Mango Maketh Man
What does Sambhaji Bhide, head of the Hindutva outfit Shiv Pratishthan Hindustan and one of the accused in January바카라s Bhima-Koregaon violence, recommend if you want to be blessed with many strong sons? Severe austerities? Nope. 바카라Mangoes are powerful and nutritious. Some women who ate mangoes from my garden have given birth to sons,바카라 he reportedly said while speaking in Nashik recently. A statistically meaningless claim, to be sure, but some have taken umbrage. NCP MP Supriya Sule was quoted as saying, 바카라For any woman, attaining motherhood ...is a matter of pride. It바카라s unfortunate that a shallow debate is taking place on such a matter,바카라 while the anti-superstition organisation Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmulan Samiti has called for a case against Bhide under the Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Act.
Occupational Hazard
Please specify your profession when you register with the Punjab police바카라s online tenant verification system바카라are you a professional killer, a practitioner of the world바카라s oldest profession or merely a gardner (sic)? A goof-up on www.policesanjh.in has resulted in such lofty vocations as 바카라pimp바카라 바카라hired killer바카라, 바카라bootlegger바카라, 바카라smuggler바카라 and 바카라gambler바카라 being available alongside more mundane professions in a dropdown list. Landlords in the state are legally required to get their tenants registered with the police, and this form includes a separate column to disclose any criminal record바카라but there has been some cross-pollination. A police officer was quoted as saying that if anyone applies under one of these categories, 바카라The police will not only reject the tenant verification application, but may also summon them for questioning.바카라
Thanks, But No Tanks
If you happen to see a lost-looking irrigation tank by the wayside, do hand it over to the district collector. Some 200 posters offering a reward of Rs 1 lakh for whoever finds two 바카라missing바카라 tanks have been put up all over Madurai by S. Sankarpandi, a member of the Tamil Nadu BJP state executive who is in charge of the Madurai zone바카라s youth wing. The move is intended to draw attention to the real fate of the tanks. In the case of one, according to Sankarpandi, 바카라A squatter has filled up the tank with sand and marked a boundary using boulders,바카라 while the other 바카라has been converted into a farm by another squatter.바카라 With several acres of land being dependent on the two now out-of-commission tanks, Sankarpandi approached the collector, and now an official inquiry has reportedly been launched.
Trolls Guard The Crossing
An army of trolls has been marshalled against Shahrukh Khan, whose clan now also boasts a budding politico across the border. Shahrukh바카라s paternal cousin Noor Jehan is running as an independent candidate for the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly seat in Peshawar in the elections to be held in Pakistan on July 25. According to reports, Noor Jehan, who has visited her cousin twice and maintains close contact with the Indian side of the family, says she wants to work for women바카라s empowerment. Praiseworthy if followed through, perhaps바카라but a shade of Indian twitter that couldn바카라t care less chose rather to troll the Bollywood star, with many accusing him of 바카라loving Pakistan바카라.
Blanket Protection
A private car collides with a taxi in Mumbai. A mob gathers and passes a judgment바카라the taxi driver is found guilty and soundly thrashed. He바카라s later unable to convince the cops that the it wasn바카라t his fault. What can you do? Maybe more than you think. Such an incident three years ago prompted Jaydeep Ojha and Prashant Dubey to start Swayam Seva Sanstha, an NGO that helps cabbies. Aside from legal aid, it also provides financial support for sick drivers and blankets for the homeless바카라and holds regular 바카라satsangs바카라 where cabbies can exhibit their musical talents through bhajan singing.
The Human Show
Being dragooned into serving as a human shield by the army last year during elections in Kashmir has been a route to unwelcome celebrity for Farooq Ahmad Dar. He바카라s been fighting for damages since then, but seems like he was offered quite a different form of 바카라compensation바카라 by private TV channel Colors바카라 reality show Bigg Boss. They offered him Rs 50 lakh to participate last July, he claims. He adds that he declined, but the channel has called his claim 바카라speculation바카라 while refusing to confirm or deny whether they had made the offer.
This Troublesome Monk
Sri Lanka has no court of consistory for Galagodaatte Gnanasara to appeal to; the controversial Buddhist monk has been sentenced to six months in prison for his actions two years ago when he stormed into a courtroom and intimidated activist Sandya Eknaligoda. The latter was in court for the case of her husband, journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda, who has been missing for eight years, with the armed forces alleged to have had a role in his disappearance. Gnanasara, leader of the hardline Bodu Bala Sena, threatened Eknaligoda and called her husband an 바카라LTTE spy바카라. He has been fined a small amount and ordered to pay Eknaligoda LKR 50,000 (about Rs 21,200) as compensation.
Jump the Mother Gun
The role a mother ought to play in her child바카라s life is a debatable thing. Many mothers the world over have been burdened with the exclusive responsibility of child rearing. But decades of the feminist movement have made the debate go through a sea change.
Imran Khan, it seems, gives a damn for this change. 바카라A mother has the biggest influence on children...I disagree with this western concept, this feminist movement; it has degraded the role of a mother. My mother had the greatest impact on my life,바카라 blurted Imran in a recent TV interview.
Predictably, the comment went viral in social media and came under heavy criticism, especially by women.
Sample a tweet: 바카라Feminism has never looked down on motherhood. Feminists have worked in every country to create paid leave and laws to protect mothers and safety nets so that mothers don바카라t leave work to care for kids. Educate yourself.바카라
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, whose party is one of the main contenders in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the country, has been at the centre of a series of controversies over the past few months. (Have a look at last week바카라s Postcard for another episode).
The PTI chairman바카라s remarks on motherhood also came up for criticism in Pakistan바카라s mainstream dailies. Most came out with commentaries giving Imran a lesson on both motherhood and feminism.
Giving a concise lesson in feminism basics to Imran, she added that the rhetoric of mothers as the ultimate grand influencers of all humanity who should be revered and idolised is 바카라annoying, exhausting, sentimental, limiting and patently, completely and entirely untrue.바카라
Obviously, mothers have played a central role in their children바카라s lives, because willy-nilly they are the only parental figure present to provide care, wrote Malik-Hussain.
바카라And what gives the Great Leader (Imran) any authority to make judgments on the virtues of motherhood, particularly in the context of feminism? Is he a mother or is he a feminist?바카라 she also said.
You don바카라t need experts to deduce that if Imran continues to hit his own wicket at such regular intervals, he may be retired hurt by the time of the coming parliamentary polls.
Illustrations by Sajith Kumar
