Tuesday, September 22, 1998
Speaking out of turn
No one expects the occupant of a Raj Bhavan to ape Mahatma Gandhi's three monkeys who saw no evil, heard no evil and spoke no evil. In fact, as the constitutional head of the state and a representative of the Centre, it is the governor's job to keep an eye on how the state government is functioning and periodically report his or her assessment of the situation to the President.
As usual, God knows
Far and away from the bustling city, on a quiet green hill, I made my way up a steep, meandering pathway to a point from where I could see only the high horizon drooping upon the curving line of the hill-top. And the tranquil blue sky above. I whistled one word, soft and short: ``God!''``Coming, coming,'' He answered.
Not sauce for the gander?
The much-pilloried Romesh Bhandari, former governor of Uttar Pradesh, is now joined at the stocks by another Bhan-dari, S.S., present Governor of Bihar. Romesh Bhandari was a ranking Indian Foreign Service Officer who made it to the top of the IFS before joining the Congress and then being excoriated as an agent of the Samajwadi Party.
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