Random Thoughts 29…

∙ Whenever Progress gets too much, Fate puts obstacles in the way to check it.
The latest ones are Facebook and Twitter.

∙ If March 8 is Women’s Day, then the remaining 364 days are men’s days.
If November 14 is Children’s Day, then the remaining 364 days are adult’s days.
We will be truly civilized when every world citizen feels that every day is hers or his.

∙ Newsmakers yesterday: Will it impact the world?
Then: Will it impact the newspapers and TV channels?
Now: Will it impact the status messages?

∙ The Indian cricket fans’ goodwill is like the stock market, you never know which cricketers stock will crash and which will rise.

∙ You’ve heard of the 80:20 principle?
Well India works on the 99.80:0.20% principle.
99.80% of India has to put up with the bullshit of the remaining 0.20% all the time.

∙ True global democracy has arrived in cyberspace.
Now each and every one of us has friends, connections and even followers…

© Sunil Rajguru

The power of Motilal Nehru…

1947: Only Motilal’s son can save the nation.

1966: Only Motilal’s granddaughter can save the nation.

1984: Only Motilal’s great grandson can save the nation.

2014: Only Motilal’s great great grandson can save the nation.

Coming soon: Motilal’s great great great grandchildren have been born, so they will eventually become saviours too.

Elsewhere…

1948: Sheikh Abdullah will save Kashmir.

1984: Sheikh Abdullah’s son will save Kashmir.

2009: Sheikh Abdullah’s grandson will save Kashmir.

But there’s hope…

1967: Congress loses power for the first time in multiple States.

1977: Congress loses power for the first time at the Centre.

1984: Last time the Congress gets a majority on its own at the Centre.

1991: Last time the Congress forms a Government on its own at the Centre.

2004: First time a Nehru-Gandhi dynasty member cannot become PM despite having the numbers.

2014: Let’s hope many more records are created in this year…

© Sunil Rajguru

Said and unsaid…

Rahul Gandhi: If I get married and have children, I will be status-quoist and will like my children to take my place.
Unsaid: The Dynasty is the status quo of India. It flourished before you, it is flourishing through you right now and it will flourish through Priyanka and her family even after you. All your talk is empty like this.

Shashi Tharoor: At school, we learnt to answer the questions. At college, we learnt to question the answers. Some of us went further, and questioned the questions.
Unsaid: And now you’ve gone even further: Your government arrests those asking the questions!

Justice Katju: 90% Indians are stupid.
Unsaid: The more you speak, the more people are convinced that you’re in the 90%.

Rahul Bose: We have to ask ourselves of the five or six of the rapists of the December 16, is there anyone who wants to change, who wants to reform…
Unsaid: A fraction of those raped go to the police. A fraction of those successfully fight it out in courts. A fraction of those secure convictions. Now you want even that microscopic minority to get away through change and reform?

Sheila Dixit: Even my daughter feels unsafe in New Delhi.
Unsaid: Why, has her VVIP security cover been revoked?

Sheila Dixit: If power bills are more, use less power.
Unsaid: If petrol prices are high, walk. If food prices are high, starve…

Rahul Gandhi: Power is poison.
Unsaid: That makes the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty the biggest antidote to poison in the world!

These versions by Sunil Rajguru

Modi and the unwinnable argument…

Argument 1: Modi was guilty in Godhra.

If you can’t prove that, go to…

Argument 2: There is no development in Gujarat.

If you can’t prove that, go to…

Argument 3: The development figures of Gujarat are fudged.

If you can’t prove that, go to…

Argument 4: There is development in Gujarat, but it is totally lopsided, uneven and unfair.

If you can’t prove that, go to…

Argument 5: Progress in Gujarat has happened despite Modi, not because of him.

If you can’t prove that, go to Argument 1.

© Sunil Rajguru