Newspaper watch -- The Hindu's 'human interest' page

The last page of the Hindu is 'human interest' stuff, generally wierd and offbeat stuff. Mostly they're not so interesting. Here are a couple of recent interesting ones:

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told some younger women at a TV awards dinner, "If I wern't already married, I would marry you right away". His wife Veronica Berlusconi was not amused but he refused to apologize to her. She responded by publishing a letter in a newspaper demanding an apology: "These are affirmations that I see as damaging to my dignity, affirmations that .. cannot be reduced to jokes. To my husband and to the public man I therefore ask for a public apology, having not received one in private". She got it: " Here I am, saying that I'm sorry. I was recalcitrant in prvate, because I am playful but proud too. Challenged in public, the temptation to giv in to you is strong. I can't resist", said the tycoon.

Its interesting for me to see the human side of this political leader who is quite terrible in his policies(IMO). There was a similiar story about George Bush who writes bad poetry to his wife:


"Roses are red
Violets are blue
Oh my, lump in the bed
How I've missed you.


Roses are redder
Bluer am I
Seeing you kissed by that charming French guy"



For the full story (and poem), check out this page. You'll need to search for "Bush" on the page to find it. Also if you're tastes run that way, there seems to be poetry by Rumsfeld there.

We're getting off-topic here, it was supposed to be about the Hindu. The other article I wanted to note is that Rowling has apparently finished "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", the last in the series. There was some stuff which I forget about readying child counsellers since a couple of prominent characters are bumped off in the book. More info here . And here's her nicely done official site