“… Kitni sadiyon ka qatl hota hai ek lamhe ki badgumani se…” Has the US realized that Manmohan Singh won’t do anymore and so just like Musharraf, there’s a need to remove Singh, too. Was it a mere coincidence that the NGOs supporting Anna Hazare are funded by the West? All the TV channels that were trying to outdo each other with the movement have some American tag or the other attached to them – CNN, Fox, Reuters, or someone else. Are there plans to organize a rally at Kashmir’s Lal Chowk? Does the US have the same views about Kashmir that it did about Serbia? No matter how much a free Kashmir benefits the US agenda, India’s united and sovereign image is sure to take a beating. Sonia is not on the American focus from any angle, but will a mere change in prime ministership be the end of our woes?

At a rally by Sonia Gandhi in Tamil Nadu, P Chidambaram, G K Vasan, and Jayanthi Natarajan were supposed to come but at the last minute, none of them could. Actually, all three of them wanted to show their displeasure to Sonia Gandhi.

On Friday evening, New Delhi hosted Jashn-e-bahar mushaira, where everyone from Sheheryar and Javed Akthar to well-known poets from all over the world were present. Several prominent figures were also present. Before the mushaira started, Justice Markendeya Katju of the Supreme Court came on the dias and spoke in his Allahbadi dialect and set the mood. From there he requested that the next Bharat Ratna, whenever it is given, should be given to Mirza Ghalib. Meira Kumar took the stage after him and said, “We have seen the judge give judgments several times but are seeing him make an appeal for the first time.” She then said, “I lend my voice to Justice Katju and feel that the next Bharat Ratna should surely be given to Mirza Ghalib.”

Neeta Ambani is the wife of India’s richest man. So she knows how to been in the news at all times. And anyways, it is the time of paid news. The TV cameras were set in such a way that every one in a while, they would come back to focus on Neeta Ambani’s box, where she was cheering on with her husband, kids, Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao and Rajanikanth. The other VIP boxes got negligible coverage, so those such as Kapil Sibal, and Arun Jaitley came out of the Presidential box and went into Neeta’s. They knew this is the box to be in.

The people from Mumbai Cricket Association got fed up of making place in the Presidential Box on the final match day. First there were sofas set for the Indian and Sri Lankan dignitaries but the numbers kept increasing. Kapil Sibal, Gadkari, Subodhkant Sahay, Advani, Ajay Maken, Jyotiraditya Scindhia, Shahnawaz Hussain, the number increased to 200. There was place kept for Rahul Gandhi too, but he chose to sit with his friends in the common public stalls, knowing that his politics involved the common man, after all.

Rahul Gandhi arrived in Mumbai with eight other friends to watch the India-Sri Lanka final, that too on a regular airlines’ Y-class travel. After the win, Rahul and his friends partied the night away. The heir-to-be first celebrated the win in Worli, and then one of his friends took him to Salman Khan’s house, where they partied till 6 am.

Indian won the World Cup but there are still doubts about us having the real trophy. Actually, the entire controversy about the shield that is with the custom department, is a roving shield that stays at the ICC headquarters in Dubai. The winning team captain was actually supposed to get this trophy. But some of the foreign officials of the ICC who got the trophy into India asked for 250 free passes from Mumbai custom and when the department said it can’t, the entire furore happened. And anyways the roving shield is only for photo ops with the media. The real one is with India.

The madness called IPL is on. But its former commissioner Lalit Modi’s woes don’t seem to end. For now he is in London with family. There are several cases against him. Sources reveal that he recently called up Vasundhara Raje and told her how an Indian industrialist, who calls himself close to a central minister, asked him for Rs 50 crore. The man has allegedly threatened Modi that if he didn’t pay up, he would ask the foreign ministry to file a few more cases against him. It is worth mentioning that the matter is with the ED.

Since Kripashankar has taken over the Maharashtra Congress, not all’s been well with him. He may have got a clean chit with the Madhu Kauda case, but there is a case against him for disproportionate assets and the Maharashtra State Corruption Bureau has made all preparations to register a case against him.

Sonia Gandhi was in Kerala campaigning for elections, where she had to campaign for Congress coalition (UDF coalition). At one such rally, Vayalar Ravi and Ramesh Chennithalla was also present. Sonia got all excited and said, “Please vote for LDF (CPM coalition),” the leaders on the dias smiled thinking it was a mere slip of tongue but when she said the same thing again, their faces changed colour.