Padma Shrimati

Abhi is the real Padma Shri, I'm his shrimati: Ash

As usual, rest of the interview is also in the same vein, cute lil romantic musings. Saif-Kareena have started it and these two are hell bent on taking this to a new level altogether. Some how these sort of things work only if there is a large market out there for tabloids but in India this is not the case like say in US or UK. Or maybe this is a precursor of things to come in India, a new age of stupidity and idiocracy of tabloid stars might be starting and I'm bang in the middle of it without even realizing this fact or am I in a denial mode?

P.S: Seriously does Padma sri or Padma bushan or 101 other Padma awards even mean anything to the awardees, public or the government? If they don't, why waste precious tax payers money which could be put to better use. If they do, then give to people who really deserve them, lest they mock at the awards like this. But on second thoughts do people who really deserve these kind of awards require or ask for this kind of recognition? That again brings us back to the point that these awards are nothing but a huge wastage of time & resources of the government.

P.P.S:

Celebrated journalist P. Sainath of "Every body loves a good draught" fame has refused a Padma Sri.

In his own inimitable style he said “Journalism should not be judged by government and journalists should not accept awards from governments they are covering or writing about.” Sainath compared it to “The external auditor of a company taking an award from the company he is auditing or scrutinizing.”