When Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa wrote that not so sweet chinna chitti to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee little did the establishment reckon what they had unleashed that hot sweaty day in the central hall when the entire lot of parliamentarians crowded together to crowd out the countrymen and women and into corners when that ordinance was made into an ACT.
Little would they have reckoned with the lady down south who once most famously said she wanted to be a Fali Nariman if she wasn't what she was, and thank the mylords for small mercies for not denying her entry but she is even more famously fitting the case of Mark Twain who said, 'I never let my schooling interfere with my education', and she is most famously educating the honourables about doing the honourable and following their own legislation in toto. That is in word and deed.
When they must have thought they could cut their cake and still take that talk walk on the cakewalk while doing the patriotic act, they had another think coming up from down south!
Now either as Ma'am most benevolently points out they repeal their own horrendous act in toto.
Or act in toto.
Taking cognisance of the fact that the tongue too is a part of the body and not subject to special exemption clauses, unless....
Now most governments do the double whammy talk to these banned outfits clandestinely, track two diplomacy and so on, and then exhort their countrymen to be chary and wary of these sorts with whom nobody must consort not even poets like someone called Riviera in another southern state who is also languishing in jail for talking to or about or whatever it is all about with or to or around the PWG which the government itself did invite for talks once without lifting the ban and so on and they broke down before they could get to break a biscuit. ..
but this takes the biscuit...
so either repeal the act in toto
or act it out in toto even when it means you must let your own minister go...
compliments to Jayalalithaa!
Can you do anything about PATRIOTS ACT in America?
Fali Nariman hasn't she delivered a pingpong volley?
