Turning Back Crime

His matching leatherjacket sneakered dash to the airport with his son ought to have alerted us to the fact that something important was up and when we chanced upon pictures of SRK in London with the newly rehabilitated and jubilant Lalit Modi we ought to have guessed what was going to come after all it was only a few weeks ago that we had written of Modirsquos blandishment of Interpolrsquos trendy lsquoTurn Back Crimersquo wristbandFound on the wrists of various show biz celebs and high rollers itrsquos no surprise that Modirsquos famous IPL colleague has been named Brand Ambassador of Interpolrsquos worldwide campaign against organised crime lsquoLatest fashion accessory turnbackcrime braceletgot mine iamsrk has hisShahrukh Khan with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K NobleHave u got yours ask INTERPOL_HQ 4 onersquo posted the cricket tycoon on a social networking siteSRK will be joining Jackie Chan and Lionel Messi in the worldwide movement against mobstersTake that Ravi PujariHell hath no furyOh dear what a very awkward situation the high profile and renowned wife of a self made tech tycoon found herself in recentlyHere she was a celebrated and cerebral sportsperson participating in a tournament established and sponsored by her husbandrsquos company and in which she was regarded as one of the countryrsquos top players and there to her great consternation she found herself at the wrong end of the stick when a belligerent opponent a Bengali at that did the unthinkable he questioned her integrity by alluding to what he thought was an unethical move on her partIn short gentle reader he dared to accuse her of cheatingNow hell hath no fury as a woman scorned and apparently so incensed was the lady by what she thought was an unfair and unfounded slur on her character that her temper boiled over and resulted in a thorough dressing down of the boorldquoIt is known that she has a temperrdquo said an observer ldquoBut no one would ever say she is a cheatrdquoEnter Gen NextAt the high profile launch of the 2014 Hero Indian Super League team lsquoFC Goarsquo on Tuesday by Goa CM Manohar Parrikar it was good to see the young Salgaocar scion Vikram Salgaocar on stageAt the launch of lsquoFC Goarsquo teamThe handsome lad who is a graduate of Wharton and who spent time working in Singapore after college is also a big Real Madrid fan like his father and a talented football player himself and was seen lending his heft to the team jointly owned by his father Dattaraj Salgaocar of V M Salgaocar and company Videoconrsquos Anirudh Dhoot and Dempo Grouprsquos Shrinivas DempoVikram happens to be the late Dhirubhai Ambanirsquos oldest and first grand child and his public debut once more underlines the generational shift thatrsquos taking place across the board in the circles that matterHusain in St MoritzldquoItrsquos a very handsome book the first on Husain since he diedrdquo says noted art critic and universally respected Kishore Singh the Delhibased writer on the launch of his new tome in the salubrious climes of St Moritz which took place last weekAnita Choudhrie Kishore Singh and Sharmila TagoreldquoIt was commissioned by the Stellar International Art Foundation which has a huge collection of the artistrsquos work including the Maria series lsquoThe Mughal e Azamrsquo and lsquoOur Planet Called Earthrsquordquo he saysldquoIt was launched at Art Masters in St Moritz at Nira Alpina by Sharmila Tagore in the presence of an interesting audience that was here for the India Week component of Art Mastersrdquo said Singh adding ldquoStellar is promoted by London based Anita and Sudhir ChoudhrierdquoMyths and rumoursPerhaps the finest and most thoughtful take on the Rajnath and son comeuppance rumour has been that of our colleague the Delhibased scribe Virender KapoorSubramanian Swamy and Narendra ModiIn a thoughtful article for the website Niti Central lsquoBold and Rightrsquo without going into the veracity of the rumour Kapoor writes lsquoA leaderrsquos public persona is built around a number of myths ascribing to him the very qualities which ordinary people want all great leaders to possess in abundancehelliprsquolsquoIt is not important whether there is any or some truth in those stories The important thing is that a vast majority of people readily accepts those apocryphal tales as the gospel truthhelliprsquolsquoModirsquos omniscience omnipotence as revealed by the apocryphal tales is a virtue in the eyes of the masses never mind what the professional liberalsecularist class might say about his being a control freak an authoritarian even a tinpot dictatorrsquo he writesInterestingly Kapoor is the brotherinlaw of senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy they are both married to Parsi blue stockings and is also said to be close to Arun JaitleyNot that any of that should take away or undermine his own independent and perceptive viewsHappy Birthday MickeyHis youthful energy and zestful joie de vivre might belie the fact but today our dear friend Wellness guru and fitness coach to the stars Mickey Mehta turns 52Mickey MehtaldquoOn Friday August 29 I will be 52 and it happens to be Ganesh sthapna too My message to the world is lsquoLet Wellness be your Religion No 1rsquordquoHappy birthday Mickey and many zestful more to comeItrsquos not a bird or a plane itrsquos a bookHe might be beleaguered and fighting with his back against the wall but word comes in that Vijay Mallya will soon be the subject of a handsome biography published by Penguin Random House one of the worldrsquos most respected publishersVijay MallyaSaid to be written by a foreign writer based out of London the book is said to be out later in the yearWill it be a hagiography And how will it deal with his alleged business transgressions the latest being attracting the nomenclature of being a wilful defaulterWatch this space