Falcons
An ability to innovate, plus speed and power, make this a formidable predator.
So you thought you knew all about
P.Chidambaram
Hopes float as the finance minister prepares to present his fourth budget. Spot the faux pas.
A. Returning after completing studies at Harvard in the ‘60s, he was a rabid votary of the command economy.
B. From an affluent Chettiar family, he decided against joining the family business and became a lawyer.
C. Joined the Congress when the party lost power in 1967, stuck with Indira Gandhi through the emergency.
D. Became commerce minister in the Rao government in 1991, but quit over his family’s links to scam-tainted Fairgrowth, never to return.
Answer D. He returned as commerce minister in 1995.
We’ve driven (top down) the new Honda City,Tata Indigo and Fiat Siena. Each is a superb car as long as you’re sitting in it and appreciating the remarkable luggage capacity. But what dark force inspired their designersto copy the silhouette of a Victorian lady with a fetish for attaching steel mesh frames to her bottom?
--Hari Menon
