From The Print Media

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From The Print Media:


The Times of India-

has the story of a leaked dossier prepared by Gary Kirsten and Paddy Upton. The dossier exhorts our cricketers to have more sex for better on-field performance because, 'sex increase testosterone, which causes an increase in strength, aggression and competitiveness'. It is an entertaining piece with great insights.

It also addresses the question of what happens when you don't have a partner- 'If you want sex but do not have someone to share it with, one option is to go solo whilst imagining you have a partner, or a few partners, who are as beautiful as you wish to imagine'- you can't get more specific than that.

Prakash Kothari, India's 'most well-known' sexologist is quoted as giving this a thumbs-up, 'A good performance in an indoor sport can lead to a fantastic performance in an outdoor sport.'; but Dr. Ashok Ahuja of NIS has some misgivings- 'There is no doubt that sex increases your performance, provided it does not disturb sleep and has no negative influence on it'- Hmmm... how do you do it during sleep?

Not surprisingly, many cricketers are said to be enthused by all this - Graeme Swann sticks a knife into Andy Flower's back- 'I want Gary Kirsten to coach England...'

A suit in our courts drags on for fifteen years on average. Veerappa Moily plans a process that will take a case from trial to verdict in one year!

India successfully launched an Oceansat and six nano-satellites, in case you didn't see the TV.

There are depressing stats in a news item, 'Community group uses sports to make girls return to school':
*Unicef says 40% of Indian women ae married before they are 18
*A CRY study says 19% of girls are married before 13 in rural areas, and 53% of them are mothers before 19.
*24% of our girls never enrol in a school, and of those enrolled, 60% won't reach the secondary school level.

Remember late Roy J George, the HR VP who got hit in his head with iron rods in a labour dispute in Coimbatore? Seems he is a blogger. His wrote in his last post, "Purpose of Life", posted on September 6-
"In order to get enlightened about the real purpose of life we really need to get in touch with the inner self or should rise above worldly life".  Sorry about that.

Sashi Tharoor, our man on Twitter, seems hell-bent on being hundred percent twit. His latest tweet complains, 'Have a ridiculously full schedule tomorrow with 17 meetings/ engagements...' There is something called rescheduling, but may be he has more scheduled for the day after tomorrow. Or, perhaps, they should engage in DMs. That might perhaps make our minister happy.

Moamar Gadhafi, the Libyan strongman, in a speech at UN has called for the creation of an independent Jammu and Kashmir to act as a buffer between India and Pakistan. Should US go into Libya, Gadhafi will become a hero and we will have Gadhafi Nagars outside every city.

A high court in Mumbai has delivered a judgment that says calling your husband crazy is not cruelty. It refused the man to divorce his wife, who called him, bhondu, pagal, bewakuf, made fun of his educational qualifications, refused to take care of her husband, did not wait for him for having dinner with him, did not cooperate with him in physical relationships, and horror of all- went to office at 8 am and returned home only at 8.30 pm, refusing to do any household work at all. The court has refused divorce, and ordered the man to pay this iron maiden a maintenance pay of Rs. 3000 per month. Sorry, I forgot to mention this, they were married in 2003 and have lived together for 20 months in all, before going their separate ways and coming together to fight out this question of maintenance pay.

A 300 year old home of Kashi Viswanath at Varanasi is facing destruction- not at the hands of hordes of invading foreigners, but our desi painters- 20 layers of plastic paint is doing the good work. In case you think we don't care for our Gods, well, Gujarat Government has decided to make Lord Ram its tourism ambassador.



The New Indian Express:


Our Air Chief Marshall says that we have a mere one-third of fighter aircraft than what the dreaded Chinese have.

The Southern Railway has 78 station masters, certified medically unfit, courageously manning our Railway Stations. 45 of them are in Chennai.

The Sri Lankan Government has declared that resettlement of people who are now kept locked in camps, will happen only after the camp is 'swept clean of LTTE cadre and saboteurs'- which means, the goverment is never going to do it.

This should never have happened. A girl who murdered her husband and was given a life sentence, has served 15 years in prison- now she is set to be released because the offense was committed while she was a juvenile, and she is entitled to a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

Our nuclear deterrence is in shambles, and the sooner we do something about it, the better it will be. Someone is sure to get tempted to drop a bomb or two to see what happens. Anyway, since we have declared that we won't use it first, the question about whether we have it or not does not matter, but still. It is like having the Emperor's New Clothes- somewhat consternating, if that is the right word.

Okay, that's it.