Saturday, July 4, 1998
Movie magic fails to do wonders
When most of your screen demigods including Sivaji Ganesan, Rajinikant and Kamal Haasan take to the streets today, they certainly have a crying (sans glycerine) reason. Just check this out: All over Tamil Nadu, 192 cinema halls have shut down in the last couple of years and at least 200 more are on the verge.
BMC At Fault, Rubbish
People who have been calling Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation names, blaming it for the recent havoc caused by the rains, should have been there when a drainage block at Antop Hill was being cleared on Wednesday. Out came steel utensils, truck tyres, shoes and a huge pile of plastic bags that could could have choked the Suez Canal. Who threw these objects into the drain? None of my staff, not the municipal commissioner nor the mayor. Then why were they blamed when the low-lying areas of Sion and King Circle, serviced by the blocked drain, were flooded?
Madras Musings for Mumbai to mull over
relocating ticket booths, the effects of cyclones on hoardings, the absence of Tamilian Test cricketers, pay toilets and the use of acronyms by the paper (the last came from a retired professor who admitted that ``having been a Maths/Statistics teacher for nearly 3-1/2 decades, I can't help trying to shorten things whenever an opportunity occurs.'').
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