BT queen Kiran Majumdar and other members of the new Bangalore royalty had invited Nandan Nilekani and Ananth Kumar for tea and biscuits on Saturday. They took care of the chai pe kharcha. The idea was to discuss Bangalore South. Workers from the Congress and the BJP also trooped in for the 'interactive' session. Soon the two groups were at each other's throats, making the point that this was serious parliamentary politics, and not some mosaru kodbale Rotary Club get-together. How Marie became maaro, and how interactive became hyperactive is something the hosts are now trying to understand. (Management consultants from the US are wondering if they should pitch for an analytics project).
So what happened? Ananth Kumar, sitting MP, actually stood up and started saying sharp things about Manmohan Singh. This naturally angered the Congress workers, who gave the BJP workers a taste of their lung power. Soon it was tu tu mein mein, and that turned into thoo thoo mai mai. In other words, a spat and a roughing up. The JD(S) is fielding women's activist Ruth Manorama for the same seat Nilekani and Ananth Kumar are coveting. Good she was around. Without her, the event could have become Ruthless, no?
B.Pac, the official hosts, told everyone to go home after 45 minutes, and started talking about changing the format of such tea-and-biscuits events. Perhaps they'll encourage the candidates to do a round of kusti while their supporters cheer them on? May the best Sandow win.
(Satire column Full Drama with Ayyo Rama appears every day on Page 5 of The New Indian Express, Bangalore)
So what happened? Ananth Kumar, sitting MP, actually stood up and started saying sharp things about Manmohan Singh. This naturally angered the Congress workers, who gave the BJP workers a taste of their lung power. Soon it was tu tu mein mein, and that turned into thoo thoo mai mai. In other words, a spat and a roughing up. The JD(S) is fielding women's activist Ruth Manorama for the same seat Nilekani and Ananth Kumar are coveting. Good she was around. Without her, the event could have become Ruthless, no?
B.Pac, the official hosts, told everyone to go home after 45 minutes, and started talking about changing the format of such tea-and-biscuits events. Perhaps they'll encourage the candidates to do a round of kusti while their supporters cheer them on? May the best Sandow win.
(Satire column Full Drama with Ayyo Rama appears every day on Page 5 of The New Indian Express, Bangalore)
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