Raining benefits

The cloudy weather and light spells of rain may have thrown life out of gear for Bangaloreans. It may have hampered weekend outing plans for some.

The resultant power disruptions could have upset others who planned to stay indoors and watch television.

But it definitely pleased the organisers of ‘Rang Barse’, a two-day event filled with fun and frolic for Bangaloreans to celebrate holi together on the Palace Grounds.

The organisers, who had ‘rain dance’ as part of the programme, were actually happy with the weather.

“In fact, the rain has come as a blessing in disguise for us. We had more than 3,000 participants on the second day,” a spokeperson for the organisers said.

For children playing with colours in the bylanes of their areas, it was a natural ‘rain dance’ anyway. They played holi and also washed it off in the rain.

Now, does this mean not much water has been wasted this holi? This is for the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to answer.

Afshan Yasmeen

Cry baby!

Recently TV serial director T N Seetharam made public another, rather less-known-facet, of well-known singer C Ashwath.

Seetharam said Ashwath takes media reports particularly those criticising him seriously.

Whenever he is disappointed with any comment in media he calls up his close friends including Seetharam, in the night and sheds tears.

According to Seetharam, Ashwath goes on crying throughout the night and he is inconsolable. It was an embarrassing situation for Ashwath.

Seetharam ended his remark saying “Ashwath you are an asset to the state. Never get carried by comments made on you”.

Sathish Shile

Madman and PM!

Mental health care doesn’t always mean that the discussion should be about madness, but a talk on mental health often touches upon the concept of madness.

At the launch of the ‘Mental Health Care in Prisons’ a programme inaugurated by the Governor Rameshwar Thakur, Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Cyriac Joseph had a joke to share, which instantly triggered peals of laughter.

He said he had heard that once Jawaharlal Nehru had gone to a mental hospital where the late prime minister had an encounter with a madman.

The madman sought Pandit Nehru’s introduction, to which Nehru said he was the Prime Minister of India. Quickly the madman asked Nehru not to lie to him because he himself had once believed that he was the Prime Minister of India, a conviction that promptly landed him in the mental hospital.

G Manjusainath