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More than two decades ago, a tall beautiful twelve year old girl waved her “dandiya’ stick at me and smiled. I looked at her, my grown-up daughter and there I was standing outside the doors of the maternity ward.
“A girl, sir,” the nurse said and disappeared back into the confines of the unknown room.
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Some time back I read about a glamorous wedding that took place in Goa, between a former Miss World and an Indian tennis star. One had just divorced his wife a few months back and the other had broken up with her boyfriend.
How fast we get in and out of relationships.
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The ninety two year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady after many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. “I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room… just wait.”
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As I hear that Mallikarjun Kharge wants no debate with Shashi Tharoor, for the Congress president elections, I wonder how any candidate can be elected without hearing him speak?
‘’Sir, why are you afraid of debates?”
“I don’t want one, because I’ve already been blessed!”
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And as I see the battle royal raging in the Congress as to who will sit on the throne, I must say that most of our leaders in other political parties look pretty uncomfortable on the thrones they are sitting one and occupy just a portion of the royal chair.
Which got me wondering; what right had they to sit on a throne? Were they born into royal families that give them immediate access to such princely seat?