Pegasus | Shashi Tharoor, Dubey spar over Parliamentary panel meet
The Hindu
While the Congress MP tweeted with Bernard Shaw's quote — ‘... never to wrestle with a pig, the BJP hits out says Tharoor is known for his "acute psychological disorder and disorientation”.
The parliamentary standing committee on information technology saw a battle of letters play out with its head Shashi Tharoor urging Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to take action over Ministry officials' and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey shooting off a missive to Mr. Birla calling for the Congress leader's removal as the panel's chairperson. Mr. Dubey in his letter, also alleged that Mr. Tharoor is known for his "eccentric nature" as well as "acute psychological disorder and disorientation", while the Congress leader later tweeted, without naming anyone, that he doesn't want to respond to "uncouth and obnoxious comments" and cited a quote from Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw — "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." In his letter to the speaker, Mr. Tharoor said the action of representatives of three ministries constitutes "breach of parliamentary privilege and contempt of the House". The committee was expected to discuss the in its last meeting which did not take place due to lack of quorum
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.
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