Audacity means Didi

Audacity - Can be defined as any of the below

1. The willingness to take bold risks
2. Rude or disrespectful behavior

Didi is how most know Mamata Banerjee a politician in India. Currently she is the Chief Minister of West Bengal a state in the Indian Republic. Over the last few days (2nd week of June 2012), she has become very famous for being the king-maker one day and ending a big loser in the next two days. 

It started with Mamata despite being a key ally of the ruling UPA Govt, deciding to go her separate way when it came to arriving at a consensus on the next UPA nominee for the next President of India. I was amazed when i read various news items, when she tangoed with another party (SP) and decided on announcing the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh too to be a candidate for the Presidential election. Something that has been never heard of. It sparked so much commotion and the media went into a frenzy, as they got so much fodder to talk & discuss about the audacity of Didi and also how the PM is being jettisoned. Oh boy !, it sure caught every man on this soil un-aware and totally lost for words and obviously put the Congress led UPA in a very slimy slate

Normally when you are sinking, people try to catch a tree branch or anything thats available to keep you afloat. Here Mamata was safely in the coalition and was always being kow-towed to, even when serious fiscal related policies were being stopped by her objections.... so obviously no one could imagine why didi would jump everyone's shoulder and go berserk and cobble up a quick coalition just for this Presidential election.

Didi did many things right and boldly to get the 3 decade old Communist rulers overthrown, in her home state election. She led a strong fight against land grabbing / land acquisition, due to which Tata car makers could not setup the Nano factor in Bengal....this is all known and was a very bold move

You can take bold steps, expecting a good result and you can very bold move while ending up in despair. The latter is what happened this time around with Didi, when the UPA announced Pranab Mukherjee to be the nominee for the Presidential election, to which most other parties in India have now concurred including the SP, which means Didi has been left alone on the island and not even a boat to come back to main-land

So was it Audacity, that was too bold but had huge over-tones of dis-respect ?

tint or no tint

It has been decided that vehicles in India cannot have their windows tinted anymore. Some have a concern on privacy and some on the heat that a clear glass will bring. More than the concerns that common man have, I am sure it’s a big blow to the industry that makes, supplies and above all those retail chaps who take big money to stick them. I paid around INR 2000.00 for the 4 windows to be stickered up and that was some years ago, when I really thought that this money was a huge one. incidentally, as many would’ve realized that it also takes money to remove them… INR 300 that’s what I was asked at a nearby shop for the removal

The Supreme Court has ruled on the removal, Bangalore Police set a deadline, which has been extended with warning to another week, somewhere we also hear that it has been stayed !… so what’s the status, not sure but a large number of vehicle owners have done away with the tint on their windows…

Well, Tint or No Tint – there is money involved … at the end of the day, its for the general safety at the cost of your privacy & some heat filled interiors