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Wish fulfilled

Journalists, who came to report the proceedings of the general body meeting of the Municipal Corporation were mildly surprised to see Deputy Mayor Anne Prasanna, who was ready to step down from her post, presiding over the meeting. She stuck to the post for six more months beyond her one-year period, mainly because of a protracted debate about who was going to replace her. Ms. Prasanna’s well wishers were happy that she got a chance to preside over the meeting before her term came to an end ultimately. But many of the scribes wondered the reason for Mayor Mallika Begum’s absence. Enquiries, however, revealed that Ms. Begum stayed at home just to oblige Ms. Prasanna’s wish “to be in the lime light” before stepping down.

Mane matters

Do mathematics and mane go hand-in-hand? One would perhaps believe they do, after witnessing a mock conference of world mathematicians at Akshara International School at Ashok Nagar. As a part of its attempts to familiarise the students with various dimensions of educational set-up, the school organised a mock meet of world-renowned mathematicians, who contributed a great deal to the progress of the subject. Since all the participants, who stepped into the shoes of mathematicians like Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta, Mahaveeracharya, Ramanujam and Pythagoras were girls with long hair, they had to conceal their tresses by folding them or tucking them under the collars of their blazers. The hairstyle of the mathematicians, who spoke one after the other about their contribution to the subject, was too conspicuous to go unnoticed. It left one wondering if there was an arithmetic bond between maths and mane.

For ‘instant’ justice

Good exposure over electronic media for people climbing cellular phone towers or high-rise buildings to get their demands fulfilled has emerged as one of the easiest ways of black-mailing people for many. On such occasions it is the local police who sweat it out to get the person threatening to take his or her own life come to terms with them and give up the motive. Ironically on Monday it was Guntur police were at the receiving end. An autodriver N. Shyam Kumar ‘peeved at’ the alleged indifference of the police personnel to listen to him and absolve him of some cases allegedly foisted against him, climbed a cell tower and after an hour-long drama Circle Inspector K. Jagadeeswara Reddy succeeded in persuading him to climb down by promising him justice.

‘Son stroke’

Son of Guntur-1 M.L.A Namburi Subani is in the news yet again. This time he allegedly hit another youth with a cricket stump at a ground on a balmy Sunday afternoon. The ‘son’ obviously was enraged at his rivals for being adamant and refusing to clear the ground. It is not the first time, that this youth got embroiled in disputes. Earlier, he was allegedly involved in a row with his seniors at a private Engineering College, a serious one, which saw cases framed and the college closed for a couple of days. Going by the turn of events in the State for the last two years, it is nothing unusual for elected representatives and party presidents to be hit by a strange syndrome called ‘son stroke’. The netas seemed to be running out of ideas in coping with ‘son strokes.’

(G.V. Ramana Rao and

P. Sujatha Varma in Vijayawada and

Susarla Ramesh and

P. Samuel Jonathan

in Guntur)

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