True colours of our netas

The colours of India and the multi-hued attire, sadly fast vanishing around us, occasionally make a sneaky come back to the Capital.

True colours of our netas

The colours of India and the multi-hued attire, sadly fast vanishing around us, occasionally make a sneaky come back to the Capital.
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The latest display was at Ashoka Hall during swearing in. Firmly establishing sartorial dominance were Shashi Tharoor, AK Anthony andu00a0 P Chidambaram.
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The DMK clan paraded its trademark crisp white mundus. The young Agatha dazzled in a jyensyem, a traditional Northeast attire.

Farooq Abdullah wore his family trademark achkan and cap, while Jyotiraditya Scindia and Jitin Prasad were in regulation white khadi kurta pyjamas.
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Clearly, the most colourful of the lot was Sachin Pilot's Rajasthani headgear, worn in the style of his father Rajesh.

Mamata's army of MoS followed her instructions and wore a uniform set of starched dhotis, Bengali style. Vir Bhadra Singh from Himachal completed the colours of the nation with his green cap of Bushair.
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Getting real

Companies in the IT, retail and real estate sectors which are now laying off "non-billable staffers" (lovely euphemism that) have run into a roadblock, with the new Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed growling that the government will not allow rampant sacking.

While that remains to be seen, for the first time since it was opened up to competition, the life insurance industry registered a 10 per cent fall in new premium incomes.

The layoff effect has spilt into the beleaguered aviation sector too. Jet Airways has sacked 110 employees and plans to sack another 400. Kingfisher has been sued by 600 pilots whose salaries were slashed.
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However, it's not only gloom. The recession has given small companies the opportunity to hire top talent from the bigger firms.

And CEOs of struggling big corporates are volunteering for salary cuts rather than facing the axe. And they all still talk of an upturn.

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