I feel sorry in saying this, but, yes I was prepared for the cake and the icing. R R Patil calling it a ‘small incident’, Shivraj Patil’s usual incompetency to deal with the situation, reporters asking the families of the deceased “how are they feeling right now? (What sort of a question is that??...and so on.
But the cherry on top came when Vilasrao Deshmukh went to the Taj with his actor son and Ram Gopal Verma. That was the height of insensitivity a leader, no other than the Chief Minister of this very state could exhibit. I am speechless after knowing this. And I cry in despair, is all lost? Are we doomed? Is there no hope when there is such a sick, insensitive leadership that we have elected ourselves?
A prize for short fiction
-
One of the good things that happened over the last year: my short story,
‘Zinnias in the Graveyard’, won third prize (shared with Brecht De
Poortere) at th...
2 weeks ago