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Some school managements in the city are keener on controlling the damage that would possibly arise out of publication of any report or photograph highlighting the inadequacies in their infrastructure than addressing the problem in the first place. Recently, our photographer was clicking pictures of auto-rickshaws carrying children in front of a reputable school for a story intended for a supplement. And, when he saw the foreground of the school turned into a lake due to heavy downpour and children struggling to wade through the water, he quickly went about doing his job. But the representatives of the school thought that it was an encroachment on their privacy. Numerous calls were made to our office to lecture us about taking prior permission and the like, with a subtle request not to publish the picture. But our simple question to the school management is: Why don’t you rectify the problem instead of doing some damage control? Desperate act?
In what is being viewed as politics of uplifting, leaders of All-India Brahmin Federation claim that they have realised the need to wipe out the age-old caste discrimination against the Dalit community. A few leaders, however, have conceded off the record that in the changing social and political scenario, it is their desperation that has prompted a decision to this effect. It is therefore, a role-reversal of sorts wherein the Dalits have agreed to condescend to the plea of the Brahmin community to forge an alliance to boost the sagging morale of the latter. Golden rule
So tight-lipped are officials at all rungs of administration at Dr. N.T.R. University of Health Sciences these days that information is very hard to come by. Naturally, it takes some time for the staff to adjust and open up after new Vice-Chancellor Krishnam Raju had taken over recently. Just as everybody was getting an idea of how to function, a surprising rumour got spread that Registrar P. Jayakar Babu was sent back to Siddhartha Medical College. As there was no official confirmation and Mr. Babu being unavailable, there were a lot of enquiries about the news. The V-C was away at Hyderabad when the news broke out. In the face of more enquiries from all and sundry, the staff preferred to be silent about almost everything. They did not even oblige giving phone numbers of authorities, as one of them said: “Why take chances? It is better to keep mum.” Ill-timed event
What is common between the VMC and the Krishna District Cricket Association? Ill-timing of the activities they take up, one may say. While the VMC often kick-starts its important civil works after the onset of monsoon much to the frustration of road users, the KDCA, too, always begins its cricketing season in June, when the rain god is usually at his furious best. All the enthusiasm of the budding cricketers to showcase their talent in the Power League went for a toss, as the tournament was cancelled due to heavy rain. K. Srimali, P. Sujatha Varma, G. Ravikiran and J.S. Shridharan
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