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TitBits - 018 Comments on Editorials 12th. November, 2002 The editor of Navhind Times makes no bones to say that the affair at Delhi' s Ansal Plaza is a stage managed affair, all with the complicity of the higher-ups in the security ring and the government. It is highly indictive of our security forces, our top government officials who seem to be trying to fool the people of India with games they plan and play to gain public sympathy. That the Delhi Police should resort to satellite tracking of the eye witness, heaping him with fabricated cases, intimidating him with summons etc is a gimmick well know to us. Wonder how come the police does not utilize the same intelligent tracking system to catch the successful terrorists before they succeed? The very fact that the Delhi police were successful in getting the two terrorists before they blew up the place was in itself suspicious. Now we know why. Thank you Arun Sinha for giving us the strait talk. The headlines "Ultras killed in encounter at Ansal Plaza: report The police today claimed that the post-mortem on the bodies of two terrorists killed in the Ansal Plaza shoot-out has confirmed that they died in an encounter. There could'nt be anything more hilarious than this. For its part, the editorial of Herald minces no words in accusing I.D. Shukla of gross incompetence. It is also accusing I. D. Shukla directly of being involved with the chicanery that the steel rolling mills play. If we are not mistaken, I.D. Shukla must be the high ranking police officer who was supposed to have been receiving haftas from the IOC pilferage racketeers. And no more needs to be said as to why I.D. Shukla is able to resist any attempts to dislodge him from Goa. I don't think that the Goa police has ever reached this low in esteem since liberation of Goa. Somebody should apply for the Guinness Record Actually, the Goa police chief should try the Goan recipe of "KOT'TEN NAK BUDOUN JIU DIU'NK" Will some enterprising Goemkar police officer please tell our IGP and I.D. Shukla in particular, what that means in the Goan language? I hardly think there is dearth of well suited "Kot'teos" in Goa for this unique job. And after the top two, many more should follow until the Goa Police is rid of these chameleons in uniform And Rajan Narayan must know that next time he writes a beauty like this, he should supply the facsimile of the 'Kot'ti' for easier understanding of the persons concerned. And Pramod Khandeparkar has done a good job on Congress' Sonia Gandhi at Mount Abu. She has been saying a lot of things that most of the political leaders were dying to hear. It is a wonder that she has managed to extricate herself from the ring of her mentors who must be sore at the sacrilege she is professing. But no matter how much she goes on talking of coalition arrangements, there are a few important people who are waiting for the right words to come out of her mouth. And even if she mustered enough courage to utter those few magic words, it is most doubtful if dozens of hands will not shoot up around her, wanting to clamp tight over her mouth to stifle the words. "And I am not particularly interested to be the Prime Minister of India" Whow! I can already hear the shrieks of joy EUREKA! EUREKA! Oh! That one was from the maratha Don, Pawar. And oh! that is coming from the distant Sagma. Did I hear one more EUREKA? Ofcourse, indeed. This one is at close range and loud and clear, Dr. Willy doing the Eureka dance. I only hope they all just do it in the bath tubs and not in the wells. That would be the anticlimax otherwise, having waited for nothing for such a long long time in the cold. Cheers Floriano ---------------------------------------------------------- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays) Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule. Nov 07 Creative science, for children, Goa Sc Centre (till 16.11) Nov 10 Corporate summit on IT and biotechnology, Intl Centre (till 11.11) Nov 17 Goan Engineers and Assoc meet, at Pickering, Canada. Nov 20 Fr Agnelo's 75th death anniversary, Pilar Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal ----------------------------------------------------------
