Saffron poster boy Narendra Modi and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa seem to hit it off well. Or so Eavesdropper hears of Modi?s famous lunch with Jayalalithaa at her Chennai residence the other day, the details of which are being supplied by sundry local BJP leaders. These leaders were kept off-bounds by Jayalalithaa?s security, but they claimed knowledge of what had happened all the same. The lunch was excellent, they assured mediapersons, reeling off details of the menu. Nobody dared ask their source of information. Was the menu fixed in advance?
Om shanti
Kolkata?s two-day long Asian Mining Congress ended with loud chants of ?Om? and ?Shiva Stratam?. Nothing very odd about that, except that it came during valedictory remarks by Union minister of state for mines T Subbarami Reddy. No sooner had he begun speaking than he decided to ?distribute? the spiritual power of ?Shiv Shakti? to all delegates. Thus began the hymns, and the venue was soon resonant with the sound of the celestial syllable Om. ?Is he better suited to the BJP brand of politics?? asked a delegate.
Sophist?s choice
The birds, or else. The villagers of Margram in West Bengal?s Birbhum district, are not used to being spoken to with such gruffness. But that?s the dire choice they were given by bird-culling teams last week. Nobody told them about the flu. So they resisted.