Monday, October 11, 2010

Of Airborne and frank assessments

The one manning the ATM centre has dozed off when the unrelenting Sun won't do a disappearing act for a long time. My protest at his temerity to doze off when the goons could well blast their way to the money swindled machine (MSM)leads to a strong verbal protest from him. "This is sleeping time, " and with nothing more to protest i move on. That was a day after the goons who were incapacitated enough to even fiddle here and there following the flags they had to foist and the salaam they had to throw at the uncounted number of Must Visit Personalities of Nagercoil.

They threw a lot of protest here and there when the streets had not been cleared enough for them to move with their unaccounted cash. Some cash they deposited at the ATM and some they flung at the public that was desperate enough to halt their unaccounted cash movement.Today, the ATM centre had another man. Probably the security guard the pprevious day would have been lifted by the MVPs realising that he had got wind of their operations. The cash stashed in the ATMs in and around ran into millions and those who dared to fill the coffers had their vists that ran into three digits. He would have been airborne by the time the news trickled in that the man at the machine had vanished to a unnamed location. This location we would never get to know for a long time but we are sure of the location where the BIG GAMES are destined to happen.
A bridge that was supposed to provide the seamless connectivity to JLN centre has given in to the pressure tactics and procastination schedules of the powers-that-be. The firm having been blacklisted with their personnel facing prospects of being beaten black and blue, the Michael Fennel letter to the Government leaves much to be desired. He is seeking answers at a time when the written tests are well and over and the time is ripe enough to hold practicals. He is at fault. He should have been shooting letters precisely from Oct 3, 2009, when the Games were truly 365 days away.
Just 10 days left and he seeks written explanation on the bridges to be completed, the meals to be served, the centres from where coupons for free meals could be procured and other such nuggets. The exacting standards he and his colleagues are seeking is leaving the overworked and underpaid government departments (overtime has not been paid for the past six months)in excruciating pain. The sanitation standards that they want to be established is a debate that could well continue post Games. The open spaces to relieve is a revelation of sorts for them. Perhaps they want the shame to be swept aside by erecting tents at every 50 metres to the venue where any guy of any shape size and colour could relieve himself to have realised the decade-old dream of being in the vicinity of the Games though he could not make it to the venue as passes were few and the gaining a foothold inside he hardly knew.

As for Hooper and Fennel they need to cut down on hype and saddle with enough phenyl to bring a clarity in sanitation procedures. To cut the intensity of the looming loo crisis, they have started issuing passes to all and sundry whereby they could visit the loos earmarked for these CWG officials and provide an honest assessment of the entire loo and its surroundings. As for other frank assessments, the guys and babes from New Zealand, Canada and Australia have descended on the Capital with the will to try Hooper-cum-Fennel loos and bring out the hidden facts before the aam janata. As for those who first threatened to call off the Games and then disappered into these not counted loos, they probably don't realise the unaccounted amount that has been dispensed to procure the lathis (wooden sticks). These lathis could well dispatch the threat-wielding officials to a loo where none have dared to visit before. And it was precisely this threat that made Fennel to develop a fetish for the media with the brief that post Games India stood a solid (solid waste) chance of hosting another Games that no one had seen or heard before. Probably the WAR GAMES that India would be preoccupied with the man from Australia who thundered that in the first place the Games shouldn't have gone to India. It should have gone to Pakistan.

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