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Andhra Pradesh
That charity should begin at home was a lesson the police officers of the city learnt when they attempted to educate school children about road safety. The traffic police recently went to some schools with colourful booklets and explained to younger lot the importance of wearing a helmet for the safety of two-wheeler riders. The campaign in schools was taken up to involve children in educating the elders about the need to wear a helmet. But the police personnel had to face a piquant situation when some of the children asked them why many police officers were often not seen wearing helmets. Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic) T. Prabhakara Babu revealed this at a meeting with the owners of petrol filling stations. Who is important?
Reporters politely scuttled an attempt by senior Congress leader and Minister for Municipal Administration Koneru Ranga Rao to gain sympathy after arriving late for a party meeting at Andhra Ratna Bhavan last week. Mr. Ranga Rao, who came more than an hour late, tried to draw the sympathy of party workers by pointing out that reporters did not wait for him because he was ‘unimportant’. “Print media reporters must have come and left. They did not wait because I am not so important. They will wait only for very important leaders,” he said. A couple of reporters sitting amongst the party workers did not disclose their identity when the Minister said this first time. But when he went on repeating the same dialogue, the reporters identified themselves and asked him to get on with his speech without wasting time any further. ‘Bemus’ed by the title
A speaker came onto the dais to introduce the title of the commerce fest ‘Bemus 07’ organised by the commerce department of the Andhra Loyola College (ALC). Everybody was ‘bemus’ed as to what the title meant. Many in the audience were not sure of the origin and meaning of the word. The organisers chose a Greek word so as to sound different, and, at the same time, recall the great contributions of Greek thinkers to the world. As it became clear that ‘Bemus’ meant a dais or a platform, the significance of the context was driven home to all. The commerce fest truly reflected a useful platform for students to compete and explore their overall abilities. ‘Silent’ winners
A physical disability need not be a curse, but can be turned into an opportunity to prove a point to the world. This was the message conveyed by the students of the Vijaya Mary School for the Blind and the Madonna School for the Deaf at a sport meet held in the city on Sunday. The partially blind players were as swift as other able-bodied rivals in the kho kho competitions. They did fumble a bit but the recovery was instant. While volleyball players of other institutions screamed and shouted to encourage each other, players of the Madonna School for the Deaf remained silent but conveyed the game plan to each other in their own sign language. But their substitutes sitting on the bench could not convey their suggestions for the game plan to their team mates on the court. But what seemed as a poetic justice in the end, the “silent” players won the volleyball title in the final, sending across a statement loud and clear – where there is a will, there is a way. ( G.V.R. Subba Rao, G.V.Ramana Rao, G. Ravikiran and
J R Shridharan)
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