Politically connect for Sidhu

There's always good humour when Navjot Singh Sidhu's around. His political aspirations seem to have got a lift lately and Ajith Pillai imagines his secret diary in Outlook magazine.

“Surprise him, Navjot,” an inner voice told me, “surprise him like Murali foxes batsmen with his doosra.” I pondered for a while and then saw the (100 watt) light. “Learn some Marathi, good fella, that will astonish him,” I told myself. So, pronto I rung up Raj Thackeray. “Maharaj, you have to help me with this one. If not, I will be like a drowning man who left his straw behind in the dressing room,” I pleaded.