Tainted Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju was admitted to NIMS on Monday evening after he complained of chest pain - Isn't it strange that Ramalinga Raju who was hale and hearty playing badminton in the Jail till the other day should develop 'sudden chest pain' within a week of his mentor and the deceased Chief Minister YSR Reddy dying in a helicopter crash? Now, he will enjoy the luxury of a 5-star hospital (NIMS) for months. These things can happen only in India.
A flight scheduled to take off to Riyadh at 2 am, gets delayed and passengers are boarded at 4.30 am only to be disembarked due to a technical snag. Another wait of 6 hours and the replacement flight taxies at 10.30 am, only to stop in the runaway and passengers evacuated as the engine is on fire. The terrified passengers are brought back to the terminal and packed in a third aircraft at 4.30 pm, full 14 1/2 hours after the original flight should have taken off. It is a miracle that by then any of the passengers were brave enough to get into the aircraft. This is the airline that wants Rs 15,000 crores of tax payers money to bail it out. Why dont we just bury this Maharaja?
