The festival season has begun, and it is a time to give, to all those whom we love—and even to those we don’t.
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN has chosen to send out gifts to some of our VIPs. And he is giving away cassettes which they may never listen to, or books they may read, even gift coupons they may not accept.
***
To H.D. Kumaraswamy… Neenarigadeyo elamanava
To B.S. Yediyurappa… Ninna nambi kettavaruntu
To H.D. Deve Gowda… A lesson. Period. (But will he learn?)
To H.D. Revanna… A slogan, “Appa, mera number kabh aayega?”
To Siddaramaiah… A talking doll which screams, ‘Mein kaun hoon, mein kaha hoon?“
To Governor Rameshwar Thakur… A title, Uncrowned King of Karnataka
To Benazir Bhutto… An email, “Is there life after near-death?”
To Pervez Musharraf… A ‘birthday suit’, which he doesn’t want
To Manmohan Singh… A baton, to hand over
To Rahul Gandhi… A baton, to receive
To Sonia Gandhi… A whistle, to start the exchange of batons
To Prakash Karat… The title, Chairman Karat
To Brinda Karat… A bindi in the size of the new two-rupee coin
To Thiru Karunanidhi… ‘A burning sethu’
To Andrew Symonds… A lesson, that racism is a two-way street
To Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly… A copy each of The last days of PompeiiTo Rahul Dravid… Audio book of ‘Paradise lost’
To Mahendra Singh Dhoni… A rendition of ‘Paradise ‘gained’ (apologies to Milton)
To Ricky Ponting… A lesson, that 20/20 is bigger than 50/50
To the Stock Market… A yo-yo toy
***
Join in the give-and-take revelry. Who would you like to send a gift to?
22 October 2007 at 2:25 pm
Dharmasingh…………Nyaaya yellide
Mallikarjuna Kharge..Aaseye dukhakke moola kaaraNa
22 October 2007 at 10:34 pm
S M krishna ………. sanyasi sanyasi, arjuna sanyasi
Devegowda……. muddeyantha raajanige makkaLu mooru, aa moovaralli yaavudoo neTTagilla!!
22 October 2007 at 11:04 pm
karunanidhi….. naanu obba, nanage naalvaru, namage nooraaru!
23 October 2007 at 6:40 pm
HD Kumaraswamy- A greeting card- God loves you, but everybody else thinks you are jerk.
Karunanidhi- A Ramrod to plug his blackside
23 October 2007 at 9:50 pm
My gift to Kumar Swamy, Manmohan Singh, Karunanidhi and all their clones would be copies of ‘Atlas Shrugged’. These people have NO shame in forming coalition with parties that share different ideology to be in power.
23 October 2007 at 10:07 pm
A 20/20 world cup, full of Australian wheat- unfit for human consumption – to – Sharad Pawar
24 October 2007 at 6:32 am
DG -
ಮಾನವನಾಗುವೆಯಾ ಇಲ್ಲಾ ದಾನವನಾಗುವೆಯಾ? ಮಾನವಕುಲಕೆ ಮುಳ್ಳಾಗುವೆಯಾ? ಹೇಳೂ ನೀ ಹೇಳೂ
(ದೇವೇ)ಗೌಡನ ಕಾಟಾ ಬಲ್ಲವರಾರೂ? ಆತನ ಎದಿರು ನಿಲ್ಲುವರಾರೂ, ಕೇಳದೆ ಕೈಯ್ಯನು ಹಿಡಿವಾ, ಹೇಳದೆ ಕೈಯ್ಯನು ಬಿಡುವಾ ತನ್ನ ಮನದಂತೆ ನಡೆದಾಡುವಾ… ದೇವೇಗೌಡನ ಆಟಾ…. ಬಲ್ಲವರಾರೂ?
ಯಾರೇ ಕೂಗಾಡಲಿ ಊರೇ ಹೋರಾಡಲಿ, ನನ್ನ ನೆಮ್ಮದಿಗೆ ಭಂಗವಿಲ್ಲ, ನನ್ನ ನಿದ್ದೆಯೇನೂ ಕಡಿಮೆಯಿಲ್ಲ…
ನಾನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ಕಳ್ಳನು ನಾನೊಬ್ಬ ಸುಳ್ಳನು ಬಲು ಮೋಸಗಾರನು ಇನ್ನೇನು?!!
25 October 2007 at 5:26 am
My gift to G.Dowda would be a box full of ‘human waste’! (Sorry – he has really pissed me off with his shameless politics) lol
25 October 2007 at 7:12 am
Another version of “Neenarigaadeyo ele manava?” is “neenarigadeyo hulumanava?” There are few people that HDK has not conned in Karnataka’s coprophilic politics. He could also make use of Purandaradasa’s “Sullu nammalillavayya. \ Sulle namma devaru.”
Devegowda should be given a primer about reading as well music. He is reported to have said that he does not read or listen to music because he is too busy thinking of ways to serve the people. He means he cannot wait till he has destroyed all but Haradanahalli or Paduvalahippe and be the Gowda of that village. Seriously, we are in our ayomaya state precisely because we underestimated Gowda’s grasp of things and he has turned into a Bhasmasura. Take heart. His hand is getting very close to his bald pate.
H. D. Revanna is convinced beyond doubt that people fear him; his brother is convined beyond doubt that he is loved by the entire five and half crores of Karnatakans for whose sake he broke the promise made to the bakapakshi Yediyurappa. Kumaraswamy said he did not know what “Jathyatheetha” meant. His PWD brother says he doesn’t know what “vachanabhrashtha” means. On top of all of this, when Devegowda heard of Prakash’s trip to Delhi said to his balding, fat son, “Now you know who your enemies are.” Substitute “my” for “your.”
The Thakur carpetbagger, the uncrowned king, is perhaps not all that bad, yet. Remember Dharmavira who acted as if he were an emperor?
Siddharamayya demanded Ramakrishna Hegde’s head for saying the politician from Chamundeshwari was good for grazing sheep and his guru from Haradanahalli for watching cattle. Gowda now has all the sheep and the cattle of JD (S). Jai Devegowda Samsaara!
Yediyurappa needs to take Bus No. 4. In my younger days, it took people to what we then called the Mental Hospital. Even the worst hidebound Veerashaivas cannot want this demented caricature of a man forChief Minister.
I will not offer any advice to or about the other out-of-state celebrities listed in the blog because our own house is collapsing all around us. What shall we do?