Karnataka - Bangalore

Reporter's Diary

Wrong identity

SOME HUMOROUS incidents do take place even in the most serious situations as it happened during the terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) here on December 28.

After learning about the attack, reporters from almost all the newspapers and television channels gathered on the IISc. campus. Several top police officials too rushed to the scene.

As the deadline for the earlier editions was nearing, a reporter from a national English daily was giving the details of the incident to his colleague at the office on his mobile phone.

Meanwhile, a jovial journalist from another English daily, who came a little late to the spot, saluted the reporter of the national daily in the typical police style. Some lower-rung police personnel, who saw this, thought that the person was a senior police official and they too saluted him.

On seeing the policemen saluting their fellow scribe, the journalists burst into laughter.

Of course, the policemen, who realised what they had did, too could not hide their laughter.

Man's best friend

MANY PEOPLE who frequent the western stretch of Commercial Street would have seen this canine. A resident of the streets, rather old but formidably large and hirsute. Usually found napping on the gateway of some of the smaller shops, this venerable dog occasionally growls at a passerby but is usually placid and if fed a scrap, lazily wags its bushy tail.

Sunday night was quite cold and by the time the larger establishments closed their shutters, even colder. Around this time, this stray dog could be seen meeting a special need. Stretched out under shop's awning, the dog was cuddled with a stray of the human species.

A street urchin, perhaps a rag picker, found some much needed warmth from the dog; both were sharing a rather tattered rug and looked cozy enough.

Keeping in touch

OUR CITY fathers are working overtime these days. Trying to remain in the good books of the residents of their wards is nothing new.

But some corporators are doing their best not to miss an opportunity in attending functions and weddings in other wards too.

That is not all. The members are also visiting "influential leaders" of other political parties and greeting them on special occasions.

Now if you are wondering what is happening, here is the secret, which was revealed by one of these corporators recently.

"The term of the BMP Council is going to end this November. After the BMP elections are notified, the roster of reservation will also change. Who knows whether we will get a chance to contest again. Even if we get, we are not sure whether we can contest from the same ward. So we are just doing a little bit of homework."

"This `homework' will really help us as we can field our spouses if the reservation changes," the corporator said.

K Satyamurty,

Afshan Yasmeen

K.V. Subramanya, K Satyamurty, Afshan Yasmeen

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