Delhi Confidential: India Roots

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was greeted with “Jai Siyaram” by Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs Ashwini Kumar Choubey upon his arrival for the G20 summit on Friday. Choubey also went on to inform Sunak that he is an MP from Buxar, where Lord Ram and his brother Lakshman believed to have studied under the tutelage of Vishwamitra, the minister’s office said in a statement. The British PM, who is of Indian origin, often emphasises his Hindu roots, which he is proud of.

Big Fish

Talking to students in Nagpur on Wednesday, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat narrated an interesting anecdote. Bhagwat, who has Z-plus security cover, said when he got down at Pune railway station the other day early in the morning, police ended up inconveniencing a lot of passengers sleeping on the platform. He said when he was passing by a couple whose sleep had been disrupted, he heard the woman asking her husband who he (Bhagwat) was. According to Bhagwat, the husband replied, “Lagta hai koi badi machchli hai (appears to be a big fish)”. Bhagwat said, “That day I realised who I was”.

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Fate, Wait

The Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) was scheduled to meet on Friday to decide on institute director Uttam Kumar Sarkar’s resignation. Sarkar had quit on August 23 apparently over differences with the Board chairperson Srikrishna Kulkarni. However, Sarkar will have to wait a little longer to hear the final word on the fate of his resignation since the Board meeting was cancelled last minute on Thursday night. Apparently, Board members were neither given a reason for cancellation nor a fresh date for the meeting.