Daily I have to engage an auto to commute to work. Spend nearly 40 minutes for one trip of which 20 minutes are spent in finishing my prayers for the day. In the remaining 20 minutes I catch up with the life and times of the auto driver of the day.
Yesterday's had a picture of Kalaingar M.Karunanidhi, ex-CM of Tamil Nadu, stuck prominently on his auto's wind shield.
I informed him that in the day's newspaper, the topic of how every auto driver in town is busy sticking pictures of the present CM J.Jayalalithaa and her political mentor, MGR in place of DMK chief and ex-CM now that he is out of the hot seat.
He said the reason for him retaining that picture was due to his really liking Kalaingar. I asked him the reasons for liking him - whether for his policies or film scripting or film dialogues or poetry. He said the ex-CM had done a lot for the common man and improved the state to a new high during his tenure. He cited the samacheer kalvi, solving the water crisis for Chennai, providing benefits to the poor, low cost rice and grocery items through the public distribution system, the 108 free transport service on call for accident victims as well as for emergency cases. He mentioned that president Obama acknowledged that this was a great free service which is not available free of cost, even in the United States. Besides he felt that the Kalaingar should not have allowed A.Raja to get arrested for a mere 200 crores when other parties at the centre have done off with a 5 digit in crores!
I laughed and pointed out that the law has done what it should do, whether the person is high or low in rank.
20 minutes went past like one minute. As I alighted, the auto driver wanted to keep on talking about his favorite leader, not allowing me to go into the office so quickly. I had to excuse myself as it was getting late for office.
Mahalakshmi
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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