Recently, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee lost his cool, as he is wont to do, and shouted at Union Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, when the latter raised his party’s objections to the India-Bangladesh accord on Teesta river waters. But Trivedi flummoxed the senior minister with his response: “Pranabda, even my father has never shouted at me like that!”
Banking on food
HR managers in a private bank obviously believe the way to bankers’ hearts is through their stomachs. After moving to a new office in the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai from its palatial world town office, a private bank faced a lot of grumpy faces from colleagues who complained of leaky ceilings, bad fittings and other initial pangs of relocation. But now, it seems they’ll have something appetising to look forward to. The office canteen is tying up with a popular takeaway service for Bengali cuisine to serve authentic Calcutta Biryani and rolls. Obviously, it pays to grumble sometimes.
