Tenali Rama Reports
Archive for December 2011
`Rajya Sabha hungama was just like Sholay’
New Delhi : It seems no one has had enough of the unfortunate fiasco in Rajya Sabha on Thursday night. In an interview to `Tenali Rama Reports’, well-known director of close to reality socially relevant and politically aware films, Brightness Jha, said every MP reminded him of a character from `Sholay’. Incidentally, Jha had himself directed a film titled `Politics’ which … Continue reading
Rajniti Prasad set for a bigger role
New Delhi : Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi has announced that Rajniti Prasad will be her `muh-bola bhai’ from now on. This Raksha Bandhan, she announced, she will tie a rakhi on the wrist of the Rajya Sabha MP, whose antic of tearing the Lokpal Bill papers in the House on Thursday night created … Continue reading
Storm over language of Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha
New Delhi : “Yeh shemi-kalan kya hai, babua,” asked Lalu Yadav aloud, even as Abhishek Manu Singhvi dwelt considerable time on this facet of English grammar to explain how committed the UPA government was to the Lokpal Bill. Even as hangers on around Lalu at his home looked foxed, he continued, “I think mishtake kar … Continue reading
Anna calls off jail bharo, gloom in Tihar Jail
New Delhi : Union Telecom and IT minister Kapil Sibal has warned Team Anna that his ministry will take a serious view of how the Jail Bharo Andolan wasted precious time of Indians who registered online to lend support to Anna’s campaign. “And now they have cancelled it. This is my problem with the web … Continue reading
Under attack, RSS plans `Knicker pehno andolan’
New Delhi : Union Telecom minister Kapil Sibal, on Digvijay Singh’s insistence, has convened a meeting with internet service providers and websites on December 30. On the agenda is to tell them to stop the RSS feed immediately. “Digvijay ji believes there is a need to purge the system of the word `RSS’. So I have decided … Continue reading
Astrological advice for Anna and Sachin
Mumbai : With two major events due in the last week of 2011, astrologers, numerologists, tarot card readers, parrot card readers and palmists have got into the act. Yes, we are talking about Anna Hazare’s three-day fast from Tuesday and the expectation that Sachin Tendulkar will hit his 100th international hundred in the Boxing Day Test that starts in … Continue reading
Who could be the Lokpal members. Exclusive
New Delhi : Suggestions have been pouring in on who should be the members of the Lokpal. The draft proposed by the government suggests a 9-member Lokpal body, including a chairman. `Tenali Rama Reports’ has in its possession a list of eminent citizens of India who could be members of Lokpal. Chairperson : Mayawati (Since the chairperson has … Continue reading
Who should CBI report to?
New Delhi : Contrary to popular opinion, there is little support for Anna Hazare’s demand that the CBI should be brought under the purview of the Lokpal. On a TV channel’s prime time show, a majority of people from different walks of life in fact, wanted the CBI to be neither under the government nor under Lokpal. This … Continue reading
Why Jaya `unfriended’ Sasikala : Revealed
Chennai : The real reason behind Jayalalithaa `unfriending’ Sasikala in the real world is out. And the culprit is this old photograph that Sasikala had posted on her Facebook profile and tagged Jayalalithaa on it, with the caption `it was lovely to get 40 per cent off’. When Jaya asked Sasikala on Facebook chat what was she talking about, Sasikala revealed she … Continue reading
Rahul chips in for FDI, with potatoes
New Delhi : The Congress Working Committee in an unanimous resolution has thanked Rahul Gandhi for showing the way ahead on FDI in retail. At an election meeting in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, Mr Gandhi told farmers that while their potatoes were bought for one rupee a kg, a packet of potato chips that required … Continue reading
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