Read this Novel, You will under stand how Surjeet Singh made Congress to come to Power in 2004. Even he paid crores to TV chennels to convert NDA's India shining Campaign to a Joke. Darshan Singh is close fallower of Surjeet Singh for a long time.
RE:Darshan Singhs Novel Bhaau
by kiainth on Jul 01, 2008 02:59 PM Permalink
Chandigarh: One day in 2004, at a house on Safdarjung Road in New Delhi’s Lutyens area, a venerable Sikh Marxist leader counsels a European lady who heads one of India’s largest parties on the coming general elections. With a picture of Vladimir Lenin watching over proceedings, he tells her how to edge ahead of the ruling party that seems to be leading in the electoral race. “Call the Dravidian party,” he says. “Talk to the Maratha leader who questioned your Indianness....” That incident, which could well be an encapsulation of events leading to the Congress’ surprise win in 2004, isn’t a non-fiction retelling of the same by someone involved in the victory. Instead, it is from a Punjabi work of fiction titled Bhaau that hit the stands less than a fortnight ago. Insider’s view: Darshan Singh, author of Bhaau. (Harikrishna Katragadda / Mint)Written by Darshan Singh, 80, who has known Harkishan Singh Surjeet—the ailing Communist Party of India (Marxist) stalwart whom many consider to be the architect of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance’s ride to power in 2004—for a long time, Bhaau, which means elder brother in Punjabi, is a unique work of literature in a country where inside stories in politics are rarely written out—even if only as works of fiction. It is also a book that is likely to kick up a storm within the CPM with its not-so-kind references to current CPM chief Prakash Karat and hi
RE:RE:Darshan Singhs Novel Bhaau
by kiainth on Jul 01, 2008 03:01 PM Permalink
The protagonist of Bhaau is Karam Singh Kirti and the book tells the story of how he manages the inherent contradictions within the communist movement and his own party to create a secular alternative to a Hindu nationalist party in the 2004 elections. Darshan Singh refuses to admit that his work is a retelling of the life and times of Surjeet, who is 92. “It’s virtual reality,” is his cryptic remark. The blurb on the book talks of the protagonist as “an imaginary politician”. The novel also talks about Kirti’s differences with the then shadow general secretary, PR, a hardline communist leader, who is all set to replace him. It also speaks of how PR’s wife is all set to become a politburo member. On Sunday, Singh, once employed by the local information department of the erstwhile Soviet Union, responded to questions posed to him at a literary meet as to why he had taken the trouble by giving fictional names to characters that could be easily identified by saying that many “novels have been written about American presidents without naming them.” In the book, the European lady is simply called Madam and her Indianness is questioned by a man called Salve from Maharashtra who comes from a region where there are a lot of sugar mills (a reference to Sharad Pawar and Baramati). There’s another character called Bal Gopal who, when it becomes clear he will lose his chief ministership, gets his wife to replace him (a reference to Lalu Prasad). And there’s Pehlwan, another ch
RE:RE:Darshan Singhs Novel Bhaau
by All Right on Jul 01, 2008 03:06 PM Permalink
So it is fiction as admitted by you.
At least the old guard Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Jyothi Basu were pragmatic. They had polcies based in pragmatism. This is unlike Prakash Karat. He not only prevented Jyothi Basu as the first Left PM but now determined to ensure the Left into the path of oblivion.
From 59 MPs, if elections are held today, they will be hard-pressed to even retain one-third of these. Then a year from now, they will lose both Kerala and West Bengal.
RE:Darshan Singhs Novel Bhaau
by All Right on Jul 01, 2008 03:00 PM Permalink
Yes, all knickerwallahs are morons who think their rumor mongering would be lapped up by others. They think everyone else are morons.
