But the wackiest team name that evoked laughter from audiences during the event was that of Jubilee Hills Public School, who christened themselves as ‘Intel Inside, Mental Outside’!

Indian students’ obsession with the US is well known. Perhaps it is their teachers who instil this desire in them. At the launch of a “student-friendly” educational portal at JNTU, Prof. Balarama Reddy of School of Management, Sri Venkateswara University, while talking about the need for individuals to set objectives said, “Students must come out of their college thinking I want to be a software engineer in USA and not in India.” Who then will work in our IT and ITeS companies?

The GHMC appears to have been caught off-guard following Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s announcement of civic polls soon. Lips of the officials concerned have remained sealed ever since even while the State Election Commission is reported to have sought details from GHMC whether it intended to hold civic polls anytime now.

If summary revision and BC voters enumeration are crucial and tough tasks have to be completed if the elections are to be held, election officials also seem to have discovered that their delimitation of 150 wards following the natural boundaries could be faulty.

Grapevine insists that it would be back to the drawing board to do the delimitation exercise because as per rules it has to be done based on the population of the SC/STs and natural boundaries might not pass muster.

People just need occasions to recall memories and hardships involved in a love story and that too in an inter-caste marriage, to share with others. And perhaps nothing can be handy than press meets.

At a press meet conducted by a well-known memorial trust to announce the performance of its students and new academic courses, the trust director made best use of the occasion. Setting aside the press meet’s agenda, he recalled the romantic days with his wife and the hardships they faced in convincing their parents and relatives. He even went onto say that his father had ordered him to spend five days in a week with his wife and the remaining two days with the woman they had selected for performing marriage with him. Moral of the story is that not all love stories are rosy and not all press meets can be confined to dissemination of news.

Ajab ye karte hain tasveer mein kamal

Ustadon ke ustad hain Raja Deen Dayal

That’s how the sixth Nizam, Mir Mahboob Ali Pasha, went poetic in praise of Deen Dayal, the prince among photographers. This couplet along with rare pictures shot by Deen Dayal were on display at the restored CIB building in Basheerbagh. Chief Justice Anil R. Dave, who was present when the building was rededicated last week, was very much pleased by the couplet. The picture of Deen Dayal with his staff and Albert Abid, valet to the sixth Nizam, after whom Abids is named was a major attraction.

Shrewd ones make most of the adverse conditions too, and it was evident in the way a rice miller created hype around the Rs. 20-a-kilo rice. The miller, who also runs a retail store, organised an extravagant event and invited Finance Minister Rosaiah to inaugurate the Sona Masuri rice bags to be given at Rs.20 per kilogram. Orchestra played cloying praise of the government schemes before the event had begun. The compeer had taken enough care to mention time and again that the miller was doing great service by reducing the price.

Now, it was a known fact that the government wanted all the retailers to offer rice at Rs. 20 per kilogram. The miller in question was merely doing what was expected of him. There was no need to publicise it as charity and least desired was the presence of the Minister to endorse the same.

ABHIJIT DEV KUMAR, YOGENDRA KALAVALAPALLI, V. GEETANATH, S. SANDEEP KUMAR, J.S. IFTHEKHAR

& SWATHI. V

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