Served hot on a coffee table

After the recent game of one-upmanship between NCP leader Ajit Pawar and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan of Congress that created a major crisis in the Maharashtra government,there was an exhibition of normalcy in relations between the ruling coalition partners. Chavan and NCP leader and PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal shared the dais at the release of a coffee table book,interestingly named Wild Maharashtra,at Sahyadri guesthouse on Malabar Hill on Thursday.

The chief minister,in fact,went a step ahead and smiled at the photograph of a roaring tiger on display.