The importance of being Suhasini Worah

Bombay, July 20, 2001 (BridgeNews)- From the badlands of Bihar to the swollen coffers of BNP Paribas, life certainly has turned a full circle for Suhasini Worah.

Last week, when the lanky lady from Dhanbad put in her papers at BrideNews and announced a billion-dollar deal with France’s largest publicly traded bank — a moment frozen in time — it was a personal victory of sorts for the mercurial woman.

For, her critics at the Times Group had often scoffed at her chances of “wriggling out” of the ailing Bridge India Ltd. She proved them wrong.

So when Suhasini flies to London for a 6-month orientation program next month, it will be time to ponder for her former colleagues in the Timepass of India and Bridge.

Two decades back, she was thrown out of a local school at Dhandbad — her native place famous for its wealth of coal mines and notorious for the mafia that plunder it– for returning a blank answer sheet for the mathematics paper.

Despite being fed by the epic tale of Napolean Bonaparte’s marathon effort to solve a mathematical puzzle, Suhasini decided that enough is enough.

“No more of maths please,” she yelled at her parents. Little more is known about her educational background from that point of time.

But now, she is Dhanbad’s most illustrious daughter.

Suhasini then surfaced in this megapolis in the early eighties.

Times sources said she had Bollywood ambitions at that point of time. They did not elaborate.

Her Times stint was also stormy.

Suhasini, known to create a ruckus at the drop of a hat, once threw a flower vase into the wilderness of the Times editorial desk in a fit of rage for apparently no reason at all, forcing the Times management to initiate a probe into the affair.

The probe panel concluded that the flower pot wasnt supposed be there at that point of time, resulting in the TOI hiring half a dozen interior designers “to set things right” for Suhasini.

At 1135 local time Friday (0605 GMT), Suhasini was seen struggling with a copy of Reiko, her arch rival in the corporate reporting team of BridgeNews, Tokyo.

French stocks recovered in afternoon trading Thursday, helped by a firm opening on Wall Street. The CAC-40 index closed up 1.29% at 4930.39 as investors reacted favorably to news that BNP Paribas has struck a billion-dollar deal with Suhasini.

Update: *After Suhasinis entry, BNP Paribas closed shop in India. Worah, Suhasini is now trying to do a BNP Paribas with a bank that claims to be at home everywhere (Not World Bank).

*Dhanbad is now in Jharkhand, after the State’s formation in Nov 15, 2000. When Suhasini left Dhanbad it was in Bihar.

An ode to a failure

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Sins & Sensibilities of Govardhan

Though he didnt belong to any of the below-mentioned species, Malayankulam Chakravarthy Govardhana Rangan had spent most of his time with ascetics, monks, troglodytes, bar hoppers, stock brokers, all and sundry. Except women, excluding the dance bar types. Till now.

It is not that he is a misogynist. It so happened that he ended up being what ever he didnt wish to be, except in his profession. And wherever he didnt like to be. Like Bombay.

The first time he came to what was then Bombay, he fled in a week’s time. He vowed never to return to its splendid chaos. He returned to Madras with a foot in his mouth, only to be hurled back to the vortex of what had by then become Mumbai.

Only that this time, he liked it more than he hated it earlier.

He indulged in the chaotic splendour of the megapolis. He excelled in it.

So why is Govardhan being catapulted to the uneasy spotlight that has been thrust upon him now, time and again?

The answer lies in his dogged pursuit of simplicity. In dance bars. In MNCs. Even in selecting his desi frugal toothpaste. Heavens may have crumbled over dance bars, but the 42-year-old wasnt ready for any compromise. He was a rustic and liked to remain so. Forever.

In fact, when rogues of the now defunct BridgeNews mounted a no-holds-barred slanderous media blitz against him in 2000-01, the stock market bully maintained an indifferent silence. He escaped. Unscathed.

Even evidence-backed stories about his sleazy night forays failed to attract the credibility it deserved, just because the promotors of such stories happened to be shady characters. Shadier than thou!

Drenched in the hangover of overnight dance bar sessions, Govardhan would tell his peers that he has quit worldly pleasures, that he has been caught in the vortex of evil forces and that he has had enough. ++BASTAARDS, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, I QUIT, he would yell.++ Thou shall.

All said and done, this is an invite to grace the occasion of his scheduled marriage on March 25 in Kumbakonam, now synonymous with a raging inferno that swallowed more than 80 school kids in 2004. And scams of yore. And now, an erstwhile reckless wonder named Govardhan. Now, you know whats in a name.

He has, at last, quit worldly pleasures. For sure.

NB: All those who cant make out who the above mentioned anti-hero is, just think you are blessed.

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