The finks at the Intelligence Bureau and assorted government departments have been up to no good ever since the Tehelka Tapes expose broke - but it's got a bit less shameful and spectacularly more brazen over the past days, says Aniruddha Bahal , detailing several instances New Delhi, April 5 N ot so many years ago, when crackers on Diwali were politically correct, there used to be this unpredictable, sulphurous product called the seeti . It's been banned since then. Rotating at perhaps 50 revolutions per second, it would take off into the air like a rocket - but that's where the similarity ended.
Rockets are, by and large, predictable.
In fact, hugely so, compared to the seeti . With the seeti , no one ever knew where it was headed. Whrrr zoom it would go. I have seen it travel up a friend's pyjama - no jokes. His leg lay trussed up in bandages for two weeks.