Hold the thought, Get the point

Okay, so the other day, while I was discussing current affairs, a colleague of mine lamented how Ms Chopra Playboy edition didn't really work its magic (with her legion of fans and porn addicts) and Poonam has been out of work (!) and kept herself out of the headlines for a while. None of this really made any sense. It didn't look right. How could India survive without the drama? As if answering our faint requests for drama, our original 'plastic-surgery-gone-bad' actress Ms Rakhi Sawant dashed off a letter to the Commissioner of Police against Mr Digvijaya Singh for certain remarks he made associating her with Arvind Kejriwal. For your Eyes Only: Here's the full text of the letter written by Rakhi Sawant, which has been reproduced in its entirety with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors: Mrs. Rakhi Anant Sawant, 4001, Imperial Height, B Tower, Best Colony, behind Oshiwara Depot, Goregaon, west, Mumbai-104, Dated -12/11/12 To, 1). Commissioner of Police, 2)...

And what he got. For those who know the Lord's Prayer by rote, there is one line in it - ' Bring us not into temptation but deliver us from evil ...', today's news was a reminder of how the strongest among us can crumble to temptation. David Petraeus , CIA Director and four-starred general who oversaw operations at Afghanistan, tendered his resignation citing ' poor judgement in having an extramarital affair ' with his biographer. The buxom lady in question, Paula Broadwell , has herself been under FBI investigation for sending anonymous threats via emails and accessing top-secret and confidential files belonging to Petraeus. Incidentally, this was not even the intended result of the investigation, but seeing the turn of events I am thinking if the director of the best spook organizations failed to keep his fling secret, then that only proves that it simply can't be done. Many might argue that he took the high road by owning up to the 'mistake' ...