The king, rather raja, of all scams reigns unsurpassed. 3G and even 4G may be the in-thing now in tele technology but 2G would never become obsolete as far as scandals go. And the connections have always been quite clear despite an orchestrated maze of missed calls, crosstalk, wrong numbers and line disturbances.
Everlasting echoes
The passing of music legends PB Sreenivas and TK Ramamurthy in a span of four days is sure to send nostalgic nuts like me down memory lane. Along with MSV, KV Mahadevan, TMS, P Susheela, Kannadasan and Valee, they spawned a musical pranava in movies that would remain and resonate forever.
The gloves are off
Not that we needed confirmation. But it is now official that the raging IPL is pure entertainment. The Chennai bench of the Income Tax tribunal has declared that the ‘IPL is an entertainment venture organised with the sole aim of harvesting profits’.
Brothers in alms, alas !
We left last week when the Dutch left and the British landed, circa, 18th century. Here’s a quote of 1796 vintage from a British official that I lifted from some books I have been reading: ‘Two nations from the very ancient period had divided between them the possessions of the land. The Sinhalese inhabiting the southern and western parts and the Tamils in the northern and eastern districts.
