Coimbatore
In a freak incident, a pickpocket cut off a 43-year-old person’s genitals by mistake. The victim was travelling in a crowded bus when the pickpocket set his eyes on the heavy pocket in the victim’s shorts. In his attempts at tearing off the pocket with a blade, he accidentally cut off the victim’s vital organ. The man, in pain, raised an alarm.
Anthem Mode
Mumbai
The presiding officers of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have found a surefire solution to end rows in the civic hall—they start singing the national anthem. According to the BMC’s code of conduct, each session must be adjourned with a rendition of the anthem. However, of late, corporators are using what is meant to be a mark of respect as an instrument to put an end to arguments with their rivals. Most recently, during the acrimonious debate over the municipal commissio-ner’s circular on slum demolitions, the house was adjourned amidst much cacophony and swearing. Amid the chaos, members of the Opposition began to sing the anthem. Willy-nilly, mayor Mahadeo Deole too joined in. In 1997, a former BMC officer said, the anthem was sung to stop irate Shiv Sena corporators who were trying to disrobe corporator Waqarunissa Ansari.
(Seen in Mid Day)
Wired News
Calcutta
The Telegraph got a copy of a UPSC candidate’s essay on the topic, The Indian Cow:"The cow is a successful animal. Also he is quadrupud and because he is female, he give milk, but will do so when he is got child. He is same like God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. What cant it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and makinds generally. "Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding after eating. He is incessantly in the meadows in the rass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horn, specially so when he is got child. He causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forwards. He has got tail also but not like simila animals. It has hairs on the othr end of the other side. This is done to frigthen away the flies which alight on his body wherupon he gives hit with it. The palms of his feet are soft unto the touchþ#This is the cow." The daily says they "were informed that the candidate passed the exam".
Puff Halo
Hyderabad
The tobacco companies will love this.A s another World Anti-Tobacco Day comes and goes, a godman-in-the-making sits and puffs away in Hyderabad. The offering he loves most is a pack of cigarettes. The tea table kept next to his snake-shaped bed has a heap of cigarette packs of different brands. The sanctified cigarette butt he tosses away is often picked up by an ardent devotee for a drag. Till the other day, the smoking saint who had lost a leg in an accident was a permanent nudist fixture near the Nampally ailway station. Then he acquired the halo.
Seen in The Indian Express
