Fake Gandhis

Why do parents name their kids after personalities who they think are great? I have rich experience on this subject. I’ll quote two examples. When I was at my grade 6 there was this guy whose name was Sashi Kumar whose father was a judge, this was in Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh. Suddenly to my surprise one fine morning in school this guy told all his friends that from now on his name is Nelson Nehru. I asked him what the matter is. He replied that he has no idea, as suddenly his father has changed his name. Though I did not get it at that tender age, I could guess what motivated my friend’s father to suddenly change his name to Nelson Nehru, this could possibly be due to his new found love with Nehru & Nelson Mandela? That is an educated guess. 

Another experience was with a guy called Mohammed, he is from Tondiarpet, Chennai who has four male kids and the names of all end with Castro. One thing I know for sure is that his last son who was newly born I recall Mohammed naming him King’s Castro.  Then I asked him a rhetorical question, will it not lead to confusion? I.e., naming all kids with a similar name. He replied that it shows how much he loves Cuba’s Fidel Castro. This Mohammed was an electrician who was working for a daily wage of Rs.110. It is entirely a different matter whether those who were named after such personalities actually live up to the expectations of their parents.

One would wonder as to what would have forced Jawaharlal Nehru to name his daughter Indira as Indira Gandhi, because from then on Feroz Khan has become Feroz Gandhi and their son Rajiv Gandhi and so on. There could be two reasons. One reason could be Nehru would have wanted his kids to emulate the character of the personality (Gandhi, in this case) on whose name he named his daughter. Second possible reason could be that he wanted to appropriate the legacy of the person on whose credentials the whole congress organization stood and turn it in to a family run enterprise; current day congress is exactly that, family run enterprise.

Mahatma Gandhi was the only original Gandhi that Congress party ever had; everyone else is a fake Gandhi. Raul Vince will not become Mahatma Gandhi just because he goes by his another name called as Rahul Gandhi in public. To think otherwise is a great insult to the intelligence of an ordinary Indian citizen. So all that mellow dramas through orchestrated speeches will not change anything on the ground, you are what you are.

Rahul Gandhi’s speech: A great stress buster

I often felt that I should not appear to be unrealistic though I am realistic when it comes to commenting on Rahul Gandhi’s ability steer this country in to abyss or greater heights. To be a leader you must be an orator and which language you use really does not matter, because it mostly depends on the audience. Let’s not be unfair to Rahul by calling him a great orator or leader for that matter. If congress supporters say that Rahul Gandhi is a messiah for India because they simply have no other option but to project, promote and ultimately if possible make him a prime minister, if it ever happened that would be a highest low point for India. But I am cent percent sure that all those praising him are smirking in private. “Look at this Idiot?”

Going back to oratory. Ram jeth Malani concluded that he is not even fit for a clerk job then how can he be the right choice for PM post, he must be feeling vindicated at the moment. When he chose to read prepared statements in parliament, he just stuck to his paper and rushed through to the end. Though he started off with reading out firstly CII, I think he was consciously attempting to maintain the eye contact. While he was making up with eye contact he lost track of the script? The moment he attempted extempore he was surely lost and it was all fun from then on for the audience and for those who watched him in TV. Now I realize why Dr.Subramaniam Swamy keeps calling him a buddhu, apt name indeed.

Rahul Gandhi is congress’s last straw in the dynasty, yes we have Priyanka and Vadra too, it is not their chance yet or they may not get it at all? Ever since the news broke out of his speech in CII, the whole propaganda machine was in full spin, services of NDTV and CNNIBN cannot be ignored. It was a great stress buster for me; I am sure for many it would have been including the hard core congress supporters just that they will not agree it in public but continue to claim that he is right opponent to Modi, my take is ‘please give Modi a good fight’. In North Korea if you did not cry for Kim’s death (the current leader’s father) you will be condemned, it is the same situation here. Same is here for congress supporters; if you do no pep up your master you could lose your points.

And the notorious anchors of few English channels based out of Delhi who covered this event extensively did not realize that for all the funding they got from clique they did more harm to Rahul Gandhi. Ie., by broadcasting his message. Few people have rightly asserted that do not injustice to RG by comparing with strong man Narendra Modi.

Another fact to be noted is how the whole corrupt system is under pressure to propel him further up. After his speech it is confirmed that Modi remains unstoppable. I agree to an extent with Modi haters that yes with diversified population and with complex regional interests and identities it is a tough task for him to convince some one in Kanyakumari for example, but he is surely working on it. It is unfair to pit RG against Modi. If few left inclined bigots say RG is greater than Modi then they are victimizing RG. They should stop it forthwith.

In the mean time Rahul Gandhi must attend spoken English and personality development classes, if he is already attending them, the training must be intensified or we are left to think that trainers are not effective. God Bless Raul Vinci.