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Saturday, December 25, 2004
Wow, Manmohan wished me!
Top headline on the Hindu website today: "President, PM greet people on Christmas". How on earth is this remotely newsworthy? What will they come up with next?
Hmm, let's see. Today is Atal Behari Vajpayee's 80th birthday anniversary, so what about "Vajpayee cuts birthday cake"? Or, to shift to non-political celebrities, "Bollywood couple issue pre-emptive denial of soon-to-be-alleged relationship"? But I shouldn't complain, I guess, or I might be presented a newsworthy headline like "Avnish Bajaj arrested in Shankaracharya case". Better boring than downright depressing.
Now that I've got that off my chest, Merry Christmas. I turn 31 tomorrow, btw. It isn't easy.
Update – Rediff reports: "Vajpayee turns 80".
Update 2 (July 25, 2005): I'd mistakenly written "Adi Shankaracharya" in this post instead of "Shankaracharya". A reader pointed this out now, thus the late change. The mistake is regretted.
Hmm, let's see. Today is Atal Behari Vajpayee's 80th birthday anniversary, so what about "Vajpayee cuts birthday cake"? Or, to shift to non-political celebrities, "Bollywood couple issue pre-emptive denial of soon-to-be-alleged relationship"? But I shouldn't complain, I guess, or I might be presented a newsworthy headline like "Avnish Bajaj arrested in Shankaracharya case". Better boring than downright depressing.
Now that I've got that off my chest, Merry Christmas. I turn 31 tomorrow, btw. It isn't easy.
Update – Rediff reports: "Vajpayee turns 80".
Update 2 (July 25, 2005): I'd mistakenly written "Adi Shankaracharya" in this post instead of "Shankaracharya". A reader pointed this out now, thus the late change. The mistake is regretted.
