Keeping score

It is not always that you need a formal invitation to invite a guest for a function, even a small gesture could do the trick. Or so Minister for Statistics and Programme Implementation M S Gill discovered during his weekend golf sessions with his partner Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia. In Gill’s own words, the two would regularly meet on weekends to play golf and, more often than not, they would compete to lose. Last week, Gill voluntarily chose to lose to Ahluwalia, and then asked him to be the chief guest at the annual statistics day celebration. The deputy chairman readily agreed, so Gill’s purpose was solved notwithstanding that he lost to the Planning Commission deputy chairman that day.