded assassins never took their helmets off even for a moment and hence are yet to be identified.........
At around 2:30 pm or son on the fateful Friday afternoon; the two motorcyclists stopped their bike in front of the said petty shop; one of them disembarked and walked upto the shop while the other remained astride the motorcycle; the first youth then proceeded to ask the victim for cigarettes and was incensed beyond words when the old lady informed him that she had run out of cigarettes; in a fit of rage he whipped out a revolver and shot at her from point blank range.........
While the first bullet struck Mishro Devi in the abdominal area; the second fatal bullet lodged in her head; the youth then fired two more bullets in the air to dissuade bystanders and others from intervening; the crowd rushed to Mishro Devi's aid as soon as the two motorcycle borne assailants had made good their escape and rushed her to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced brought dead on arrival.........
Prima facie; the senseless death of the elderly lady seems to be the result of a petty dispute gone wrong; but the area police are perturbed by the fact that the old lady in question owned a little more than 12.5 bighas of land in the vicinity and whether the seemingly insane murder was inextricably linked to her prized possession.........
Whatever the reason for the futile murder may be; there is no getting away from the fact that life has indeed become a pithy commodity in this land of 125 crore plus and the same can be snatched away for the most trivial and inane reasons.........

YOUNG INDIAN WOMAN BRUTALLY RAVAGED IN NEPAL...........

As if the ignominies; insults and ridicule borne by them within their own motherland were not enough of a burden; Indian women now fins themselves at the receiving end in neighbouring countries too........
According to reports emanating in certain sections of the Nepali media on Thursday evening; a Motihari (Bihar) based 20 year old Indian woman who reached Nepal to participate in the renowned Gadhimai festival was brutally ravaged and assaulted by a group of seven monsters who sexually exploited her for more than four hours on Wednesday evening..........
The doughty survivor who reached Nepal's southern Bara district on Wednesday morning to participate in the religious fervour and festivities; soon found herself at the receiving end when the afore mentioned group of hostiles firstly abducted her; then led her to a deserted and secluded area and finally compounded her misery by mercilessly gang raping her one by one.........
Luckily for the survivor; a Nepali police team who was patrolling the said area heard her heart rending screams for help and made a beeline towards the spot from where these hoarse and piteous cries seemed to be emanating...........
Acting with remarkable alacrity and swiftness; the Nepal police party; not only successfully freed the 20 year old woman from the clutches of her tormentors but also managed to nab 5 of them during the course of their actions........
All the five arrested men/rapists have been remanded to seven days police custody by a local court while the indomitable survivor is currently undergoing treatment at a medical cum rehabilitation facility run by the Nepali women and children service centre..............

SUNNY LEONE AS MAMTA KULKARNI........

If the Hindi film industry grapevine is to be believed; sultry seductress Sunny Leone might well see herself donning the garb/avatar of the now infamous 90's bombshell Mamta Kulkarni in a soon to be launched film on her life and times........
Ace photographer Jayesh Sheth who artistically shot the supposedly "topless" photograph of Mamta Kulkarni that brought her both fame and ridicule in equal measure will helm/direct the film that is slated to go on the floors in April/May 2015.........
Confirming the news about the venture being on; Sheth says that Sunny's visage flashed across his vision as soon as this project was offered to him by the production house; on being queried as the reasons behind the same; Jayesh says that Sunny bears an uncanny resemblance to Mamta Kulkarni and is a heady concoction of a sensuous body and extremely vulnerable face........
Sheth also disclosed that thought he was yet to approach Sunny formally with a proposal; he was more than optimistic about getting her on board and would approach her with a bound script as soon as he finished tweaking his original storyline about a struggling actress who makes it big on her own steam before fading away into oblivion because of fresher and more vivacious faces and her own faults and idiosyncracies..........
Mamta and her husband are currently cooling their heels in a Kenyan prison after being arrested on drug running related charges if reports emanating from the country are to be believed and the script is undergoing the required changes keeping this unwelcome and abrupt development in mind; Sheth signs off.........
If this flick even delivers half of what Jayesh Sheth promises; then it surely will do wonders to Sunny's fledgling career and end up giving her career the much needed boost that it requires...........

ONE MORE WOMAN FALLS PREY TO THE AGE OLD MARRIAGE TRICK.........

It may all seem a little absurd and ridiculous at first; but if the same does indeed have even an iota of truth in it; then it is indeed cause for concern.........
A bedraggled; dazed; mystified and somewhat incoherent 21 year old woman lodged a complaint at the national capital's Vasant Kunj (one of the poshest localities in the national capital) late on Tuesday night against her male friend alleging that this so called friend had incarcerated and imprisoned her in a dungeonish house within the very same locality and continually sexually ravaged her during the same period.........
According to the investigating officer; the survivor somehow managed to flee her prison late on Tuesday night as her tormentor and captor had left for Bhopal earlier in the day and somehow managed to wend her way to the area's police station where she proceeded to lodge this complaint against her so called male friend who had imprisoned and sexually abused her for a little over two years by gaining her trust and confidence with the oft repeated promise of marrying her.........
According to a senior police officer; the accused who met the survivor who originally hails from Kerala in a Bhopal based private hospital where he was admitted a little over two years ago had somehow managed to coerce the unsuspecting woman into accompanying him to Delhi by dangling the much coveted marriage related carrot and then proceeded to incarcerate the woman within this house and reduce her life to a living hell for the nest two years and a bit........
A case under sections 376 (rape); 365 (kidnapping or abducting); and 366 (kidnapping; abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage) of the Indian Penal Code has been duly registered against the wanted gent who is supposedly in Bhopal at the current time and two teams have been despatched to Bhopal to apprehend him and bring him back at the earliest.........
According to the survivor; she had moved to Bhopal after having duly completed a diploma course in auxiliary nursing and mid-wifery and happened upon her captor when he was admitted in the very same private hospital in which she was serving at the time; he soon befriended and taking undue advantage of her naivety and trusting nature managed to convince her into accompanying her to Delhi where he was supposed to be doing a MBA course by dangling the carrot of marriage and a better and far more prosperous future.........
The survivor who is currently undergoing a series of medical examinations and counselling in a government run medical facility claims that she has become wiser and that much warier in hindsight and even gone to the extent of swearing off menfolk for the remainder of her lifespan..........

ON ETERNAL VIGILANCE.........

Cyber crimesters seem to have perfected the dubious/nefarious art of pilfering clips of newly married couples intimate moments and uploading the same on social networking as well as porn sites if recent trends are any parameter or yardstick to go by.................
An Ahmedabad based couple (long term residents of the city's famed Satellite Town) who had recorded the minute by minute proceedings of their honeymoon a little over seven years back; were shocked and dismayed to find their intimate moments featuring prominently all over the worldwide net a week or so ago.......
To their credit; they promptly lodged a written complaint with the Ahmedabad Police's cyber cell as soon as they were notified about the unsavoury developments pertaining to their intensely private intimate moments by a perturbed and concerned mutual friend who chanced upon the same on at least two social networking as well as quite a few porn sites a little over a week or so ago.........
Getting cracking without any further ado; Ahmedabad cyber cell authorities/sleuths promptly asked the concerned social networking site about the IP address from which the now infamous clip was launched and successfully managed to trace the same to a cell phone being used in the Pune area.........
Further investigations revealed that the SIM card of the Pune based cellphone was registered in the name of one Kunal Chauhan who has now been summoned for questioning by the Ahmedabad police in order to ascertain the fact whether he had uploaded these clips on the said sites all by himself or whether some third person had clandestinely misused the sim card registered in his name and thereby cooked his goose in the bargain...........
There certainly is a lesson for all of us somewhere especially with regard to being vigilant and reporting the loss of your cellphone and memory card forthwith instead of remaining oblivious to the development for 7 long years like the Ahmedabad based couple and rising up from your self enforced slumber after you have become the unwilling stars on a few infamous sites that take undue pride in airing such material...........
What was it that a wise man said about eternal vigilance being the cornerstone of any and every democratic country and society...........

SUSHANT AND ALIA TO FEATURE IN HOMI ADJANIA'S NEXT.........

Trust the Hindi film industry to do the unexpected every single time; here comes the news about "Finding Fanny" director Homi Adjania's next untitled venture and the same is expected to be India's answer to the iconic "Back to the Future".........
Ending a rather lengthy period of speculation and conjecture sources linked to the project confirmed the news that Kai Po Che fame Sushant Singh Rajput will romance Highway fame Alia Bhatt in this yet to be titled venture that will be helmed by the irrepressible and somewhat eccentric Homi Adjania.......
What is even more noteworthy is the fact that this yet to be titled venture will feature two love stories set in separate and disparate eras starring Sushant; Alia and a stellar ensemble cast that is being firmed or finalised even as we share details about this novel venture..........
This film surely seems to have a lot going for it; the spotless and mint fresh pairing of Sushant and Alia to begin with; followed by a script that promises to be a little hatke and contrary to whatever one might have come to expect from the Hindi film industry as a matter of course...........
Continuing to spill the beans; "the insider" let the cat out of the bag and inadvertently disclosed the fact that a crack team from Hollywood has already been roped in to oversee the lead pairs; on screen appearance; persona; visage; special effects and periodic look etcetera; this film is sure going to be producer Dinesh Vijan and Homi Adjania's most adventurous venture till date and the duo want to leave no stone unturned in giving their production the much desired and envied cutting edge.........
Pre-production work on this eagerly awaited venture is already underway in full swing and the film is salted to go on the floors by May/June 2015 as both Sushant and Alia would have wrapped up their pending ventures by then and will be entirely free to focus their concerted energies on this "intelligent" venture.........; ...