It's the dawn of the age of singles: Atalji is PM, Abdul Kalam will soon be President and UP has Kumari Mayawati ruling the roost.
July 01, 2002 00:00 ISTFirst Take
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It’s rough times for Time magazine; it’s receiving a great deal of
flak for the controversial piece on the PM. But an equally damaging article on the likes
and dislikes of Atalji in The Daily Telegraph, London, seems to
have gone scot-free...Heard this one in a dtc bus. It’s the dawn of the age of
singles: Atalji is PM, Abdul Kalam will soon be President and UP has
Kumari Mayawati ruling the roost...Talking of Kalam, PMO pointsman Vijay
Goel’s Chennai visit was not just about delivering the PM’s message to
Kalam. He soon dashed off to Kanchipuram to meet the Shankaracharya.
Incidentally, Kalam is a regular at the Kanchi math and after his nomination, the
Shankaracharya described him as friend and soulmate...After the Rajya Sabha, liquor baron Vijay
Mallya now ventures into publishing with a new lifestyle magazine...Meanwhile,
Bollywood is getting inundated with a new set of...
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