Winds of change are blowing: Ram Jethmalani
Excerpts from a recent article in sunday guardian:
On Rahul Gandhi's enigmatic smile:
However, he left behind something invaluable for psychologists and artists to ponder about, and that was the enigma of his smile that flashed on and off, as his mother read out the requiem for the Congress party and humbly accepting the people's verdict. I cannot recall any smile after Mona Lisa that has intrigued so many and inspired so much comment. Every inflection of it has been captured, played and replayed to figure out what it was all about. And by and large, there seems to be unanimity that his smile generally expressed great joy and relief that he had been spared the cumbersome and unnecessary responsibility of directly inheriting his father's, grandmother's, and great-grandfather's legacy (exercising it indirectly would have been most pleasurable).
Sonia's gutter mouth:
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[TD]However, he left behind something invaluable for psychologists and artists to ponder about, and that was the enigma of his smile that flashed on and off, as his mother read out the requiem for the Congress party and humbly accepting the people's verdict. I cannot recall any smile after Mona Lisa that has intrigued so many and inspired so much comment. Every inflection of it has been captured, played and replayed to figure out what it was all about. And by and large, there seems to be unanimity that his smile generally expressed great joy and relief that he had been spared the cumbersome and unnecessary responsibility of directly inheriting his father's, grandmother's, and great-grandfather's legacy (exercising it indirectly would have been most pleasurable).
I am reminded at this point about the utterances of Sonia Gandhi over the last decade in her description of a true son of the soil, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. Her Hindi tutors probably thought they would earn easy brownie points, by getting her to articulate some slanderous and sensational coinages that become headlines, such as, maut ka saudagar and zahar ki kheti. But the coinages were costly, the first resulting in a terrific backlash and giving Narendra Modi a resounding electoral victory as Chief Minister in 2002, post riots, and the second giving Modi an unprecedented victory as Prime Minister in the recent election.
And how her highest priority, next to looting the nation, was to somehow accuse Narendra Modi without a shred of evidence of every crime she could fabricate. The strategy was meticulously conceived and executed through multi-pronged attack — employing the might of state power during the last decade of UPA rule; commandeering an army of NGOs funded from questionable sources; and keeping the pressure on media allies, to ensure Modi's political assassination. I have written enough about the Goebbelsian propaganda perpetrated against Modi, even though he took every step to bring the unfortunate riot situation under control and take action against the perpetrators, both Hindu and Muslim, unlike his Congress predecessors under whom riots and their aftermath went on for months together, and perpetrators still roam free. After Modi's phenomenal success this month, when Sonia Gandhi and her son met Narendra Modi face to face, they should have both bowed before him and sought forgiveness for their vile fabrication of false charges and vicious abuse. Narendra Modi has of course left them to the judgement of Providence or God in whom he fervently believes.
Winds of change are blowing
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