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| Did you say Swaziland and not Switzerland? |
| 2010-05-17 |
| NEW DELHI, May 16: Any takers for a junket to Swaziland? Plenty it seems, especially if it's mistaken for Switzerland, as some legislators from Bihar did! When Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar prepared to go to Swaziland - a land-locked southern African country of a little over a million people - she asked her office to contact MLAs from Bihar to accompany her. Many MLAs literally vied with one another to go to Swaziland. But it looked like their enthusiasm did not last long. When they landed in Delhi, as the grapevine has it, they discovered they were going to Africa. “We all thought we were going to Switzerland,' said a despondent legislator, admitting that not many of them had heard about a country called Swaziland. Whiners and diners Disappointment was writ large on the faces of many of the 700-odd guests who had gathered at 3, Krishna Menon Marg, the official residence of the Chief Justice of India, where Justice KG Balakrishnan hosted his farewell dinner. The reason: no booze. Defying the Delhi culture of ‘wining and dining', Balakrishnan decided not to serve liquor. The guests, who included judges, lawyers, dignitaries and others from different walks of life, were evenly split into whiners and diners. The whiners craved for wine while the diners seemed to revel in the former's agony. IANS |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #1 This can't be! Only Americans are geographically ignorant - just ask any Lefty. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-17 18:11 |