Sunday, November 8, 1998
Samata with Mamata
George Fernandes, unrepentant swadeshi-ist and angry trade unionist, khadi-clad socialist and anti-Coca-Colaist, Laloo-baiter and China-hater, minister of defence and defender of ministers and, of course, peripatetic fire-fighter by appointment to the PM, was just back from a special mission, a defeated man. It was a mission that few in his armed forces would have had the courage and indomitable will to sign up for, a mission more dangerous than Siachen, more tricky than bombing Shanghai.
"If Milkha was sincere about the award, he should pay up right now"
Paramjit Singh, the 26-year-old Central Reserve Police Force inspector from Hoshiarpur, is not exactly a pin-up man. However, after smashing the 38-year-old 400-m national record of the legendary Milkha Singh in Calcutta, Paramjit definitely is the man of the moment.
Help, there is a leopard in my lounge!
Not for nothing is the leopard known as the most elusive of the big cats. Living up to its reputation, a male of the species stole its way into the home of Randhir Singh, in the heart of Panchkula, a satellite township of Chandigarh, early on the morning of October 28.
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