And the Padma Shri goes to…

The recent list of the Padma Shri awards raised eyebrows in the political and entertainment circles and most importantly in the story-hungry media. While I wondered why (Nawab) Saif received it - whether it was for marrying a woman elder to him by 12 years, or to divorce the woman after 13 years of marriage, or was it for the alleged poaching of two bucks or was it for romancing an actress younger to him by 10 years – the statement in the media by Saif did confirm me that he surely did not deserve it. (Read the complete article here)

According to Saif, "If you look at the awardees over the last couple of years, all of them have not exactly invented a nuclear bomb."

And the closest Saif (probably) got to it was only to the word ‘bomb’shell, as seen below.

I also started thinking who the possible contenders for the next year’s award would be. Here’s the list.

1. On top is Rakhi Sawant for strengthening cross-border relationships and for social service like donating her clothing and looking after children.
2. Next is Shilpa Shetty for her nature of athithi devo bhava (sanskrit: guest is equal to God) and allowing her guests to do whatever they wanted with her, in front of the media. And for her attempt to revive the ancient Indian art of Yoga.
3. To the wife-friendly, Rahul Mahajan for showing compassion towards his fellow beings in the ‘house’ and to bring back the extinct Indian custom of swayamvar, actually reverse-swayamvar.
4. Ekta Kapoor for creating the image of the liberating Indian naari.
5. Chetan Bhagat. Period.
6. KCR for his modern (a)satyagraha
7. Kareena Kapoor (though size zero) won’t get it as ‘behind every successful man, there is a woman’ or is it?

Man…lot of people trying to restore the Indian culture, don’t you think they deserve it more than any restaurateur.