Subhash Ghai too, chose to be magnanimous. When contacted, the filmmaker said, “Every citizen has a right to say anything about any person. In this country, one can say anything from worshipping a person, admiring a person to even firing a person. It is your own mind that speaks. God bless Suhel Seth. We have dedicated our entire life to making movies. Our life has been movies. We feel bad when someone abuses our hard work in this manner.”

The short visual piece titled Getting Real With Suhel is produced by Alternation. And though it is still unclear as to who exactly is behind the production, it is evident that the makers are gearing up to make a rather controversial splash in the industry, albeit via the Internet.

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“Karnataka is not ensuring the flows in the Cauvery as per the monthly pattern prescribed in the interim order in force or as per the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal in the crucial months of June to September”, the chief minister said in a letter to the PM.

Jayalalithaa charged Karnataka with unjustly utilising the water for summer irrigation from February to May by depleting the storage in its four major reservoirs. The combined gross storage in the four reservoirs as on February, 1, 2012 was 58.50 tmcft. While on May 14, the combined storage was 28.176 tmcft, Karnataka has depleted 30.33 tmcft from February 1 to May 14, besides utilising the flows of about 11 tmcft”, she claimed. “Thus, the total utilisation from February 1 is 41 tmcft,” she said.

Due to depletion of storage during summer months, Karnataka impounds all the initial monsoon flows in its reservoirs and releases water only when they start to surplus, thus affecting the inflows into the Mettur Dam in Tamil Nadu, which consequently affects the crop seasons very badly and also delays the cultivation, Jayalalithaa said, justifying her call for a meeting of the Cauvery Authority, headed by the PM.

“As you are aware, the finalisation of the distress sharing formula evolved by the Central Water Commission is eluding a solution. This has ultimately deprived Tamil Nadu of adequate water which should have been released by Karnataka either as per the interim order of the Tribunal or by the formula evolved”, she said. The Cauvery Monitoring Committee in its 24th meeting had decided to refer the formula to the Cauvery River Authority for consideration when noticeable distress condition occurs in future.

“Such a distress situation may arise at any time”, she said. Moreover, the interim order by the Cauvery Water disputes Tribunal, which is in force, specifies that Karnataka shall not increase its area under irrigation beyond 11.20 lakh acres. But Karnataka was not furnishing year wise details of the area under irrigation, she said.

Jayalalithaa also reminded Singh that in an earlier letter to him in October last year, she had requested that he issue instructions to the Ministry of Water Resources to notify the Final Order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, passed in February 2007, in the Gazette of India. “However, the Minister of Water Resources informed me it would be appropriate to consider notification of the order once the matter is disposed of by the Supreme Court.”

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The ambassador’s recall on Friday escalated an increasingly tense diplomatic spat between Italy and India. The two naval guards, members of a military security team protecting a merchant vessel, were formally charged hours earlier in connection with the shooting of two Indian fishermen in February.

The sailors, who have been held in the southern Indian state of Kerala, are due to appear in court on Saturday for a bail hearing.

Italy’s deputy foreign minister, Staffan de Mistura, on his third mission to India to push for the sailors to be released into Italian custody, said the decision to recall the ambassador followed a flurry of failed diplomatic efforts.

It came after three telephone calls by Italian prime minister Mario Monti to his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh, a visit by Italy’s defence minister and his own missions to India, he told Reuters from Kerala.

It also followed the “absurd accusation of premeditated murder”, De Mistura said.

“It is a signal of profound displeasure,” he said. Italy argues that jurisdiction over the naval guards should lie with Rome because the incident occurred in international waters, but the Indian government maintains that it is a matter for the courts and that it does not have the authority to intervene.

Asked whether the case had damaged Italian-Indian ties, De Mistura said: “We are sending a strong signal to avoid damaging our relationship.”

India’s foreign ministry played down the recall, saying it did not indicate relations had soured.

The two sailors were stationed on a merchant ship off the southern Indian coast tasked with protecting it from pirate attacks. They fired warning shots at a fishing boat on Feb. 15, believing it to be a pirate vessel, they said.

The naval guards were charged with murder shortly after the incident in February. Under Indian law, initial charges are formalized by police after investigation and before a trial can begin. A hearing to select a date for the trial is scheduled for May 25, Kerala’s deputy public prosecutor said on Friday.

One of the murder charges carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, but another can be punished by death, though the central government would have to approve that. India has not used the death penalty for several years.

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“It is not a cartoon. We love the cartoon. Cartoon is a different thing. He is a CPI-M man, He misused the e-mail of his society people without their consent. He forwarded it to 60 people,” Banerjee said angrily when a student from Jadavpur University asked her about the arrest of Prof Ambikesh Mahapatra.

Claiming that the professor was not an intellectual, but a “CPM agent”, she told the moderator that “after election CPM had sent thousands of CDs, if you are a woman and if you see them, you will feel ashamed. CPM and Maoists are working together.”

” … The message in the cartoon which contained the word ‘vanish’ is a murder conspiracy and a plot supported by CPM. What he has done is a cyber crime. It is not a cartoon, it is a political conspiracy to murder me,” Banerjee claimed.

Stating that her government believed in democracy, she said, “Otherwise, he (Ambikesh) should have been in custody. He has done a wrong thing. He misused the e-mail. I know that Maoist people and CPM are putting up these questions,” the chief minister told an interactive session organised by news channel CNN-IBN.

When a girl from Jadavpur University rose to ask a question, Banerjee asked “Why (students from) other universities are not here? There are so many universities. You tell me why, What about the others.

“Are you a Maoist?” Banerjee asked the girl. The student shot back, “I am not a Maoist.” When the moderator referred to crime against women in the state, Banerjee dismissively said, “no crime. No crime against women.”

Told by a questioner that she had supported the Maoists at the national level in an apparent reference to her statement that the killing of Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was “not correct”, the chief minister replied, “we did not support the Maoists. This is wrong.”

To an another question, Banerjee said, “we don’t support the Maoists. There are so many things and other issues to ask. What is this nonsense going on? Maoists people are here. They are Maoist students. I cannot answer the Maoists’ questions and CPM questions.

“They are the CPM cadres. I am not going to reply. I will give reply to questions from common people. I am sorry to say you belong to CPM. You are SFI cadres. We know all of you,” a furious Banerjee told the audience.

“You did not tell me before,” she told the moderator before making her exit.

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“Karnataka is not ensuring the flows in the Cauvery as per the monthly pattern prescribed in the interim order in force or as per the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal in the crucial months of June to September”, the chief minister said in a letter to the PM.

Jayalalithaa charged Karnataka with unjustly utilising the water for summer irrigation from February to May by depleting the storage in its four major reservoirs. The combined gross storage in the four reservoirs as on February, 1, 2012 was 58.50 tmcft. While on May 14, the combined storage was 28.176 tmcft, Karnataka has depleted 30.33 tmcft from February 1 to May 14, besides utilising the flows of about 11 tmcft”, she claimed. “Thus, the total utilisation from February 1 is 41 tmcft,” she said.

Due to depletion of storage during summer months, Karnataka impounds all the initial monsoon flows in its reservoirs and releases water only when they start to surplus, thus affecting the inflows into the Mettur Dam in Tamil Nadu, which consequently affects the crop seasons very badly and also delays the cultivation, Jayalalithaa said, justifying her call for a meeting of the Cauvery Authority, headed by the PM.

“As you are aware, the finalisation of the distress sharing formula evolved by the Central Water Commission is eluding a solution. This has ultimately deprived Tamil Nadu of adequate water which should have been released by Karnataka either as per the interim order of the Tribunal or by the formula evolved”, she said. The Cauvery Monitoring Committee in its 24th meeting had decided to refer the formula to the Cauvery River Authority for consideration when noticeable distress condition occurs in future.

“Such a distress situation may arise at any time”, she said. Moreover, the interim order by the Cauvery Water disputes Tribunal, which is in force, specifies that Karnataka shall not increase its area under irrigation beyond 11.20 lakh acres. But Karnataka was not furnishing year wise details of the area under irrigation, she said.

Jayalalithaa also reminded Singh that in an earlier letter to him in October last year, she had requested that he issue instructions to the Ministry of Water Resources to notify the Final Order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, passed in February 2007, in the Gazette of India. “However, the Minister of Water Resources informed me it would be appropriate to consider notification of the order once the matter is disposed of by the Supreme Court.”

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Vidya has been a part of many commercial campaigns before, but this could be her first as a brand ambassador. However, the measly 30 lakh that she is rumoured to be getting for this does not match up with the kind of success she’s achieved onscreen.

Says a source, “The endorsement is for a new venture in apparel by a big jewellery brand. Even though Vidya has not really lived in Kerala, she is a Malayali, and that brings in the local connect. She may have also agreed for the same reason. Of course, Vidya is a big name now, and she really deserves more.”

Attempts to elicit a response/comment from the actor were in vain as Vidya is, apparently, on a contract that prevents her from talking to the media till June.

Even in Bollywood there seems to be no logic on how endorsement deals are made. Actors’ remunerations are, mostly, not commensurate with their talent. For example, Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone get paid far more than Vidya Balan. Even more frustrating is the fact is if you were to go by the reasoning that an actor’s remuneration should match up to their box office status, Vidya has been shortchanged for all these years.

Take just two recent examples: The Dirty Picture and Kahaani. Both films doubled their investment at the box office, got very decent satellite right prices and even got good revenues from overseas markets. Yet, today, Vidya, called a hero by both her filmmakers, Milan Luthria and Sujoy Ghosh, is still to break into the 2 crore price bracket. Whereas Katrina and Deepika are offered 2.5-3 cr without any negotiation.

Honestly, guys, don’t you think she deserves more?

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