1.1 : TWTW returns with name changed

TWTW is back - but with its name changed. As the new edition is being sent to a large set of people who never saw TWTW , I would take a short paragraph to tell them about it. So new guys on the blog, The Week That Was , was one of the most well written, most awaited , most captivating mailer on the news from India. Old guys know that most of the above is fabricated.
Lets stop living in the past, and concentrate on the past which just went by - How was the week that was ? So was the week ....

The most important news of the week was from Noida. I used to think that Noida just has multinational and Indian companies which take their employees' "khoon-pasina" (blood and sweat). I was wrong - there are also men who do it to fellow humans. Ever since the skeletons have been dug out of the D-5 , Sector 31, people have started digging up stories which start from organ trading to cannibalism. The Mohinder Singh-Satish duo has now confessed to killing 35 people. Some of them were sold as organs, some raped and some eaten up - but all of them killed and buried in their Noida house. Most of them were kids and women. Noida police dismissed the disappearance of children and women from Nithari village as a common trend. The apathy of Noida police is not just the only thing where the police can be laughed at. Suddenly, all cities where Mohinder had ever lived are buzzing with activity. Police in those cities is quickly solving all disappearance cases - attributing them to Chaudhary. But back in Noida, the case has been handed to CBI - rather reluctantly by the Chief Minister. With elections round the corner and Soniya and Mayawati pitching against him, poor old Mulayam is scared to do anything these days.

Speaking about women politicians creating trouble for male politicians - Mamta Banerjee has created a major chaos in the left front. Yes, this chaos is on top of the chaos which the left front is made of. Mamta's 25 day hunger strike not only helped her shed those extra kilos, she also managed to gain some mass(es) to follow her. Singur battleground between a fasting Mamta and a not so fast to act Buddhadeb has brought a new life to the state of West Bengal, which has been feeling "left" out for a few decades. While all this was happening, Tatas, for whom the farmers' land was being acquired could think of only one thing - "Ok Tata".

Speaking about conflicts - amongst thousands happening each day in this country, one that caught my attention was between Central Government and Supreme Court. Supreme Court had created a list of 9 people , whom they thought were experts in Environmental Studies and Sciences, Government had to chose from these people to constitute a three member Forest Advisory Committee which would oversee all forest-based projects in India. Central government found none of the 9 fit enough to be given such a responsibility. A war of words followed - with the Additional Solicitor General telling the court that is "encroaching" upon Executive's domain. The court, obviously, had not heard anything like this before and said a lot of stuff which sounded like grumble-mumble. In an another story, Delhi Police chief in his annual press conference patted his officers' back and said that his team performed well despite social turmoil and provocation by Supreme Court and High Court orders. I guess His Lordship's court-ship period is over.

Speaking of ending courtships - this one takes the cake. An RJD M.P.'s wife has written a letter to the Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee that her husband has been neglecting her ever since he became an M.P. Are you thinking what I had thought earlier ? An ideal member of parliament , who is so engrossed in his work that his wife feels neglected. A workaholic politician , and that too from Bihar, and that too from RJD ? Time to burst the bubble - his wife has alleged that he has started showing interest in other women after he became an MP and has been travelling with other women on MP wife's quota. The MP has denied everything, and the Speaker has nothing to say.

-Amit