Sunday, June 14, 1998
FIFA-fo-fum
In the bad old days when civilisation had not yet visited the Danes, they tended to gather in hordes and do battle with their neighbouring kingdoms. If victorious, they would lop off one of the more rounded heads among the vanquished and play football in the public street squares with this trophy.
There's a hole in the mint
A battered biscuit tin with two puppies and a kitten printed on it. Inside, a hoard of coins that would never buy anything any more. Dark, oxidised disks with a hole punched through the centre, the common currency of a bygone age. Also, the huge, weighty medallions of the Company Bahadur's rupee.
Green signal for the railways
While green activists may cheer Union railway minister Nitish Kumar's eco-friendly gesture in Parliament, announcing that the use of plastic in the catering services of the Indian Railways would end, it will be a long while before this happens given the formidable bureaucratic opposition to the move.
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