WHEN IF EVER WILL THESE HABITUAL CRIMINALS GET THEIR JUST DESSERTS.......

The powers that be within the supposedly hallowed precincts (if one can call it that) seem hell bent upon imperiling and endangering your precious lives no matter what.......
 Just barely a week or so after nearly 130 or so hapless; unsuspecting and guileless railway commuters met their maker as a result of 14 bogies of the ill fated express train derailing some 60 odd kilometers away from Kanpur the scores of railway commuters travelling on the much vaunted Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express barely survived a similar ghastly and inhuman fate thanks to providence and the almighty........
 According to alacritous and concerned villagers living in close proximity to the damaged railway tracks the afore mentioned train had just crossed the Western Hardayal Nagar area on the Barauni-Katihar Railway section in Bihar at around at around 3;30 am or so in the wee hours or so at a resoundingly high speed when a group of male villagers who were make a beeline for their favourite defecation spots noticed that the said railway track was broken or then fractured in more places than one........
 Alarmed; distressed; concerned and dismayed; the caring and conscientious villagers rushed towards the nearest railway station braving the early morning chill and alerted the railway personnel on duty at the seemingly unearthly hour of 4:30 am as they did not want a repeat or then reprisal of the horrendous Kanpur incident in their immediate vicinity.......
 Initially disbelieving and dismissive railway officials soon came to their collective senses and made a hurried and unceremonious beeline to the mentioned section where they found that the claims about the track on the down section being damaged and mutilated was indeed true and irrefutable........
Linemen and other track maintenance staff were then roused from their salubrious slumber and rushed post haste to the said spot to carry out the much desired and required repair and maintenance works as a result of which all the trains which followed in the immediate wake of the Rajdhani Express were ingloriously halted at the nearby Khagria station for some three odd hours while the fractured tracks were repaired to the satisfaction of the chief technical or then track maintenance officer.......
 Attributing the anomaly to cyclical changes in weather patterns at this time of the year the senior most railway official in the area has issued orders to the effect that all trains passing on the down track for the next five or so days will only do so at speeds not exceeding 30 kmph or then until the worn out and age old track/s are completely replaced with a set of shining new tracks capable of bearing the load exerted on it by trains travelling at speeds in excess of 100 kmph........
 One only wonders when if ever will they come to their senses and acquaint themselves with the inexorable fact that they cannot afford to play around with commuters precious and irreplaceable lives any longer.......

MOST HEARTENING TO SEE COPS DONNING THIS AVATAR.......

It is indeed most heartening; encouraging and gratifying to note or then highlight the fact that our much maligned and vilified men in khakhi do indeed play peacemakers and mediators between warring/sparring families as and when the same catches their fancy.......
 Believe it or not Aurangabad (Maharashtra) police personnel discharged this unenviable and thankless role when they were confronted with the hideous demeaning spectacle of two squabbling inexorably or then inextricably interlinked couples almost coming to blows on a fateful and eventful late Tuesday morning as two members (one male and one female belonging to each family had seemingly committed the unpardonable and heinous crime of falling head over heels for each other).......
 According to senior police officials matters came to a head on the above/afore mentioned morning when the 21 year old male member belonging to one of the closely related families and his 20 year old female cousin who belonged to the second family in question deigned or then dared to commit the cardinal sin of spending some quality time with each other by vrooming off on the male's trusted motorcycle at around 9 am or so on Tuesday morning......
 A so called well wisher of the young lady's family happened to spot them heading of on their idyllic tryst and took unto himself the onerous and supposedly "honourable" task of informing the lady's incensed and harrowed family members about her antics and completely oblivious to the devious machinations of the damsel's chagrined family members the lovey dovey couple were soon brought down from their dream like pedestal when they found themselves surrounded on all sides by the 20 year old's family members who then proceeded to literally drag her away from the spot by her hair........
 In the meanwhile; the 21 year old male's family members who were similarly alerted by a self anointed and appointed well wisher also happened to arrive at the very same spot and a free for all ensued for the next fifteen minutes or so before the cops who were alerted by concerned and perturbed bystanders arrived at the spot........
 Better sense and sanity ultimately prevailed when the denizens of the two fratricidal families and the cousins who were hopelessly smitten with each other were unceremoniously bundled off to the nearest police station in the four waiting police vehicles and sagely counselled to the effect that they could not legally separate the couple against their express wishes and consent as the two of them were majors and hence legally ordained with the right of choosing their respective life partners........
 Realising that their game was up or their goose was cooked the two crestfallen and increasingly sheepish interrelated families made their inglorious exit from the said police thana while holding out the promise of letting bygones be bygones and letting the youngsters have their own way........
 One only hopes and prays that wiser counsel prevails within the rank and file of the now infamous two families and that the trusting couple does not end up on the desecrated and despicable altar of honour or then should I say dishonourable killings which seem to have become the order of the day........

FOOD FOR THE MIND AND A LOT MORE BESIDES........

Short; well intentioned; dark; desolate; disturbing; mystifying; topical and path breaking films starring actors par excellence like Manoj Bajpayee; Radhika Apte; Rajkumar Rao; Pawan Malhotra; Neha Dhupia that have since become the stuff that legends are made of are currently ruling the internet; intranet and such other social networking sites/ platforms/ avenues.......
 "Chutney' a 17 odd minute long feature film written and produced by the highly underrated and largely neglected Tisca Chopra of "Taare Zameen Par" fame and directed by the hitherto unknown Jyoti Kapur Das is the current flavour of the season for it's topicality; relevance; underlying intelligence and gumption to question the supposedly sacrosanct and pious Indian family system/ hierarchy or set up.........
 Starring Tisca Chopra; Adil Hussain (of English Vinglish fame) and Rasika Duggal "Chutney" goes more than the proverbial two steps further in questioning the "honoured and established" husband wife relationship and ultimately ends up throwing up a series of questions and queries pertaining to the sustainability/ relevance/ necessity and continuance of all such socially and communally ordained relationships and their necessity........
 Largely centered around the philosophical/ articulate/ path breaking and stereotype defying conversation between the two female protagonists in the aftermath of an archetypal dinner party where Tisca's immediate neighbour is seen openly flirting and gallivanting around with her typically domineering/ dominating/ devilish stereo typical male chauvinist husband; "Chutney" draws you into a vortex of mind raising or then should I say stimulating and invigorating emotions and experiences that literally grab you in their vice like grip and only let go when the end credits roll across the screen........
 So whatever on earth are you waiting for watch "Chutney" right now for a chastening; life altering and mind boggling epochal and life defining/altering experience........

CALL/TERM IT WHATEVER YOU WILL.......

Honour/dishonour/ macabre/ sinister/ blood curdling/ despicable or then whatever else you chose to refer to them as; the fact of the matter is that these ordained and meticulously plotted murders are giving our so called "hallowed and honoured" ancient civilisation a bad name......
 In the latest gory and devilish such incident to hit the headlines; a 14 year old class IX student of a state government run educational institution was found dead under mysterious circumstances late on Sunday night at her modest middle class home in Karnal's (Haryana) Kunjpura locality........
 According to highly placed police sources; concerned and conscientious neighbours informed them about the mortal remains of Renu (the deceased or then victim if you prefer calling her that) were discovered in the nondescript room that she shared with her younger sibling under the most mystifying and perturbing circumstances a little after 11:30 pm or so on the fateful and eventful Sunday night in question........
 Police officials who reached the crime scene within ten or so minutes after being summoned/informed took stock of the prevailing situation/circumstances and began the due process of questioning/interrogating the seemingly/ supposedly grieving family members who served up or dished out a volley of answers that only served to arouse the men in khakhi's suspicions and investigative inclinations.......
 According to one family member Renu had committed suicide by hanging herself with a stole as she was deeply perturbed and disturbed by her less than perfect test scores while another doled out the fact that she ended her life prematurely as she was dismayed by the scathing criticism meted out by her teachers about her repeated failures to pass her examinations with flying colours.......
 Totally unconvinced and stupefied by the "true lies" pouring out of the mouths of the assembled family members and relatives; the cops resorted to the now customary method of despatching the corpse for the legally mandated and ordained post mortem/autopsy and their deepest apprehensions were proved beyond a shadow of doubt when the same threw up the irrefutable fact that the 14 year old had been throttled or then asphyxiated to death........
 Intense/sustained and pain staking interrogations and extensively intrusive question and answer sessions have since become the order of the day within the departed soul's household as the Haryana cops have redoubled their efforts to unmask as well as apprehend the clueless and guileless Renu's tormentor and murderer.........

TIME FOR A MUCH DESIRED "REALITY CHECK".........

Though yours truly is a committed; die hard and life long volunteer of the much maligned and lampooned Aam Aadmi Party; party supremo Arvind Kejriwal's inexplicable penchant for ending up with his foot in his mouth every single time he deigns to open it.......
 True to his habit and nature; Mr. Kejriwal yet again took to twitter and other social networking mediums while simultaneously firing or then letting loose verbal volleys at the Bharatiya Janata Party's celebrated; colourful and controversial (in equal measure) member of Parliament on a typically chilly Sunday late November afternoon.......
 Firing off innumerable questions pertaining to the expenses being incurred on the parliamentarian's daughters wedding (according to Kejriwal's umpteen twitter posts); the incumbent Delhi chief minister wondered whether Sharma or his "body doubles" had stood in a queue or then in a never ending line before a Delhi Bank like the long suffering common man who had been at the receiving end of Prime Minister Modi's much debated and dissected "Demonetisation" drive........
 Giving back as good as he got; Sharma pointedly drew Arvind's attention to the inexorable fact that it was his son and not daughter who was getting married in the first week of December and not his daughter as Mr. Kejriwal had erroneously pointed out.......
 He secondly educated or then drew the incorrigible self anointed and appointed "crusader's" attention to the undeniable fact that he has stood in a line before a nationalised bank's Parliament Street Branch before laying his hands on the legally mandated and permissible amount of Rs. 2.5 lakhs a la any other fellow Indian.......
 Last but not the least; he also forwarded a detailed statement of expenses incurred on his progeny's impending wedding and highlighted the payments made through credit/debit cards and cheques by conspicuously highlighting the same by underlining and highlighting them with a red marker.......
 BJP 100- Kejriwal 0; one wonders whether the master of "shoot and scoot" politics will eat humble pie at long last; exercise due diligence; assiduously do his homework and double check every fact before letting loose his latest salvo as every misfire leaves not only him but also legions of avowed Aam Aadmi Party selfless; committed and passionate workers and volunteers "shame and red faced" every single time.........

"INDIA VERSUS BHARAT" DEBATE REIGNITED.......

Welcome back to the "old stone age" or then should I say "Indus Valley Civilisation"; archaic living conditions; pedantic and stilted mindsets; ironclad and iconoclastic laws and diktats; so on and so forth........
 It really does not matter whether or not you term this bizarre; logic defying and seemingly insane diktat issued by the powers that be within the supposedly hallowed and sacrosanct ranks of the "mahapanchayat" constituted by the residents of Aligarh District (Uttar Pradesh's) Fatehgarhi Village.......
 What makes this unwittingly hilarious; ironical and farcical exercise even more ironical and rhetorical is the ironclad fact that this so called mahapanchayat was passing this medieval and decrepit diktat banning the use of cellphones; jeans and T-shirts by all the female teenaged denizens of the village without exception at precisely the same time when Prime Minister Modi was issuing the clarion call exhorting his countrymen and women to put their beloved and dearer than life mobile handsets and start using the same as wallets and the like during the course of his much vaunted and universally followed "Mann Ki Baat" radio address on a typically balmy Sunday afternoon.......
 Justifying and defending the hedonistic diktats; his royal highness or then should I say his loony highness Nekram Chaudhary; life time president of the exalted and detested 28 member "executive council" justified the "unanimous decision" by acerbically pointing out the fact that all the 200 odd residents of the village who voluntarily participated in this farcical and hypocritical exercise unanimously voted to impose the "ban' on the use of mobile phones; jeans and T-shirts by all the girls of an impressionable age as the usage of the same were morally; materialistically and intellectually corrupting them and impairing their though processes beyond repair and permissible bounds.......
 Chaudhary also wondered why this decision was being singled out for special mention and unwarranted attention as the very same "mahapanchayat" had also passed yet another unanimous and sagely decision pertaining to the imposition of hefty and wallet emptying fines and levies on all those male and female residents of the village who were found imbibing the liquids that cause you to lose control of your senses (Liquor) as well as gambling or then whiling away their precious time in gambling and other idle pursuits.........
 Yet another Chaudhary acolyte drew one's attention to the corollary about the girl in questions parents and other immediate family members being taken to task and socially and morally boycotted if their daughters/ nieces or the like summoned or then garnered the moral fibre; guts and gumption to defy the laid down law.......
 Thank the good lord for tender mercies as the "mahapnachayat" failed to arrive at a consensus on the quantum of fines to be levied or imposed in each case and will be meeting again after a fortnight long interval in order to arrive at a consensual decision on the same........

TIME FOR THE REINCARNATED AND REVAMPED "MONTY" PANESAR........

Currently out of favour left arm twirler Madhusudan Singh (Monty) must either be an incorrigible optimist or then the most delusional character on planet earth......
 "Monty" who teased; tormented and traumatised the much vaunted Indian batting line up in tandem with his then "spin twin" Graeme Swann (remember England's epochal and triumphant Indian tour of 2012) told an Australian daily that he expects the resilient and doughty Englishman to bounce back and win the ongoing five test match series against the Virat Kohli led Indian test team despite being one down at last count.......
 Panesar who has been plagued by a series of career threatening or then should I say shortening shoulder injuries off late is currently plying his trade for a Sydney based side in Australia's domestic championships while concurrently undergoing a lengthy and arduous rehabilitation and convalescence exercise.......
 This doughty Sardar who annexed 17 wickets during the course of the "historic" 2012 test series (only Swann did one better than him by garnering 20 wickets) during the course of the four test series grew nostalgic when asked about his Ludhiana based roots and quipped that there is nothing he would love to do more than making the Indian batsmen dance to his beguiling and tantalising tunes while filling himself to the gills with his favourite "makki di roti and sarson da saag" which is the current flavour of the season in the land of five rivers.......
 34 year old Monty who last donned the English colours or then appeared in the English test colours a good three or so years ago had a sage word or two or advice for the beleaguered English skipper Alastair Cook and urged him to unleash his battery of pacers on the Indian batsmen as the present lot of English skippers lacked the guile; ability; gumption; wherewithal and pedigree to annex twenty Indian wickets on their own........
One wonders whether the English team management will now send a lightning SOS to the irrepressible Sardar who is streets ahead of the "sorry apologies" for trundlers who have made the cut/trip to Indian shores this time around........

DEMONETISATION DRIVE'S SELF APPOINTED/ANOINTED MASCOTS........

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley would certainly do well to appoint/anoint this unassuming and unheralded Surat based couple as the brand ambassadors for their much vaunted and keenly contested first of it's kind "demonetisation" drive or initiative.........
 Putting the Janardhan Reddy's and others of his ilk to shame this nondescript couple who was literally at sixes and sevens in the aftermath of the Prime Minister's earth breaking announcement on the late evening of November 8; 2016; this couple put it's collective wits together and show the rest of the world how to convert seeming adversity into a boon and blessing.......
Unable to lay their hands on the labours of their very own blood; sweat and tears or hard earned money despite spending the best part of six hours per day for a continual period of ten or so days literally hot frogging from on bank and ATM to the other; this archetypal lower middle class couple put their as well as their families fond and rosy plans of hosting the stereotypical "big; fat Indian wedding" and turn pioneers instead........
 As they were left scraping the bottom of the barrel the respective families eschewed all their carefully and meticulously laid out plans of laying out a delectable and sumptuous five course Gujarati vegetarian meal; they instead took a collective decision to only serve the baraatis with "chai paani" and were more than pleasantly surprised when the assembled fellow villagers took the absence of a sumptuous meal in their collective stride and effusively blessed the newly married couple for their praiseworthy and exceedingly rare ability to think on their feet and make the best of a seemingly dire and desperate predilection.......
 You now know how to make the best of a seemingly hellish predicament and that too at a cost of a little over 500 or so Indian rupees.........

YET ANOTHER BLOT ON BHOPAL'S ALREADY TARNISHED VISAGE.......

This sinister; blood curdling/chilling/ macabre and murderous incident will certainly besmirch and tarnish the already blotted visage of the Shivraj Singh Chauhan government......
 Madhya Pradesh's capital city i.e. Bhopal is still grappling and trying to come to terms with the grotesque and gory murder of a 31 year old salesman who was gunned down at point blank range in the vicinity of a toll booth......
 According to the city's Superintendent of Police G.K. Pathak the now deceased Vikrant rajput was allegedly pursued from his home and hearth by at least four armed and masked yet to be identified miscreants......
 Eyewitnesses and bystanders who are still recoiling in abject shock and horror swore to the irrevocable fact that their steps were brought to an abrupt and impromptu standstill when they heard a volley of shots breaking out in their immediate surroundings.......
 The next dastardly sight that they were confronted with at around 11:20 am or so on a particularly hellish and eventful Thursday morning was that of the dear departed collapsing to the ground in a rapidly coagulating/spreading pool of his own life blood and other life sustaining substances......
 An 108 ambulance that was summoned to the crime scene post haste rushed the mortally wounded Pathak to the nearest government run medical facility where the doctors on duty at the time pronounced him brought dead on arrival and surmised that the four bullets that had pierced his head as well as the two bullets lodged in his heart has hastened or then contributed significantly towards his premature departure from planet earth........
 Four police teams expressly constituted for the purpose have been entrusted with the onerous responsibility of unmasking or then unravelling the true identities of the four alleged murderers and apprehending/arresting them at the earliest...
 Highly ranked police officials have also ruled out robbery as a motive as the 31 year old victim was closely/intimately associated with a city based NGO and was far from flush with funds or any other material resources........
 Personal enimity/animosity or then a deep rooted sense of hatred are being looked at possible motives behind this murder most fouls and police officials have begun interrogating the corpses family members/friends/ professional associates/ colleagues and well wishers in an effort to unravel the puzzle behind this murder that has shaken Bhopal to it's very core.......

DO KEEP A TIGHT REIN ON YOUR SANITY AND TEMPER

Will somebody do the needful and smash this brigand/vigilantes face/visage to smithereens.......
 I for one can understand the angst/chagrin and simmering frustration at being denied access to your own hard earned money despite sagely waiting in queues for hours on end having been at the receiving end more than once; but does this chastening and wisening experience give you the right to take the law into your own hands?????
Well; this irate/incensed/infuriated and crazed Ahmedabad based gent certainly thought so and got more than he bargained for as an result or then natural corollary of his illegal and inexplicable actions.......
 Long term Khokhra (Locality in Ahmedabad) resident Satish Patel ended up committing the dastardly; demonic; despicable and deplorable sin of vandalising the glass door of a nationalised bank branch in his locality when the same shut shop at ti's pre ordained 4 pm......
 According to the chagrined and concerned assistant manager; the concerned authorities took a conscious decision to down the shutters of the bank at the scheduled 4 pm on Wednesday evening as they had exhausted their allotted cash chest or reserves for the day.......
 Their perfectly logical and legal actions however got the goat of Patel who vented his pent up frustration and consternation by smashing the glass screen of the door into smithereens with his bare fists while other denizens of the area watched in amazement and bewilderment as they had also been denied the opportunity of laying their hands on their own funds and resources despite braving the elements for two hours and more a la Patel......
 Local police personnel who were summoned to the spot by bank officials promptly arrived on the scene and took the offender into their custody......
They then proceeded to register a case against the vigilante under the relevant and applicable sections of the IPC and produced the gent before a judicial magistrate who remanded him to seven days of judicial custody......
 Patel who is currently cooling his heels as well as ardour in the city's central jail and pondering over the long term consequences of a fleeting moment of insanity and mayhem.......

TAKING THE LEAD AND LIGHTING UP THE WAY........

Seemingly primitive; medieval; archaic and conservative Indonesia and Pakistan seem to have assumed the leading role as far as giving transgenders their due rights and lost dignity are concerned........
Yogyakarta; Indonesia took the lead in matters of constructing and erecting the first of it's kind mosque almost exclusively meant for the marginalised; victimised; ostracised and vilified "transgender" community and Islamabad will soon join Yogyakarta by erecting a similar edifice.......
 Transgender rights activist and co-founder of the Shemale Association for Fundamental Rights (SAFAR) Nadeem Kashish is the moving/guiding force behind the erection of this mosque with a difference that can accommodate a little more than 1;000 or so devouts at a given time.......
Taking to her twitter handle to express her deep rooted sense of outrage/chagrin/angst and anguish at the inhuman and demonic manner in which the transgenders residing within Pakistan have been thus far treated by their seemingly "blessed and able" fellow Pakistanis Ms. Kashish held out the fervent hope that the construction of this much desired and cherished mosque would herald or then usher in the winds of change within an ultra conservative and decadent society that has taken undue pride in haranguing and harassing their so called "lesser privileged" fellow denizens.......
 Nadeem also exhorted and implored her countrymen and women to put a stop to the reprehensible and abhorrent trend of turning the law on the transgender community for every imagined and flighty slight and begin according them their due dignity and respect at long last........
SAFAR has certainly taken the lead in matters pertaining to transgender rights and dignity within Pakistan; one wonders whether our home grown transgender rights activists and other similarly inclined folks would follow in it's wake sooner rather than later........

THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE AND ALL THAT.......

Does anybody still dispute or refute the irrevocable fact that murder; mayhem; lawlessness and the rule of the jungle prevail through every nook and cranny of Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh........
 In the latest incident of murderous rage a milkman/milk vendor (Doodhwala Bhaiyya) was shot dead from point blank range early on Wednesday morning for having committed the "unpardonable" crime of vending milk in their "appropriated" area.......
 According to local police sources this seemingly dastardly and despicable murder took place at around 9 am or so in Etah District's Chilmapur Village when the now deceased 25 year old Mukesh Yadav was loading cans of milk onto the van in which he intended to ferry the same.......
 Mukesh was more than halfway through his anointed task when a gang of five or so assailants led by his rival and long term adversary Satish Yadav arrived on the scene and let loose a volley of shots from three or more country revolvers five or so of which pierced the chest and temple of the departed soul.......
They succeeded in making good their escape from the murder scene in an SUV before the terrified and scandalised fellow villagers could even move a limb and shift the mortally wounded young man who breathed his last on the way to the nearest hospital.......
 Police sleuths who arrived at the district government hospital after being alerted by the on duty doctors registered a case of murder under section 302 of the IPC against the main accused Mukesh Yadav and five yet to be identified assailants based on the statements recorded by eyewitnesses and have initiated the now stereotyped manhunt in order to apprehend the accused at the earliest.......
Additional police reinforcements have also been deployed in Yadav's village and adjoining areas in anticipation of a violent and particularly blood curdling reprisal by the dear departed youth's family members; friends and well wishers.......

MURDER OR SUICIDE YOU DECIDE........

Murder most foul or then yet another needless; aimless and utterly avoidable suicide; well I will let each one of you draw your very own conclusions.......
 A 14 year old class IX student of a state government run educational facility was found hanging by her neck from the ceiling fan of her room in Shahjahanpur District's (Uttar Pradesh) Bahadupura Area early on Tuesday morning.......
 This sinister and macabre incident came to light when the deceased's father entered her room with her favoured glass of badam milk and was shocked and chagrined beyond all reasonable belief when he was confronted with the ghastly sight that will continue to haunt him till the end of his days....... Seemingly distraught and inconsolable family members duly informed the police sleuths who made a beeline to the crime scene as soon as they were summoned that Kumari Mridula (the victim) was all by herself in her room at the time and her father who had just returned from his duties as a security guard at a local factory stumbled upon the corpse when he entered her room.........
 What however has raised the hackles of the investigating authorities is the sordid and diabolic fact that the family steadfastly refused to hand over the lifeless body to the concerned authorities for the legally ordained autopsy/post mortem and only consented to the same when threatened with immediate arrest.........
 They have also not registered a FIR till date even though some 30 or so hours have elapsed since their 14 year old daughter's senseless mortal remains were discovered.......
 In the meanwhile; senior police officials are eagerly awaiting the autopsy results in order to either close the case as a willful and wanton suicide or then proceed with their investigations in this regard and apprehend the culprit/s at the earliest if the autopsy results throw up even the merest hint of foul play........

WILL THIS BARBARISM EVER END........

The untold and inhuman atrocities against demonised and ostracised Dalits continue unabated in Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh even as the ruling Yadav clan continues waxing eloquent on seemingly trivial and inane issues.......
 Uttar Pradesh's most grotesque; devilish and deprecable secret surfaced yet again late on Tuesday afternoon when the disfigured; decaying and semi clad mortal remains of a 16 year old Dalit teenager were recovered from the now discarded toilet cubicles of a private primary school in Firozabad district's Nidhauli Kala Village......
 Struggling to come to terms with the premature and untimely demise of his beloved daughter from the land of the living; the young woman's grieving and distraught father revealed the pitiable fact that his offspring was afflicted with a mental ailment that could not be requisitely and adequately treated for the want of financial resources and she had hence taken to wandering on the streets in a dazed and semi coherent manner by herself........
 He tearfully and haltingly also spilled the beans and disclosed the fact that his daughter had gone missing on the preceding fateful and gory Saturday early evening and a police complaint filed at the neighbouring police within four or so hours of her mystifying disappearance had amounted to naught as the state police sleuths did precious little in this regard.......
 A group of school students who were up to some innocent mischief and raucous banter unwittingly stumbled upon the corpse of the teenager and raised an almighty din and clamour that brought both the support/administrative staff as well as teachers to the spot within a few minutes........
 Shocked; dismayed and chagrined beyond belief; a few teachers somehow or the other managed to hang onto the last vestiges of sanity and duly informed the local police thana following which the senior inspector and five police constables deigned to make an appearance at the crime scene some twenty or so minutes after being informed.......
 They then proceeded to record the statements of the students who inadvertently stumbled upon the mutilated body as well as the teachers and school staff who rushed to the spot before sending the lifeless body to the district government hospital for the legally mandated/ordained post mortem and autopsy........
 The team of government doctors that performed the post mortem threw light upon the sordid and scandalous fact that the 16 year old was sexually assaulted multiple times before being strangled/asphyxiated to death and her tormentors then made an attempt to throw the police investigators off the trail by dousing her body with acid and setting it on fire in an attempt to obscure it's identity........
 Her pater was subsequently summoned to the said hospital after a police constable on duty at the time abruptly remembered the missing complaint filed by the disconsolate gent and he identified his daughter's dismembered and disfigured cadaver by the torn and dishevelled kurta adorning the upper half of what was left of her body.......
 As things stand at the present moment the now deceased's father and other family members are literally running from plillar to post in their untiring and ceaseless efforts to bring the culprits to book while Akhilesh and other remorseless members of the Yadav clan continue to make lofty; self aggrandising and blatantly false pronouncements about the so called "achievements" of their four and three quarter year long crime infested tenure........

REEL AND REAL LIFE NEERJA BHANOT.......

Ms. Sonam Kapoor's emulatory and noteworthy exploits did not end with essaying the biographical role of Neerja Bhanot the "brave heart" air hostess who selflessly laid down her life in the cause of the greater good of mankind and airline passengers........
 If anything Neerja wno now enjoys an exalted state amongst the angels or then pride of place amongst their celebrated ranks seems to have given the much added fillip to Sonam's flagging career and given it the much needed renewed lease of life........
 Sonam might or then may not end up garnering the much coveted "best actress" awards at the innumerable award functions that keep unfolding with nauseating regularity but eh has certainly been accorded a rare honour and encomium within the annals of the Bhanot family as Neerja reincarnated.......
 Believe it or not the real Neerja might have bid goodbye to planet earth in 1986 (a good 30 plus years ago) by her surviving family members exhorted Sonam to accept a gallantry award conferred on the real Neerja in recognition of her all too rare bravery and humanitarian spirit by the Mother Teresa Memorial Foundation in Mumbai on November 20 and Ms. Kapoor more than readily acceded to their heartfelt request/entreaty........
 Expressing her heartfelt thanks and sense of gratitude to Ms. Bhanot's two existing siblings (elder brothers Anish and Akhil) Sonam took to her twitter handle to outline her sense of humility; indebtedness and gratitude to the Bhanot family and the Mother Teresa Memorial Foundation.......
 She also profusely thanked the producers and director of Neerja for reposing their trust and confidence in her even when she was plagued by self doubts and impending sense of doom and last but not the least the indomitable and irrepressible Ms. Neerja Bhanot who hovered around her like her "guardian angle" all through the filming of the biopic and rounded off Sonam's personality as giving; magnanimous; philanthropic; gallant; humble and caring human being.......

AGE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A MERE NUMBER........

Age is nothing more than just a number as far as the suave; debonair; delightful and dapper former Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene is concerned........
 Currently setting the pitches and television screens alight with his rapier like bat with this exemplary exploits for the much vaunted Dhaka Dynamos Bangladesh Premier League franchise; this batter par excellence is slated to fly out to the freezing climes of New Zealand as soon as the curtains are drawn on the ongoing BPL jamboree......
This legendary and epochal batsman will be donning the colours of the defending champions Central Stags in the forthcoming Kiwi domestic T 20 championships and will be prominently featuring in a minimum of eight games/fixtures for his chosen franchise if everything goes as envisaged.......
 Whetting his lips in anticipation and looking forward to according a grand welcome to the living legend Stags skipper Pete De Wet reminded one and all of the indisputable fact that Mahela chruned out a whopping 249 runs at an astounding average of 62.25 in the four matches that he figured in last season........
 His magnificent exploits with the bat have literally forced the team owner's and management's hand into renewing his contract at an undisclosed premium and the news that this second to none Sri Lankan lion will don the team colours in all the eight preliminary or then round robin fixtures as well as represent the franchise throughout the final stages of the tournament (provided the team qualifies for the final stages of the forthcoming tournament) has certainly sent the die hard and avowed Stags fans into raptures of unbridled delight and gaiety...........
 All one can say in conclusion is that Mahela seems to have far more on his plate than he bargained for what with his much celebrated and anticipated exploits in various team colours as well as his newly donned avatar of the head/chief coach of the Indian Premier League Mumbai Indians franchise come circa April 2017.........

AAMIR KHAN WOWS HARYANA AND HOW.......

Reel life Mahavir Singh Phogat aka unparalleled actor par excellence Aamir Khan took his reel life role to an altogether exalted and heralded level when he not only attended his adopted daughter Geeta Phogat's nuptials or then marriage ceremony with fellow wrestler Pawan Kumar in Geeta's ancestral village on November 20;2016......
According to gushing; disbelieving and thoroughly overwhelmed fellow villagers the humble; unassuming; down to earth and seemingly nondescript Aamir turned up for the wedding sporting a traditional Haryanvi wedding ensemble int tow with his charming and effusive better half Kiran and proceeded to literally charm the hundreds of baraatis off their feet......
 Stationing himself at the entrance to the wedding venue Aamir welcomed all the guests and invitees with folded hands and bowed head and repeatedly mouthed his now iconic dialogue from the much awaited and anticipated wrestling saga "Dangal" 'Mhari Choriyan Chhoro Se Kam Hai Kya' every single time a clamour for the same went up times without end........
 His reel life better half Sakshi Tanwar unwittingly let the cat out of the bag when she revealed the heart warming and heartening fact that Aamir had grown extremely protective and possessive of Geeta during the course of his frequent and repeated meetings with the Phogat family to literally get into the skin of his character of Mahavir Singh Phogat as is his wont and habit........
 Mr. Khan had promised Geeta that he would be present in person during his adopted daughter Geeta's impending nuptials at/in the typical Haryanvi village of Balali and he not only honoured his promise but did one better by offering "Dangal" as his wedding gift/present to his adopted daughter who was overwhelmed by her new found father's unbridled and unabashed affection.......
 Aamir has certainly shown the rest of the world how it's well and truly done and one only hopes that the rest of planet earth follows in his wake and illustrious footsteps.......

KINDLY PAY DUE HEED TO JOHN'S SAGELY AND TIMELY ADVICE........

If you thought that our revered; worshipped and idolised matinee idols had it easy; perhaps it is time for you to spare a second thought and acquaint yourself with the prevalent ground realities.......
 Daredevil; Superman; Fall Guy; Captain America or then plain and simple John Abraham lifts the veil or rather shroud of secrecy surrounding the long held myths about the Hindi film industry and how.......
 John who severely and debilitatingly hurt his knee for the umpteenth time while performing a particularly arduous and life threatening/altering stunt during a shooting schedule of his just released tour de force "Force 2".......
 Mr. Abraham who experienced excruciating and inhuman pains after wrenching and grotesquely twisting his right knee beyond all endurable human belief took the injury lightly as is his wont and continued performing one death defying stunt after the other despite the dire predictions made by the doctor who was present on the sets all through the stunt sequences.......
 He painfully discovered the consequences of his willful; negligent and delusional actions/ deeds as he had to get himself admitted into a famed and iconic Mumbai super speciality hospital where a team of skilled and experienced surgeons cut open his right knee and drained the clotted blood accumulated in the area for a continual and torturous six day long period.......
 The "Dishoom" and "Dhoom" fame accomplished actors world literally and figuratively collapsed around his knees when the surgeon heading the team of doctors operating on him surgically informed him that the doctors had little or no recourse other than amputating his seriously afflicted right leg as the infection was rapidly spreading and the almost unstoppable spreading of the same could endanger his life and longevity on planet earth.......
 A stitch in time saves nine and a wizened and world weary veteran actor who had seen everything there is to see and a lot more besides turned out to be John's proverbial "knight in shining armour" as he severely reprimanded and chastised the afore mentioned doctors for being "prophets of doom" and impressed upon them the seemingly divine fact that yet another surgical procedure could not only save the afflicted and endangered leg but also give it a renewed lease of life and hope......
 Posting a series of pictures of himself propped up in his hospital bed on his innumerable social networking accounts John implored and exhorted all his fellow cine stars countrymen and women to pay due heed and cognisance to sage medical advice and never ever neglect any injury no matter however trivial and meaningless the same may seem at the time as the same could end up endangering your life and limb......
 I for one second John's expressed views and opinions in this regard and hope and pray that the same holds true for you as well......

EVERY DARK CLOUD DOES INDEED HAVE A SILVER LINING.......

It is indeed most heartening to note that conniving; malicious; demonic and deplorable burglars; thieves; brigands; dacoits et all who are hell bent on depriving honest and law abiding citizens of their due worth find themselves at the receiving end after the much debated and vilified demonetisation exercise......
 ATM's nationwide are getting drained off the rather meagre and measly financial resources pumped into them faster than one can say Jack Robinson or then should I say Girdhari Lal and this group/gaggle of wannabe outlaws discovered this undeniable fact much to their dismay.......
 According to police sources this intrepid group of bank intruders broke into a State Bank ATM located in the Anchalaguma area of Odisha's Nabrangpur District late on Friday night in a nefarious attempt to enrich themselves at the cost of the vexed and distressed common man......
 Lo and behold!!! they found themselves at the receiving end as the ATM in question did not have a single rupee within it's confines and realising that their condemnable actions had failed to yield the much desired consequences; these vigilantes vented their ire on the machine by partially damaging it and the CCTV camera that occupied pride of place within the premises before making good their escape.......
 Will the carping critics; opposers who have nothing better to do with their time and last but not the least legions of Modi bashers will at long last give Modi and the incumbent government at the centre their much deserved due as Modi's heroic; unprecedented and pioneering drive has even succeeded in bettering/besting scoundrels and criminals at their own game........

ONE GOOD TURN DEFINITELY DESERVES ANOTHER.......

One good turn definitely deserves another and the ailing external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is being paid what she so richly deserves with renewed interest.......
 Ms. Swaraj who was discharged from the much vaunted and celebrated Nephrology unit of AIIMS a couple of days or so ago has been inundated with offers from concerned citizens voluntarily and admirably offering their kidneys without expecting anything in return so that the much needed transplant that she requires can be expedited post haste......
Overwhelmed and humbled by the never ending offers Sushma ji took to her twitter handle to personally thank every lady and gent who had taken the time out to wish her a speedy and complete recovery and more significantly gallantly/chivalrously offered their own kidneys thereby giving the much needed fresh lease of life to the near extinct all pervasive humanitarian spirit that transcends all man made barriers........
 Succinctly replying to the offer made by a Muslim gent (Mujib Ansari) who claimed to be an avid BSP supporter and carping critic of the BJP and yet stepped up to the plate and offered his kidney as he considered her to be the present day incarnate of the mother goddess who encompassed all her children without distinction in her all encompassing embrace Ms. Swaraj effusively thanked him for his sterling gesture and gushed that human organs and sublime feelings for other human beings are above all man made barriers of caste; creed and religion and must be allowed to remain that way for eternity........
One surely hopes and prays that these sage utterances and emulatory gestures once again rekindle the dying or then ebbing embers of the humanitarian spirit and give it a renewed lease of life......

LOOK WHO'S COME OUT IN SUPPORT OF MODI........

Notwithstanding the Arvind Kejriwal's; Mamata Banerjee's; Rahul Gandhi's (Pappu's) of this world; prime minister Narendra Modi's demonetisation policy has found resolute and unshakeable backers in the form of Ajay Devgn and Randeep Hooda........
 While The afore mentioned politicos are crying themselves hoarse about the miseries/sufferings inflicted on the Aam Aadmi by Modi's "surgical strike" on black money; unaccounted and ill gotten wealth or moolah; Messrs Devgn and Hooda heralded the unprecedented and iconic move in their own inimitable ways and manners......
 "Shivaay" Devgn more than candidly admitted to the fact that his latest home production was indeed bearing the brunt of the fallout or aftermath of the "surgical" strike but he was more than willing to forego a few crores in the larger interests of the nation and 127 odd crore fellow Indians who will only stand to benefit immeasurably in the long run......
 Not to be left behind; the Haryanvi "powerhouse of talent and histrionic skills" Randeep Hooda firstly clearly elucidated his educated and informed views in the presence of a select few members from the fourth estate and pulled no punches in doubting the intentions and patriotic/national fervour of those doubting thomases and prophets of doom who were superficially and hypocritically extending their unstinted support to Mr. Modi's "heroic" move but tempering the same with utterly meaningless; kintu; parantu's; if's and but's that served no other purpose other than furthering their vested self serving interests and motives and pandering to their jaundiced; prejudiced and utterly selfish and self serving constituencies........
 Less than satisfied with his expressed views and utterances; "Sarbjeet" Hooda also sent out a series of tweets exhorting and invigorating crores of fellow Indians to stand resolutely by the incumbent government's praiseworthy and visionary efforts while putting paid to the nefarious; dubious; farcical and deplorable deeds; words and utterances of the naysayers; doubters and critics who were continually and sickeningly putting their own interests before that of the nation as a whole.......
 Over to you Messrs Kejriwal; Banerjee and Pappu......

WOWING AVID CINE GOERS AND HOW.......

Do not judge either a book or then flick by it's cover or poster is an oft repeated and age old dictum; but whatever on earth can one possibly do when the poster in question leaves you transfixed and spellbound........
 Yes; you did indeed hear or then view the ethereal and sublime first look or then "teaser posters" of the much anticipated and awaited "Enthiran or Robot 2.0" co-starring mega stars Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar as the protagonist and antagonist.......
 Superstar and matinee idol or the should I say demi god beyond compare Rajini Sir shared the recently launched first look of this already legendary flick and the same have left us thirsting fro more what with the desi "Mr. Spock" aka "Khiladi" Kumar taking us by utter surprise.......
 According to sources closely associated with the multi crore or then should I say 200 crore plus venture Rajini Anna will be reprising his role as the cyborg cum human "Chitti" and Akshay will be essaying the once in a lifetime role of a megalomaniacal scientist who wants to rule over the world through any means possible.......
 As for Akshay's look in the film; I for one am completely confused as to whether he resembles Birdman; eccentric and outworldly scientist or the afore mentioned Mr. Spock the most.......
 All one can say in conclusion is that the film will certainly have you going back for second; third and fourth helpings of the same if the very poster and first look of the flick can mesmerise and overwhelm you.......

JOHN SHOWS US HOW IT'S TRULY DONE.......

One now knows the closely guarded and fiercely cloistered secret behind model turned actor-producer John Abraham's humility; simplicity and graciousness.......
 John who is all set to blaze across the silver screen yet again in his much awaited and anticipated latest action/adventure/patriotic flick "Force 2" somehat bashfully and coyly revealed the fact that he owes it all and more to his exemplary; noteworthy and illustrious parents.......
 John who rarely if ever opens up on matters close to his heart hesitantly and haltingly quipped that he owes his unprecedented success and unassuming persona to his typically middle class parents who still prefer using public transportation (Dad always travels by the much lampooned and castigated BEST buses while Mom prefers frequenting auto rickshaws despite their son's material wealth and largesse)......
 Exhorting and imploring all fellow Indians to do their bit towards reducing vehicular pollution by using public transportation as frequently as they can John candidly admitted that he never ever spared a second thought before boarding an auto rickshaw and making his way to his destination.......
 Candidly admitting that he did have a weakness and fondness for speed machines (high end and powered motorcycles) John went on to say that he never took out his motorcycles for a spin more than twice a week or so with all the mandatory safety equipment on as he did not want to add his bit to an already alarming and all pervasive carbon footprint......
 One can only hope and pray that the rest of his fellow actors/ stars/ countrymen and women take a leaf out of this mostly chappal and ganji clad golden hearted human being and contributed their mite towards making India a far more healthier and robust country that would set an example for the rest of the world to follow.......

LET'S CELEBRATE HER LATEST SUCCESSFUL VENTURE/ACHIEVEMENT......

Is there anything on planet earth that actress; model; biker; politician and role model par excellence Gul Panag cannot do or achieve?????
 After wowing both Indian as well as international audiences with bravura; stellar; off beat and seemingly eternal performances in "Dor"; "Manorama: Six Feet Under" and such other flicks that grace the silver screen once in an eternity; Gul has added yet another feather to her already burgeoning cap that is overflowing and inundated.......
 Fresh from her politician avatar; Ms. Panag has now donned the much envied role of a virtuoso qualified pilot and took to her various accounts on a plethora of social networking sites in order to both tom tom and celebrate her all too rare achievement........
 Besides herself with unbridled joy; gaiety and merriment Gul posted a series of photographs on her Instagram account donning her newly acquired pilot's attire/uniform and proudly upholding her prized possession i.e. invaluable and irreplaceable pilot's licence.......
I for one am hooting; cheering and saluting this woman who can beat any man hollow at any venture; feat whenever she puts he mind and soul to the same and hope that all of you will join me in celebrating and reveling in Ms. Panag's latest successful and entirely emulatory feat/venture.......

WISHING HER A SPEEDY AND COMPLETE RECOVERY........

One of my favourite and revered political icons is literally battling for her life and continued existence on planet earth.........
 Arguably one of our motherland's most dynamic; conscientious and caring external affairs ministers Ms. Sushma Swaraj is currently undergoing treatment for a potentially life threatening predicament at the national capital's celebrated and iconic super speciality government run medical facility All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).......
 Most readers may well remember that Ms. Swaraj was wheeled into the nephrology intensive care unit a little more than a week or so ago for a supposedly routine check up and mandatory medical tests.......
 These very same "mandatory" medical tests have irrefutably confirmed the fact that the 64 year old indomitable pocket sized human dynamo who has been a chronic diabetic for more than two decades has suffered extensive kidney damage and will henceforth require dialysis and such other treatments/procedures until her failing kidneys are transplanted ASAP.......
 As is her wont; the doughty and daunting Ms. Swaraj put out a series of tweets making light of her precarious and potentially life altering predicament preferring to repose her faith in her beloved Lord Krishna who would set these vexatious and perturbing health related matters/issues right in a jiffy.......
 Here's wishing Ms. Swaraj a speedy and complete recovery as the nation as a whole and Prime Minister Modi needs her by his side every step of the way.......

CONSCIENTIOUS AND REMORSEFUL BURGLAR/THIEF.......

A really conscientious and remorseful thief or then a philanderer with an active and kicking conscience????
Thanks or then no thanks (entirely depending on your own perspective) "sorry" seems to be the panacea to all evils willful; wanton; misplaced; malicious; unwitting or then demonic and maniacal........
 "Sorry" was the only word that this "thief with a difference" offered by way of apology or contrition after stealthily wending his way into the innermost recesses of the State Government administered Animal Husbandry Office in Kolhapur (Maharashtra) and making off with three computers that belonged to the very same........
 According to the besieged; harangued and barracked police sleuths probing this mystifying imbroglio; this yet to be identified adroit and resourceful gent somehow or the other managed to wrangle his way into the precincts of the same before closing hours on a particularly eventful and fateful Saturday November evening........
He then surreptitiously made his way out of the premises with three high end computers and a moderately expensive photocopying machine the current market value of which is estimated at a little over Rs. 75,000/- He however did the unthinkable by leaving behind a terse and rather flummoxing note with the word "sorry" and a solemn promise to return the stolen valuables/.office equipment as soon as his dire and precarious financial situation saw signs of upliftment and upward/onward progression.........
 This theft of seemingly irreplaceable and much coveted office equipment came to light early on Monday morning when the office peon and cleaning staff opened the same only to find the afore mentioned office equipment conspicuously and inexplicably missing from it's designated positions........
They then summoned the men in khakhi from the nearest police station who are now clutching at the proverbial straws and somewhat eccentric apology note while literally going round the bend in their efforts to unmask and apprehend the conscientious thief who has caused them sleepless nights ever since........

PRESENT DAY MIRACLE OR OTHERWISE.......

Present/modern day miracle; the good lord's attempt at stamping his relevance and supremacy or then yet another hackneyed case of blind; unreasonable belief and age old superstition ruling the roost????
 Thousands of incredulous and disbelieving gullible villagers residing in Mumbai's hitherto largely unknown and anonymous Kharodi Village claimed to have witnessed a "miracle" of "Biblical" proportions that shook them to the very core and only reaffirmed and reinforced their unshakeable belief in the greater glory of the almighty........
 As mentioned earlier thousands of innocent and impressionable folks thronged the village's iconic Saint Anthony's Parish throughout a typically desultory Sunday as the news about "holy and consecrated water" seeping from the feet of the altar of lord Jesus Christ thronged the hallowed shrine all decked up in their Sunday finery.......
 Fearing a complete breakdown of the salubrious and serene law and order situation alarmed and concerned men in khakhi from adjoining police stations made a beeline for the shrine post haste as the news of this supposed miracle spread like the proverbial wildfire......
 As millions of pictures and lakhs of live videos of the "watery shrine" went viral on various social networking sites and mediums within a mere matter of minutes residents from the prosperous Andheri and Bandra localities made their way towards the same in order to witness this "one of a lifetime" spectacle by themselves.........
As bottles; plastic containers and any other receptacles that could contain the "holy water" flowing out from the feet of the deity were the crying need of the hour the humble and unassuming villagers made a killing by selling the same at astronomical and grossly inflated prices as much as twenty times over and above the original........
Concerned and dismayed police sources have confirmed that they have sent a SOS to their superiors for further reinforcements and deployment of hundreds of more policemen as they expect the numbers of people to go up by lakhs or so as every Mumbaikar who believes in such supposed miracles is expected to visit the now celebrated and honoured shrine and witness this so called miracle with his/her own "blessed" eyes.......
 Miracle or otherwise; well I will simply let each one of you draw your own conclusions and surmises.......

[PARAMESHWAR DEEN SHOWS US HOW IT'S REALLY DONE.......

In this era of interminably long lines; irate citizens; mayhem; dismay; pandemonium; deafening din and clamour; this good samaritan shows the rest of us how it's done and embodies the humanitarian spirit........
 A typically balmy; desultory and particularly fateful Sunday morning only succeeded in adding a few more creases to the already furrowed brow of Surya Prakash a life long resident of Itaunja (Uttar Pradesh's) Madhopur Village as he had failed to lay his hands on any cash whatsoever despite making innumerable trips to the three nationalised bank branches dotting the landscape in and around his modest village dwelling.......
 Prakash had almost reached the end of the tether and was despairing beyond all reasonable belief as his beloved daughter's impending nuptials were just about a week or so away and he was literally clutching at the proverbial straws as the much desired crisp and fragrant currency notes were eluding his grasp every single time.......
 Help or succour almost always reaches you when you need it the most and Surya Prakash's immediate neighbour 48 year old Parameshwar Deen who was also in desperate need of the much sought after legal tender put his needs on the back burner and gallantly handed over the two newly issued currency notes of Rs. 2;000/- each that he had laid his hands upon after spending five excruciatingly long and haranguing hours waiting for his promised share of the spoils........
 Modestly and unassumingly brushing aside his emulatory gesture as "one of those things" Deen coyly quips that he rushed to help his neighbour of almost fourscore years standing on being apprised of his seemingly desperate predicament by his better half who had been noticing Prakash's growing sens of despair and disenchantment with discerning concern.......
 In this time of uncertainty and strife; the unheralded and seemingly anonymous Parameshwar Deen stands out as a living embodiment of the fast declining or then almost extinct humanitarian spirit and concern for a fellow human being.......
 More power to his elbow and may other Indians follow in his noteworthy wake and footsteps........

PROVERBIAL "STORM IN A TEA CUP"........

Can matters; issues; ego clashes; innuendos and acrimonious exchanges between Ranji Trophy team mates get any more heinous; deplorable and condemnable than this.......
 According to alarming and distressing reports emanating from the Bengal Ranji Trophy team; the sporty petrel of the team Ashok Dinda and the uber cool left arm twirler Pragyan Ojha were involved in an unseemly and fratricidal fracas during the course of a warm up session on the eve of their forthcoming fixture against the men from Tamil Nadu in Rajkot......
Dinda who has a chequered and none too favourable history of being involved in innumerable such spats in the not too distant past was the instigator as he freely indulged in a series of potentially debilitating and disabling tackles during the course of the now mandatory eight a side football match before the commencement of the far more arduous and demanding three hour long nets session.......
What makes the situation even more galling and perturbing is the fact that team Bengal skipper Manoj Tewary and head coach Sairaj bahutule had issued an express diktat forbidding the players from indulging in these bone crunching and potentially career shortening tackles as the same could cut a budding career down in it's prime.......
 Dinda however was dishing out these acrimonious tackles despite his team mates protestations and protests and was particularly infuriated and incensed when the so called "outsider" Pragyan Ojha who had shifted his allegiance to the beleaguered Bengal side at Saurav Dada Ganguly's insistence from Hyderabad some two odd seasons ago soon found himself flat on his back as he was at the receiving end of a totally unwarranted and unheralded shove from Dinda who took umbrage to Ojha's disdainful remarks about his reprehensible tendencies......
 Better sense however prevailed as Messrs Tewary and Bahutule stepped in and mediated a peace settlement that was acceptable to both the sparring parties; matters were however escalated to the level of the Cricket Association Of Bengal President (Saurav "Dada" Ganguly) who firstly gave the two former team India cricketers a piece of his mind before impressing upon them the express need to set aside their reported differences in the larger interests of their struggling team.......
 The storm seems to have blown over for now and here's hoping that better sense and sanity prevails in the ranks throughout the remainder of the domestic cricketing season.......

ON IMPENDING HAIR TRANSPLANTS AND OTHER SUCH MATTERS.......

Pardon me for thinking that I had heard every plausible as well as implausible reason for loss of form and marked dip in performance levels; but this one certainly left me scratching my noggin' in frustration and disbelief.......
 Out of favour Haryana medium pacer Mohit Sharma who last featured in an international ODI fixture way back in October 2015 against the rampaging South Africans attributed his alarming dip in form and fortune to his receding hair levels and impending baldness......
 Sharma who was literally taken to the cleaners by the Proteas batters (he conceded 84 runs in the seven overs that he sent down) was seen in the vicinity of a Gurgaon based hair transplant facility a few days back when he made this bizarre; seemingly insane and unintentionally hilarious remarks.......
 Mohit who has since become a regular in the Haryana Ranji Trophy team and ensnared 16 wickets for his sate team in the five fixtures that he has featured in thus far including two impressive and laudable five wicket hauls on pitches or surfaces that were less than conducive to his form of bowling.......
Resolutely and steadfastly on the comeback trail; this comeback man hopes that a hair transplant and other allied treatments herald a change in sagging fortunes; form; fate and karma........
 I for one am hoping and praying that his prayers are answered as team India certainly needs the services of Dhoni's favoured "go to" man in the shorter formats of the iconic game as soon as possible......

JOHN DRILLS SOME MUCH NEEDED SENSE INTO THE HEADS AND MINDS OF INDIFFERENT PRODUCERS.......

An enraged;infuriated;incensed and livid John Abraham took to various social networking sites to express his sense of dismay; outrage and distress at the senseless; needless and utterly avoidable deaths of two junior actors during the course of the filming of the climax scene of a Kannada film.......
 John who is currently recuperating from multiple knee operations that were literally forced upon him by a series of injuries suffered during the course of essaying particularly arduous and life altering stunts in his next action potboiler "Force 2" posted a series of his heavily strapped leg on his instagram and other accounts in order to highlight and create the much needed awareness about the perils associated with performing these life threatening stunts every single time.......
 Justifying his rather eccentric and hotly debated decision to post a series or then virtual album of photographs of his strapped leg et all Mr. Abraham acerbically and acidly quipped that the producer; director; stunt director and the rest of the unit of the said Kannada film should be arrested forthwith and made to recompense the bereaved families of the now deceased junior artistes to the tune of Rs. 1 crore each in order to mitigate the sufferings and unfillable void created in the lives and times of the grieving families; kith and kin of the two performers........
 Far from satisfied with his tirade John extrapolated the necessity to exercise all due care; precautions and safety measures while shooting all such stunts as even as minor mistake; error or miscalculation could make the difference between a debilitating injury and untimely death of the actors performing or essaying the same.......
Drawing his fans attention to the multiple injuries suffered by him on every conceivable and unimagined part of his anatomy at one time or the other during the course of his 15 odd year long film career John observed that he had nearly lost one of his legs after breaking the same in more than three places while he horribly miscalculated the consequences of enacting a particularly taxing stunt on the sets of "Force 2" that laid him low for months rather than weeks.....
. As John admitted; "the show should certainly go on no matter what; but definitely not at the invaluable cost of human lives and limbs that cannot be replaced either in the short and long run".......
 Signing off by castigating all those producers who were more than willing to shell out crores of rupees to shoot song; romantic and other such sequences that added lustre and splendour to their under production ventures while cutting corners when it came to deathly and gravity defying stunts John hoped and prayed that better sense and sanity would prevail as human lives could not be lost as a result of a grubby producers callousness or tight fistedness.......

MOST "CONTROVERSIAL AND DEBATED" FILM IN HISTORY........

What's it with Karan Johar's latest magnum opus "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" and the endless plethora of controversies associated with the same......
 As if the brouhaha crested by the scions of the legendary Mohammad Rafi and the supposed slights meted out to the immortal crooner were not enough of a dampener; her comes the news of Bappi Lahiri's (or then Bappi Da as he is fondly referred to) son lambasting Johar for lampooning one of his bardesque father's evergreen compositions in the film's soundtrack that is currently lording the charts.......
While Rafi's son and enraged younger brother took umbrage to the reference made to this singer par excellence crying (Johar's and his team of writers words not yours truly) far more often than singing at his mellifluous best; the younger Lahiri (Bappa Lahiri) mouthed the choicest epithets and gave Johar a piece of his mind for having the temerity and gumption to parody his father's everlasting composition "O Taki' O Taki from the 80's blockbuster 'Himmatwala'" as "Tacky O Tacky".......
 Call it a case of sour grapes of whatever else you will; but Bappa Lahiri neither minced his acerbic words or then pulled his punches while adroitly quipping that while there is no denying the fact that both he and his immortal Dad are deeply perturbed and consternated by Johar's gall and impertinence they expected none better from a supposedly celebrated and highly acclaimed film maker who constantly keeps churning out one "decadent and fossilised turnip after the other" with painstaking regularity.......
 One wonders whether Johar's magnum opus that has so far added a little over Rs. 200 crore to his already burgeoning kitty will go down in history as the most "controversial and spited" film ever made what with ban;lawsuit;boycott and other such threats making headlines rather than it's supposed artistic merit and exemplary content........

JACKIE'S HOPING THAT HIS PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED........

Trust the director par excellence Rajkumar Hirani to pull off the casting coup of the last decade and more.......
 According to news emanating from the Hirani production unit; veteran 59 year old actor Jaikishen or Jackie Shroff (as he is better known) might just end up essaying the iconic role of the late Sunil Dutt in the yet to be launched biopic on the controversial and troubled life and times of Sanjay "Baba" Dutt......
 Somewhat reluctantly and reservedly letting the cat out of the bag; a largely recalcitrant Jackie who has come to be known for his monosyllabic replies confirmed the news that he had undergone the due process of a "look and screen" test for the dream role after being approached by none other than Rajkumar Hirani in person but it was to early to start celebrating as he was yet to sign on the dotted line.......
 As things stand at the present moment; the nation's current heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor has been confirmed as the leading man in the proposed biopic that is slated to go on the floors in the first week of January 2017 and Jackie might just end up essaying the much coveted role of the senior Dutt as Hirani was supposedly overwhelmed with his brief portrayal of one of Hindi filmdom's eternal legends......
 Shedding further light on the subject a pleasantly verbose Jackie quips" yes it is indeed true that I did condescend to do a 'look and screen test' last week; the feedback received from Raju and others in his unit was humbling; encouraging and positive; it will be one of the most difficult roles that I have essayed in my 30 odd year long career but then we artistes thrive on such unforeseen challenges.......
 One may do well to recall the fact that the very same role was offered to the living legend Shri Amitabh Bachchan and unparalleled actor Aamir Khan in the past but the duo expressed their unwillingness to portray the same as they were of the opinion that they were not worthy enough to play the same.......
 Jackie for one though is keeping his fingers crossed hoping against hope that he will be the chosen one to portray this once in a lifetime role and has even begun priming himself for the same by trying to recall the minutest detail of the seven odd hours that he spent in the august company of Dutt Sahab in tandem with "Baba" (Sanjay Dutt) his friend; companion and confidante of some 35 odd years standing........

BE ON YOUR GUARD AS STALKERS ARE ON THE PROWL.......

Be doubly careful and vigilant when you venture out on your own as unholy stalkers might just end up causing you untold harm and misery......
 A 16 year old class ten student and life long resident of Rajasthan's hallowed Ajmer city found herself facing a dire and life threatening/altering predicament when the 22 year old man who had been incessantly stalking and harassing her for the last six odd months in tandem with his comrade in arms ended up abducting; physically assaulting; grievously injuring and threatening her before letting her off at a deserted and desolate location........
 According to police sources this distressing; alarming and disturbing incident occurred a little after 8:30 pm or so on the fateful and eventful Sunday late evening when the complainant (victim) was on her way home after attending her usual tutorial classes........
 She had traversed a little more than half her slated journey when she was suddenly accosted by the main accused 22 year old Saleem and his accomplice Anwar who bundled her into their car much against her will and consent and subsequently sexually violated her; caused untold physical harm and as has become the norm in almost all such instances threatened her with deathly consequences before abandoning her at a dark; desolate; deserted and somewhat shady spot some ten odd kilometers or so away from her stereotypical middle class home at around 1:30 am or so in the wee hours of Monday morning.......
 Shaken beyond reasonable belief and copiously bleeding from the numerous injuries inflicted on her delicate and budding persona by her tormentors and torturers; the doughty 16 year old somehow or the other managed to wend her way home at around 6 am or so all thanks to a conscientious and caring auto driver who dropped her home safely and securely.........
 Keeping her collective wits about her with the greatest of difficulty the teenager tearfully narrated her sordid ordeal to her disbelieving and crestfallen parents who firstly lodged a police complaint against the accused and subsequently rushed her to a nearby super speciality hospital where a series of tests performed on her confirmed the gory fact that she had been repeatedly sexually abused........
 Swinging into action with surprising and remarkable agility; the Ajmer Police sleuths successfully/adroitly managed to nab the two accused young men at around 8 pm or so on the very same Monday late evening from their favourite watering hole on the outskirts of the city and registered cases against them under all the relevant and applicable sections of the IPC as well as POCSO Act.........
The accused duo were produced before a judicial magistrate a little after 11 pm (on Monday night) or so at his residence and the very same judicial functionary confined or then remanded them to 14 days judicial custody.........
 This heinous and sinister crime most foul has certainly set the alarm bells ringing within the length and breadth of this holy and pious city and literally forced the hand of parents to ensure the safety and security of their teenaged daughters by any means whatsoever art their command........

ESPOUSING ALL THE RIGHT CAUSES........

The largely forgotten and obscure Vivek Oberoi might neither be the darling of the paparazzi and Hindi Film Industry bigwigs; but he has certainly got denizens of the marginalised and downtrodden sections of Indian society stoutly rooting for him.......
 One may do well to recall the irrefutable and undeniable fact that Vivek's association with philanthropic and humanitarian causes began almost a decade and half or so ago when the younger Oberoi stepped up to the plate and did more than his bit to rehabilitate and provide succour to the thousands of victims of the tsunami that created havoc and mayhem in their ubiquitous life and times........
Mr. Oberoi has gallantly gone on to adopt villages in Tamil Nadu; Andhra Pradesh and last but not the least contributed his considerable mite to the Modi government's much touted "Van Dhan Jan Dhan initiative" that heralds the cause of and provides a new lease of life to handicrafts; bio fuels and such other articles; goods that are produced solely and wholely using natural ingredients garnered from Indian forests.......
 In addition to the afore mentioned social and community initiatives; the Oberoi scion is also one of the global spokespersons of the United Nations (World Health Organisations) "Worldwide Tobacco Free Initiative" which aims at eradicating the menace of tobacco abuse within the next two decades or so.......
 In his latest good samaritan avatar the humble and unassuming gent with the proverbial "golden heart" has more than willingly acceded to contribute his invaluable time and might to a social initiative expressly aimed at providing a "dream house" to more than 15,000 families at a jaw dropping and rock bottom price of Rs. 8 lakh or so per two bedroom; hall kitchen unit that will be constructed using locally procured and sourced materials.......
 Taking to his twitter handle in an effort to create awareness and promote the same an euphoric and exultant younger Oberoi quipped "It is indeed true that I have consented to become the face of a community housing initiative that will be providing two bedroom dwellings to a little more than 15,000 families in Thane district's Shahpur area at an utterly affordable and pocket friendly cost"........
 "Construction is on in full swing and we hope to hand over the keys of all 15,000 odd homes constructed/raised under this one of it's kind initiative before the onset of the monsoons in late May/early June 2017".......
 Way to go Mr. Oberoi may your ranks swell by the thousands......

LATEST VICTIM OF A DANGEROUS AND DEATHLY OBSESSION........

Will The Yadav clan ensure that the family of this dowry victim receives the much sought after justice and retribution or then will they continue to turn a blind eye to the complete and utter breakdown of the law and order machinery in their home borough as they have done for the last four and a half years........
 A fateful and ,macabre Tuesday saw 40 year old Kanpur resident Sunita breathing her last after she was willfully and demonically set on fire by her absconding/fugitive husband Ram Pratap and in-laws as she had failed to give them a heir or then bear any offspring even after seventeen odd years of holy (????) matrimony.......
 Ram Balak Singh Tomar (Sunita's inconsolable elder brother) could not believe his ears when he received a telephone call from a person who chose not to reveal his identity at around 8:30 pm or so on the deathly Tuesday late evening informing him that his beloved younger sister had abruptly and heinously joined the ranks of the dear departed........
 An alarmed and distraught Ram Balak immediately made a beeline towards his sister's marital home in the city's Bharu Village (Bidhnoo Area) with a few family members in tow where he was confronted with the inhuman sight of his sister's partly charred body lying on the floor in an unceremonious heap........
Hoping against hope he rushed his younger sibling's mortal remains to the nearest government run medical facility where he was duly informed that the victim had breathed her last at least three or so hours before she was brought to the said hospital.......
 Left with no other recourse Singh informed the police sleuths manning the precincts of the nearest police station about the gruesome developments and a team/posse of men in khakhi reached the hospital at around 1 am or so in the wee hours of Wednesday morning and duly proceeded to record a crestfallen Singh's statement........
 In his rambling and sometimes incoherent narration Ram Balak named his brother-in-law Ram Pratap; his mother; younger sister and her husband as being the prime suspects in his beloved sister's untimely and untoward demise as the four of them were constantly barracking and haranguing Sunita for her pronounced inability to bestow them with the much desired male heir who would ensure the longevity of their lineage and family name........
 Berating his fate and misfortune; Singh bemoaned the irrefutable fact that he had sent his long suffering and abused sister back against her will and consent on the three odd occasions where she mustered up the conviction and gumption to walk out of her marital hell and seek the confines of her familiar and cherished family home.........
 As things stand at the present moment; a case of murder and destruction of evidence has been booked against the four fugitives/accused and all neighbouring police stations in the adjoining cities/districts have been requested to be on the lookout for the desperadoes and take them into custody as soon as they are spotted....... One more hapless and seemingly defenceless woman bites the dust as this obsession with male progeny seems to be getting the better of most people's sanity and sense of reasoning more often than not.......

DONALD TRUMP SIGNED; SEALED AND DELIVERED........

Is "Geda" the monkey king or then United States Presidential candidate Donald Trump cocking a snook at us and testing our self imposed limits of gullibility and credulity.......
According to reports emanating in certain sections of the Chinese state run media; "Geda-the monkey king" (so christened as his uncanny and seemingly outlandish predictions end up causing his legions of fawning fans 'goosebumps' and palpitations) predicted a virtual landslide in favour of Trump in the ongoing US presidential elections.......
 A honoured and valued resident of the iconic and famed Shiyanhu Ecological Park for the last eight odd years; the "monkey king" on a stereotypical and balmy Friday afternoon not only predicted/picked Donald Trump as the next President but also delivered a resounding kiss smack on the billionaire tycoons lips......
 "Geda" was resplendently attired in a sparkling or then should I say shockingly yellow T-shirt bearing the legend "monkey king of the world" and towered by two life sized cut outs of the two wannabe presidential candidates......
 This clairvoyant monkey who recently predicted the winner of the recently concluded European Football Championships with much elan and panache gaily proceeded to crown Trump's life sized portrait and deliver the now celebrated smack on his puckered lips......
 Well; well; well will wonders ever cease; Trump has not only succeeded in his sterling efforts at wooing increasingly sceptical and suspicious fellow Americans but also literally charmed the pants of the world's/planets one and only "monkey king".......

SHIVRAJ SINGH CHAUHAN'S LATEST BOGEY OR BUGBEAR.......

Will the harangued and beleaguered chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan alos dismiss this unsavoury; sordid and inhuman episode as yet another attempt by political rivals to tarnish and besmirch his supposedly blessed name........
 30 year old Manoj Purohit an assistant primary school teacher for the last seven odd years at a state government run educational institution in Shivpuri District committed suicide by imbibing a highly toxic and poisonous substance as he was unable to come to terms with the humiliation and depravity allegedly meted out to him by police sleuths on the fateful and eventful evening of October 30........
 According to tearful and inconsolable family members Purohit was unceremoniously hauled off by the local police personnel who harboured a deep rooted grouse against him for having complained against their high handedness and immoral methods to the state human rights commission on charges of illegally gambling at a public place earlier in the day......
 Manoj who also successfully helmed his own transportation venture in addition to his school teacher avatar loudly protested his innocence but his plaintive entreaties had little or no effect on the demons in khakhi who allegedly tortured; stripped and debased him by repeatedly making him lick their shoes according to family sources.......
 He was so deeply embittered by the harrowing experience that he imbibed this yet to be identified poisonous substance within a couple of hours of returning from his area of confinement and was rushed to the nearest government run medical facility by alarmed and distraught family members who found him foaming from the mouth in the wee hours of October 31........
 Purohit however succumbed to the deathly effects or then should I say the after effects of the life threatening substance in the wee hours of November 5 despite the doctors yeoman efforts to revive and resuscitate him.......
 His irate; incensed and infuriated family members have demanded either a CBI enquiry or then a judicial enquiry conducted under the supervision of a sitting high court judge in order to identify the culprits and initiate punitive action against the very same; will the chief minister oblige that indeed is the million dollar or then rupee question.......

WASHING DIRTY FAMILY LINEN IN PUBLIC........

Washing dirty family linen in public seems to have become the norm withing the rarefied echelons or then hallowed avenues of so called celebrity families.......
 Recently ousted Bigg Boss Season 9 contestant Akanksha Sharma whose only claim to fame is her short lived marriage to the "pied piper of Punjab" Yuvraj Singh's younger sibling seems to have perfected the dubious art of getting more than her due share of the limelight what with her penchant and proclivity to badmouth and defame the celebrated Singh clan at any and given opportunity.......
 Akanksha who firstly bad mouthed the fiery left hander who has been languishing in the cricketing wilderness off late with her outlandish and incredulous claims about Yuvi being a heroin addict; junkie; charsi and the likes; certainly seems to have bitten off more than she can chew with her bizarre and seemingly insane claims about Shabnam Singh (Yuvi's doughty and inimitable mater) forcing her to consummate her wedding with her younger son against her will and consent.......
 One has certainly heard Rajni Kothari's evergreen dictum about a woman being another woman's worst/arch/sworn enemy; nightmare or any other hellish predicament you can conjure up; but I for one cannot envision a situation or scenario where one can force the feisty and irrepressible Akanksha to do anything against her expressed will and desires........
 As mentioned earlier; Akanksha might have landed herself into the proverbial hot soup what with news from the Yuvi camp alluding to the fact that an offended; piqued; flabbergasted and disgusted Shabnam Singh having run out of tolerance/patience and issuing instructions to her family's legal advisors to file a civil defamation suit against the supposedly wronged party and claim a compensation running into crores of rupees for having shown the temerity of dragging the Singh family through this quagmire of damned lies; infame and innuendo.......
 The most efficacious and desirable manner of shutting off this braggart and loudmouth once and for all methinks.......

PIONEERING AND MUCH DESIRED COMMUNITY INITIATIVE.......

While the residents of the national capital are literally choking/asphyxiating to death and doom following an abrupt spurt in the alarming and life threatening pollution levels; these 250 odd wannabe Surat (Gujarat) based grooms are setting a noteworthy trend for others to follow.......
 Yes believe your eyes for a change as you did indeed read it right; these wannabe grooms and their respective relatives; brides; family members; friends and hangers on will all arrive in regal style and panache atop or then aboard ubiquitous and nondescript bicycles in their sterling effort to educate and enlighten fellow Surat residents on the deathly threat posed by burgeoning pollution levels in their beloved city and their immediate surroundings.......
An annual community initiative pioneered by the Saurashtra Patel Seva Samaj; the 58th such annual event wholely and solely dedicated to weeding out the omnipotent evil of corruption will be organised on November 7 at a celebrated and much sought after venue in the "Diamond City" and the nuptials of 258 brides and grooms will be solemnised under one roof as an integral part of this one of it's kind community initiative......
 Signalling a welcome break from traditional Gujarati customs; traditions; social mores and practices; these 258 enterprising grooms and their baraatis will all arrive on cycles expressly hired/purchased for the emulatory purpose rather than the much touted and stereotyped cavalcade of motor cars and buses........
These inspiring and kindred souls thereby hope to create awareness about and spread the message about the perils/dangers of burgeoning pollution levels in their native city and thereby urge fellow city dwellers to step up to the plate and do their bit about significantly reducing or then arresting the wannabe smart city's perilously increasing carbon footprint........
One amongst the 258 odd couples couples namely Nita and Harkishan whose names were drawn out out of a pool by the honourable mayor of the city will be accorded pride of place and be bestowed with the unique and sagely honour of leading the massive procession........
 Here's hoping and praying that such welcome and environment friendly community initiatives become the order of the day in every nook and cranny of our glorious and ancient motherland who is literally choking with every inhalation.......

ALL FOR THE SAKE OF A TEN RUPEE COIN.......

While every member of the ruling Yadav clan in India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh is going blue in the face denying any rift or then fratricide within the same and touting Akhilesh Yadav's self promoting and aggrandising "yatra" as a victory march' utter lawlessness; murder and mayhem seem to rule the roost with the passage of time......
 In the umpteenth incident of wild; wanton and seemingly insane murder/rage reported from the troubled and crime infested state a Mungisapur (Kanpur) based hotelier allegedly bludgeoned a hapless and reportedly defenceless gent to death as he committed the unpardonable and heinous crime of settling his bill with a legally permissible ten rupee coin......
 According to aghast and disbelieving bystanders a particularly heated; venomous and acrimonious spat erupted between the deceased 35 year old gent Mahendra and the incensed hotel owner at around 11:30 pm or so on the fateful Wednesday night when Mahendra settled his proferred bill of Rs.160 with three fifty rupee notes and a legally validated/endorsed ten rupee coin.......
 The very sight of the ubiquitous ten rupee coin however raised the hotel owner's hackles to the extent that he ended up with a deadly and ominous iron rod in his hands and brought the same down on Mahendra's head time and again before he collapsed in a senseless heap in a rapidly spreading pool of his own invaluable life blood.......
 Fellow customers who belatedly realised the enormity of the deathly situation rushed a senseless and seemingly lifeless Mahendar to the nearest medical facility where the on duty doctors pronounced him brought dead on arrival.......
 Cops from the local police thana who were summoned to the hospital by the hospital's medical superintendent registered a case of murder against the elusive and yet to be identified hotel owner on the basis of the statements/eye witness accounts narrated by the fellow customers who happened to frequent the eatery at the time......
 Two police teams have since been constituted and entrusted with the onerous responsibility of tracking/hunting down the absconding/accused hotel owner and bringing him to book.......
 One is really forced to sit back and reflect about the futility and intrinsic cost of a supposedly priceless and invaluable human life that could be snuffed out all for the sake of a supposedly "illegal and impermissible" ten rupee coin.......

AS BIZARRE AND OUTLANDISH AS IT CAN GET........

Can it get any more bizarre; obscure; irrelevant; heretic and pointless than this; if your answer lies in the affirmative then you need to beat this one......
 According to reports appearing in various sections of the media; Aboobacker a lifelong resident of Kozhikode's Mukkom Area denied his first born his/her due share of mother's milk for well over 24 hours as he claimed that a local preacher had forewarned him about the perilous and supposedly life threatening consequences that could befall the new born if he/she as much as imbibed a single drop of her mother's eternal nectar until the muezzin had given the clarion call for the day's fifth and final namaaz session.......
 Exasperated and infuriated doctors at Mukkom's famed EMS Hospital pleaded with the adamant Aboobacker and touted a virtual plethora of reasons to reverse his illogical and seemingly insane decision but Aboobacker stuck to his guns and stoutly denied his first born his/her due right until 7:30 pm on a fateful and eventful Thursday evening when he forcibly got his first born and utterly bewildered spouse discharged despite the sage advice meted out to him by a team of doctors and psychologist........
 Aboobacker's first born (a son) was ushered into the world with a lot of fanfare and celebration at around 1:30 pm or so on a typical Kerala Wednesday afternoon at the afore mentioned hospital and his father heralded his arrival by denying him his naturally endowed rights and privileges as his father repeatedly insisted that this supposedly "know it all" preacher had educated him about the new born's ability to survive for up to 48 hours on the basis of the nutrients that abounded or then resided in his (newly born son's) naval chord.......
 Having reached the end of their collective tether and having run out of patience and fortitude; the on duty doctors at the time finally ended up summoning the men in khakhi from an adjoining police station and instructed them on the crying need for drilling some well deserved sense and sanity into this religious zealot's psyche and the jaded and world weary police sleuths who till then thought that they had seen it all were amazed and bewildered by the gent's vehemence and petulance.......
This merry go around (if one call it that) or rigmarole continued until 7:30 pm or so until the next evening (Thursday evening) when Aboobacker got his wife and child forcibly discharged from the hospital despite the doctor's clearly elucidating their reservations and concerns to the contrary.......
 As to whether the new born was surreptitiously or then clandestinely allowed to imbibe or ingest his first drops of the elixir of life; two contrasting versions are doing the rounds as the cops claim that the infant's mother fed him more than once while the sleuths successfully managed to engaged Aboobacker in an utterly fruitless and meaningless decision while the doctors and medical staff on duty refute any eventuality of the same having occurred.......
 Well; what else can say in conclusion other than repeating the age old fact/dictum about it taking all kinds to make this world.......