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Brain wave
After the explosion at Piththala Junction, there was many an expert commentator at the Araliya Abode on how to curb terrorism. The brightest of the lot was Fee-licks, the one who transports. "The way out is to ban all these three wheelers coming into the city," he told Ma-hinder.
The latter could not but see the comedy in the brainy spark despite the situation. "My God, what a brain, where have you kept it all this time?" he asked the man with a smile. And the sidekicks roared. Ha! Ha!
Ban choon
Banning was in the air and when the cupboard meeting finished a scribe inquired from the fair lady, Fay-Real whether the Striped Tribe was to be banned. Replied she, tongue in cheek, "Yes, yes, we are in the mood to ban everything, from smoking to the Tigers to what not."
Hmm.
Power Crazy
Harry J is the feisty type and took pains to lock up the gates of Stassens to keep the man in the chair, Totsy, out. When others observed that all that was against the law and courts might find it so, the man's arrogance saw no end. "They will write down the dates for the cases in diaries I have presented," he said referring to the
robed types. Tch! Tch!
Tough Cookie
But one such who is not taking any stick is the Chief at the Court that is Supreme. When a very powerful public servant of the defensive kind peeved at the Chief's judgment allowing the suspended CBN to go back on air growled, the Chief gave his own opinion on the man. "That is a blundering bureaucrat," said the Chief. So there!
Good old times
Desperate times call for desperate measures, as is the case at the Ministry that is Defensive. The Secretary to the President himself has now prevailed upon a 75-year-old gentleman who twice walked out to return to the Ministry and give a helping hand. Now MD the Fernando is back for the third time in a plush office. Oh well, no doubt Prabha
will be all panic.
The Serfs
Servility is the norm, especially at the House by the Diyawanna. When the vote on the Ministry that is Defence was taken up, government speakers lauded Gota the Sec and said what a good job the man had done. In between the praise they kept looking at the officials box to double check and get an acknowledging nod from the man.
The joke was that the praise was more due to him being Ma-hinder's sibling than the job he was doing. So who cares, praise is praise, no!
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