The deadly duo

Allen Octavian Hume, an European founded the Congress. Another European and her half-European son are out to write the epitaph for the same. Theory of natural justice demands that the creator of a chaos ends that as well.

Mahatma Gandhi wanted to shut down Congress after Independence. This mother-son duo are out to honor the Mahatma's words.

Let us welcome Rahul's elevation to the top slot to expedite the Mahatma's dream.

The Chatterboxes

Something or other happens and people who maintain a stoic silence otherwise start talking that too incongruously . Well, it is true that people are entitled to their opinions but they generally keep quiet at happenings and once something happens that draws most people's attention, the stiff-upper lips start their verbal diarrhea.

The problem with verbal diarrhea is that during such times, the mind shuts down automatically and the tongue begins its run and stops only when it has grown tired.

Yes, you guessed it right. The recent utterances of their Eminences on the Delhi rape case is what this piece is about.

The RSS chief who generally maintains his dignity opened up. His piece on the difference between Bharat and India was a bit confusing. He could have left it at that. It would not have caused any damage. People would have forgotten what he had said. But he didn't stop. He pontificated on a 'social contract ' that was supposedly known as marriage and advised women to be at home while allowing their husbands to work. Well, that would have been alright for those husbands that work. How about Tamil Nadu where the men folk from the working class spend most of their time in TASMAC - the govts' wine shops for the masses ? Who would provide for the family if the wife didn't work? Well, you could say that the govt provides free rice, tv and the lot. But the govt doesn't provide education worth the salt. So the children would have to go to "English" medium schools to learn Tamil. How would that be possible if the wife didn't work as a house maid or a mid-day-meal worker?

How about the unfortunate women without their husbands? ( in some cases they are fortunate that they didn't have the need to live with drunkard husbands ). How would they live without working? Yes they have free colored TV sets to pass their time but TV sets need power supply to work.

How about the other group that has live in relationships? Can the women stay out of work while depending on their live-in partners . What happens if they don't get married eventually ?

These are some of the questions that the RSS chief didn't touch upon. Probably somebody advise him to talk on those issues in their next meeting.

Then came Asaram Bapu of Delhi. He pontificated that the braveheart should have called her rapists 'brothers'. Probably that brotherly invocation would have resulted in a rakhi ceremony.

The utterances of some BJP ministers from Chhatisgarh are indicative of the dire need to open up lunatic asylums in their hordes. The asylum entrepreneurs have ready clientele in the BJP ministers. For Congress, you need a reserve forest kind of set up.

I think these eminents have taken a vow to be in the limelight for their 15 minutes of eminence and thus have mouthed such un-heard of material that has only resulted in making us believe that Tamil Comedy Actor Vadivelu needs to come back on screen ASAP and resume his comedy lest we get lesser qualified comedians.
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An apology - ( posted on 13-Jan-2013 )

My apologies. I was a bit over-enthusiastic. The RSS chief has not said those that are attributed to him it seems. As usual our English media has hoodwinked me. But this is yet another instance of anti-right philosophy and prejudice of the English media against the right.  Got to know the truth from the following site.

http://www.newslaundry.com/2013/01/snide-and-prejudiced/

Much ado about Mani Shankar Iyer

So he is at it again. Verbal diarrhea at its worst. Recent episode is about the MPs being loud mouthed in Parliament. He has said that they are animals and hence shout like one. In a way he is right to a great extent. However if we look at his performance in the Rajya Sabha especially during the Lok Pal debate, we find that he was on his feet as well as on top of his voice for the most part because Ram Jethmalani chose to malign Rajiv Gandhi. Hence Mani wanted to draw attention from the "family" and hence tried his best in the vocal contest.

Now let us look at what is wrong with Mani and what is right about what he said.

Mani, the quintessential leftist in the centre-left govt that he has been part of, came to stardom due to his classmate Rajiv Gandhi. Schooled at Doon school and later at St.Stephens Delhi, he got the "holier than thou" attitude once he became a foreign service officer. Later when his friend became the PM, he resigned from bureaucracy and became the minister of Panchayati Raj ( yes , you are right . The term Panchayati Raj differs from Goonda Raj in that they are differently spelled and also that Panchayati Raj is the term often associated with alien life and ministers, if assigned one, are mostly on the verge of entering a lunatic asylum).

With Rajiv's demise, he faded away and tried various sycophantic means to be in power but was over powered by vested interests ( read Reliance, US, Essar etc ) and shifted out of the petroleum ministry. From then on he has become the non-official guarantor of secularism in national TV.

Having tried many means of being in the limelight, he tried his best to be of some relevance in Tamil Nadu. While at the center he is an outcast because of his "imaginary" leftist views, he is despised in Tamil Nadu because of his surname ( IYER is a four letter word in Tamil Nadu ) and an acerbic tongue that seems to suggest that who ever happens to be on the other side of him would need to declare himself as a nincompoop.

However one eminently admirable trait of Mani is his ability to pretend that he is immensely wanted in the Congress party and speak thus in the media. However sycophantic he has tried to be, he has so far been kept away from the corridors of power by the powers that be ( read Reliance, US ). Hence his diatribe against the parliamentarians now.

Not that what he said was not right. Manis' words are true to the last dot. We don't see anything happening in the Parliament. What we see regularly in the parliament is the routine of parliamentarians testing their vocal cords and their lung power and in some cases their 6.5 packs as well ( being MPs they are entitled to an extra 0.5 pack more than ordinary folks ).

But I would not pardon Mani for his remark that all MPs shout like animals inside the parliament. How could he say so against the MPs from Tamil Nadu ? Has anybody seen any MP from Tamil Nadu speak in parliament, leave alone shout ? How dignified and polite ( read dumb founded ) they are in Parliament ? While in Delhi, the only time they open their mouth is in the Parliament canteen.

Wait a minute - I need to scold Mani for his remark on MPs especially the Tamil MPs despite their dignified behavior. How could he be so unjust to the Tamil MPs ? How could he accuse them of shouting when they don't know what is happening in the Parliament as the other MPs shout either in Hindi or in English , albeit rarely ? They often stand up in Parliament dumb founded resembling an Anna Durai statue. The only difference between the Tamil MPs and the Prime Minister is that the latter speaks once on Aug 15.

Hence , Mani, beware, my Tamil Blood is boiling beyond any measurable limit due to your intemperate comments. Please apologize to the Tamil MPs as you cannot accuse them of any shouting in Parliament when they have hardly opened their mouths either for Sri Lanka or Cauvery or FDI or Mullai Periyar or anything of interest to the common man.

I give you a way out of this conundrum. If you can't apologize to the MPs, then apologize to the animals for comparing them with MPs.