I protest! Someone had to do it [and fools do rush in where angels fear to tread].
I have nothing for or against the poor chap but the number of really bad writers taking a passing swipe at the young man is now really getting to be, well, not quite politics. SoDe trashes him once a fortnight just to keep herself relevant [bedroom capers should stay in the boudoir]. CheBhag [poetically split between 2 states of the prosaic] suddenly got reminded of the Emperor’s new clothes and wants someone to stand up and say that Rahul isn’t strengthening the Cong’s hand. Keep your mixed metaphors tucked safely in your frillies, I say!
He’s already said he doesn’t want the power [with his bloodline, it can get boring!]. He hasn’t been indicted on any gun grease shenanigan. He hasn’t pillaged and plundered, yet. He has eaten with rural folk in the UP dustbowl, walked with people in Gondli Karoli, looks like he works out [good thing, that], showers, shaves occasionally, is educated and has a delightful dimple. He hasn’t burnt people, or landscammed, or stolen fodder from cattle, or siphoned off of the rice scheme, yet. Now, I do understand that this hardly constitutes a resume but in the backdrop of the bathetic pehle AAP being played out in Delhi why should RaGa face the bad music. One is sulking, the other is dithering and young Gandhi just took a bashing!
His minders, firstly, need a sharp elbow in the ribs. His ‘aunts and uncles’ in the cabinet boil up an unwholesome brew, act totally analog in a digital time, screw up Brobdingnagian-style and when the bowl is steaming usher in RaGa for a casual press conference with a smirking faux innocence. They don’t shield him, he protects them! Political leanings aside, speaking up for the defenseless is good Karma - and in the current political climate of if-it-ain’t-broke-trash-and-burn it, his 'do less slowly' [and under advisement] could be an equal evil, but his support for Gay and Lesbian rights definitely makes him fresher in thought and more forward looking than the SC.
When the curtains fell on Mrs. G young Rajiv was a shoo in. Could it be RaGa’s fate that his mother is not as powerful as his father’s? Is his backdrop not tragic enough, yet? Can a party of a 100 years not find its backbone or another leader? Can the opposition not find a single relevant issue besides the idea of his impending ascension? Let’s face it, we want to be ruled from a bully pulpit and the young man could be too well brought up to be either a bully or a pitbull.
Well, I agree, he could have done a few things differently – like not enter politics or become a professor, for instance. Or married someone he loved and made babies by now. Maybe become the Minister of State for Education, or Finance. He could have been coached to speak better – we live in a world where big bad ideas shouted with conviction are always viewed as good leadership. And speaking in English is seen as a chasm of disconnect with the aam aadmi. RaGa has, in his way of starting to explain an idea and then providing an argument to support it without completing either, a shadow pretension of being an unmindful geek. But that quality doesn’t deserve a stabbing by friends, opponents and passers-by alike.
There, I have done it now – written badly in my attempt to protect the shy reluctant from insipid diatribe. And my excuse is the same as has been for every bad idea since the dawn of history – it just had to be done!
I have nothing for or against the poor chap but the number of really bad writers taking a passing swipe at the young man is now really getting to be, well, not quite politics. SoDe trashes him once a fortnight just to keep herself relevant [bedroom capers should stay in the boudoir]. CheBhag [poetically split between 2 states of the prosaic] suddenly got reminded of the Emperor’s new clothes and wants someone to stand up and say that Rahul isn’t strengthening the Cong’s hand. Keep your mixed metaphors tucked safely in your frillies, I say!
He’s already said he doesn’t want the power [with his bloodline, it can get boring!]. He hasn’t been indicted on any gun grease shenanigan. He hasn’t pillaged and plundered, yet. He has eaten with rural folk in the UP dustbowl, walked with people in Gondli Karoli, looks like he works out [good thing, that], showers, shaves occasionally, is educated and has a delightful dimple. He hasn’t burnt people, or landscammed, or stolen fodder from cattle, or siphoned off of the rice scheme, yet. Now, I do understand that this hardly constitutes a resume but in the backdrop of the bathetic pehle AAP being played out in Delhi why should RaGa face the bad music. One is sulking, the other is dithering and young Gandhi just took a bashing!
His minders, firstly, need a sharp elbow in the ribs. His ‘aunts and uncles’ in the cabinet boil up an unwholesome brew, act totally analog in a digital time, screw up Brobdingnagian-style and when the bowl is steaming usher in RaGa for a casual press conference with a smirking faux innocence. They don’t shield him, he protects them! Political leanings aside, speaking up for the defenseless is good Karma - and in the current political climate of if-it-ain’t-broke-trash-and-burn it, his 'do less slowly' [and under advisement] could be an equal evil, but his support for Gay and Lesbian rights definitely makes him fresher in thought and more forward looking than the SC.
When the curtains fell on Mrs. G young Rajiv was a shoo in. Could it be RaGa’s fate that his mother is not as powerful as his father’s? Is his backdrop not tragic enough, yet? Can a party of a 100 years not find its backbone or another leader? Can the opposition not find a single relevant issue besides the idea of his impending ascension? Let’s face it, we want to be ruled from a bully pulpit and the young man could be too well brought up to be either a bully or a pitbull.
Well, I agree, he could have done a few things differently – like not enter politics or become a professor, for instance. Or married someone he loved and made babies by now. Maybe become the Minister of State for Education, or Finance. He could have been coached to speak better – we live in a world where big bad ideas shouted with conviction are always viewed as good leadership. And speaking in English is seen as a chasm of disconnect with the aam aadmi. RaGa has, in his way of starting to explain an idea and then providing an argument to support it without completing either, a shadow pretension of being an unmindful geek. But that quality doesn’t deserve a stabbing by friends, opponents and passers-by alike.
There, I have done it now – written badly in my attempt to protect the shy reluctant from insipid diatribe. And my excuse is the same as has been for every bad idea since the dawn of history – it just had to be done!
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