In
Indian politics, 365 days is a long time. Much can happen in that span
and much did in 2004. There was never a dull moment. Be it Shining
India being trampled under in a sari stampede or the Best Bakery being
the worst of brutalities. Atal Bihari Vajpayee may have ambivalent
feelings about being out of the chair of spikes that coalition
helmsmanship has come to mean, but Manmohan Singh was no willing
Burkis. If the discordant notes in India-Pakistan ties are an enduring
legacy, the concord between states within the Union is writ in water.
Cricket is both war and diplomacy by other means. If Veerappan's
inglorious end made some politicians hold their head high, the
Shankaracharya's arrest showed how upside down our perceptions could
be.
With a few deft strokes,
Rajinder Puri has captured it all in his daily cartoons in The
Tribune. Here are some prize pickings from his prolific folio on men,
matters and their (mis)deeds.
In
Indian politics, 365 days is a long time. Much can happen in that span
and much did in 2004. There was never a dull moment. Be it Shining
India being trampled under in a sari stampede or the Best Bakery being
the worst of brutalities. Atal Bihari Vajpayee may have ambivalent
feelings about being out of the chair of spikes that coalition
helmsmanship has come to mean, but Manmohan Singh was no willing
Burkis. If the discordant notes in India-Pakistan ties are an enduring
legacy, the concord between states within the Union is writ in water.
Cricket is both war and diplomacy by other means. If Veerappan's
inglorious end made some politicians hold their head high, the
Shankaracharya's arrest showed how upside down our perceptions could
be.
