VP Singh Passes away. Somebody asked why - a holiday?

HOLIDAYS FOR MOURNING?

Of course, a holiday should be declared whenever a former Prime Minister or President dies. In fact, a holiday should be declared when a politician dies cutting across party lines. Many of us miss the mournful sad tunes, which used to be aired on DD and radio whenever a leader died. This used to help us to grieve much better and keep solemn faces during the mourning. Oh, how we miss those bygone days!

Now, I do look forward for an unexpected holiday for my office so that those unfinished domestic odd jobs / like a repair job / repotting pots or lazing on the easy chair or even catching up with a movie in the multiplex can be done. The last time some one died I thought of the person so many times during the day - when I was in queue at the theatre I thought about the person - when I was shopping in the mall I did think of the great soul for if he hadn’t conked off I wouldn’t have been there. Even when I was having beer with friends in the afternoon I did think of the leader. Now, tell me how can you mourn when you go to office? You would be doing your routine mundane work without any thought or grief of the poor departed soul. I now keep a list of people holidays, who which might happen suddenly. You never know.

Editor dear, how can you even think of having a public debate on the subject? By this you might unwittingly elicit views so strong that the Govt may even get into a rethink mode on the idea. I dread the day!

Ajit Lakshmiratan

bangalore gridlocked on18th Nov 2008

silent sufferers phew!!! what a tolerant lot we are!! that we can tolerate nincompoops & sychopants rule the roost and take us for a ride (5 hours to cover 4 kms!!) in our own city we have stayed all our lives??? Farmers, who have never ever tilled the land landed in bangalore from the hometown of the guys who cry hoarse that they are "sons of the soil" - made merry whistling at women and girls alighting from school buses....do you feel like burying the so called sons of the soil in deep soil?? I do!! Where is judicial activism to put in place such happenings affecting the lives of peace loving law abiding Bangaloreans??? Shame on the leaders for insensitive utterances ..dont forget to throw them out in the next elections