Sambit
Patra is the best comic entertainer in contemporary Indian politics after
Narendra Modi. He is like a clown on the trapeze while Modi behaves like the
ringmaster. I love both of them for the entertainment they provide to the
nation. But they do a lot of disservice to the nation.
Arrey
bhai, the people elected you to serve them. Do you know that we are still a
democracy? The ultimate power is with the people. They can throw you out next
year if you still keep barking and biting like stray dogs. All that religious
stuff you’re peddling won’t do any good. What does Ram Mandir or Patel Statue
mean to the man on the street who is struggling to earn his daily bread?
Sambit
Patra is a joy to watch on the TV when you have nothing else to do. He is the
re-avatar of Gau-Swami who shouted at all of us for a long time on sell-out Times
Now. Like the Cow-Swami, Sam-bit will get his boot soon. I’ll miss his trapeze
art then. Like his demand to the Congress to dismiss Dr Shashi Tharoor for
telling unpleasant truths.
Unpleasant
truths and religion have seldom gone together unless religion wanted to
blackmail the penitent as it is happening now in Kerala with some Christian priests
who are being arrested for loving a woman in a way that Jesus would have found
too Trump-able.
The
priests in Kerala are being arrested. Why are the similar BJP rapists in North
India not being arrested? Instead they are giving us lectures on the TV! Arrey
Bhaiyon our Bahanon in Cow-States, wake up. You are being deceived lock, stock
and barrel. You are being converted into a Hindu Pakistan.
Ram,
Ram! I uttered blasphemy! In fact, I’m just quoting Dr Shashi Tharoor, one of
the few intelligent and educated and cultured and yet audible politicians we
still have in our Lok Sabha. Dear Dr Tharoor, I happened to read quite a lot of
things you wrote and I’m convinced that you are blessed with much more than cow
dung between your ears. Please continue to speak and write in spite of the cow-shit
faithful.
Faith
has vanished from the world. We live with WhatsApp and FaceBook. And a few
idiots like me still put their faith in the evolved faculty called brain. You
possess that, Dr Tharoor. Do bear with India and make it India. Not a Hindu Pakistan.
Let Modi have his world tours for one more year. Let Sam-bit have his insane
glory on the TV too for the same period. After that, let India have some
sensible people to rule it. If you can, please rise, rise like the proverbial
phoenix. We are ready to accept the kind of Hinduism that you presented in your
latest book. Go ahead,
make India a Hindu nation if you want it. I will fight for you, die for you –
at least, vote for you.
Shashi Taroor is a free thinking and mature politician with a balanced independant voice (rare these days). If he has expressed apprehensions, there is something to it.
ReplyDeleteWith decisions such as setting up a body to monitor social networks and blogs, the Modi govt is obviously becoming more and more dictatorial.
Delete"The priests in Kerala are being arrested. Why are the similar BJP rapists in North India not being arrested? " - One, factually incorrect. Two, it is very sad when the arrest of one rapist is compared to the arrest of another on the basis of their religion. A criminal has no religion.
ReplyDeleteGoogle and you will get the results.
DeleteOnly criminals have religion. Saints have no religion.