Perhaps no other State Assembly election in the recent past has generated so much heat as the Gujarat poll. After Emergency, this is the first election when an individual is ranged against a battery of opponents -- a hostile media, a fairly united Opposition, 'eminent' intelligentsia and hordes of party defectors. But unlike post-Emergency, Mr Narendra Modi, the protagonist of the Gujarat election, remains hugely popular with the people of the State. Never before have we witnessed such an openly partisan campaigning by a prominent section of the media as in the present case. A host of television crews shooting in Gujarat has been jeered by hostile crowds that rightly believe that the media has gone completely overboard. Is it that this brigade of 'secular' mercenaries, comprising journalists, filmmakers, social 'scientists' and activists, has descended on Gujarat merely to rid it of Mr Modi? There is a kind of intellectual snobbishness associated with the phenomenon too. Some 'brown sahib' graduates from JNU, AMU and DU have arrogated upon themselves a Thomas Macaulay-like urge to 'civilise' Gujarat's entrepreneurs whom the Nehruvian socialists see as less evolved educationally. For, the most of post-independence period, the jholawala's writ has run unchallenged. It, therefore, frustrates them to see Gujarat refusing to yield to their wisdom. Despite socialism having lost its case worldwide, the JNU-type jholawalas notice a clear threat in the success of Gujarat's capit
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by Srinivas KS on Dec 19, 2007 09:40 AM Permalink
Oh man, why dont start writing for redff other magazines? Keep it up!
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by ved prakash on Dec 18, 2007 02:14 PM Permalink
WELL SAID,but the jholawalas are so booged down by their commitments being anti Indian anti Hindu and anti progress & develoment that they will never read this piece just skip it lest thye get hurt where it pains most.
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by Calspadeaspade on Dec 18, 2007 07:19 PM Permalink
Is it possible India will devide with this kind of anarchy introduced by congress/commies and media?
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by Kalyanraman Venkataraman on Dec 18, 2007 03:07 PM Permalink
Excellent Nagesh Singh. The same jholawalas justify what happened in Nandigram and the secular mafia is mum about it. I feel communal Modi is more safer than secular jholawalas, as we do not know where we stand with the secular mafia. They are indeed secular fundamentalists!
