If you don’t have it, you can’t talk about it
“All those who complain about Rahul Gandhi’s political lineage are people who have no lineage of their own. Remember he is an elected MP from Amethi. How can you wish away the contributions of his father, mother, grandmother, grandfather, and great-grandfather?”
Union minister of state for external affairs Anand Sharma, in conversation with Deepak Thimaya on the Udaya TV show, Time to Talk
Tags: Anand Sharma, Churumuri, Deepak Thimaya, Rahul Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Udaya TV
9 May 2008 at 4:37 pm
adeyaa!
How dare you question these wipers!
Gandhi’s are natural wipers(kaili wipe maaDtirtaralla imaginary windshield na) and Anand Sharma and Co. are traditionally Wiper’s Wipers — Asswipers!
9 May 2008 at 5:10 pm
Thabbaligalu naavella. We have no pedigree, degree, money, or influence. How can we even think of comparing ourselves with members of the Gandhi clan? They have two great men, the Mahatma and Nehru, among their ancestors. If she had not been the Mahatma’s granddaughter, Indira would never have been able to establish herself in the nation’s imaginary. Sonia Gandhi is our hope precisely because she is the great granddaughter of the Mahatma.
Gandhiji ki jai.
9 May 2008 at 9:23 pm
Why cant i compalin …”If you don’t have it, you can’t talk about it”..i have it as a citizen of this country..just by being part of “clan” it does not make him a freedom fighter or having the will of Iron lady(his grand mom) or the magnamity of his mom(she relinquished the PM post)..He should realise that just by being a Gandhi it is not the right of that person to rule India..you require competency..understand her diverse problems ..its idiosynchrocies …this is what we are questioning ..anything wrong with that..
PS : pulikeshi mahatma is not related to Nehru clan.Feroz Khan(Husband of Indira) changed his name to Feroz Gandhi when he was in UK…you can understand what would have happened with a khan surname in a Hindu country..
9 May 2008 at 11:52 pm
@spindoc
Guess yor are new in here. PTL’s post is completely lost on you
10 May 2008 at 8:35 pm
Thanks for coming to my aid, VP. But I must say that nothing can shake my belief that the ruling Gandhis are the Mahatma’s kin. How else explain Rajiv’s deliberate “balidaana” and his mother’s even greater “thyaaga,” both being central Gandhian tenets? Furthermore, Priyanka’s brilliant Colgate/Pepsodent/Rembrandt smile reminds me of the Mahatma’s own perpetual toothless grin except that, unfortunately, there were no professionals like our Dr. Ramesh to help MKG.
Only people like Sanjay Dutt understand the meaning of Gandhigiri. Even our own Lord Devegowda, Duke of Padmanabhanagara and adjoining realms, including and stretching beyond Ramanagara/m, has publicly said he found time to watch “Lage Raho,” an act that makes him a spiritual member of the Gandhi family. Don’t believe me? Ask Gopalakrishna Gandhi who is out to make Rameshwar Thakur a Gandhi like himself. Incidentally, Padmaja Naidu, a governor of W. Bengal, was a granddaughter of the Cricket great C. K. Naidu. We must find a Naidu for the IPL. Didn’t somebody say to forget the past is to re-live it?
10 May 2008 at 8:44 pm
Vitlan,
By the way, I adopted my pseudonym after watching that great movie made by our Tamil cousins, “Imsai Arasan Pulikesi,” banned in Karnataka because the KRV threatened to destroy the movie theatre where it was being shown. The trip to Chennai was well worth it. On the train, along with me, there were a whole bunch of non-Kannada ticketless people in my compartment and not one ticket inspector showed up all the way up to Chennai Central.
What’s in a name? A great deal. I am glad to see names like Amoghavarsha and Nripathunga on this very site.
10 May 2008 at 8:53 pm
I find Spindoc’s commentary thought-provoking. A name like “Khan” in a “Hindu” country. Let’s see, all the Khans of Bollywood, the nawab of Cricket, Pataudi, Deputy Speaker of the Rajya Sabha, Karnataka’s Rehman Khan, a few deputy commissioners and other assorted high officials named Khan. In the north, a meal is called “khana.”
Let’s not worry about Dilip Kumar.
11 May 2008 at 3:15 pm
And then they claim that they do not believe in Sycophancy!
Her ‘BALIDAAN”?
To-day she is said to be the most powerfull woman in the world!-where she could appoint a Prime Minister who lost the election and could pick and choose a “President” for the largest Republic in the world!
Read the article on her in Times London captioned “From Waitress to World leader” which graphically describes what made Rajiv to fall in love and rest as they say is History!http://in.rediff.com/election/2004/may/17sonia.htm
11 May 2008 at 6:49 pm
I have nothing against waitresses becoming empresses of India. Our own Devegowda rose from ragimudde to raagi malt and became emperor for about three hundred days. He had the courage to eat ragimudde at a state dinner and even rinsed his mouth in front of everybody to show everybody how health conscious he was. Both his bark and bite are lethal, as Hegde found out to his cost. Gowda lost his durbar in Delhi, but continues to be King of Karnataka, like my famed namesake of yore. What is a minor demotion?
Doddi Buddi, I am not calumniating raagimudde. I have even read “Raamadhanya Charithe, ” sitting right by Kanakana kindi.
Adeno helLthaaralla, “HaaLoorige ulidavane,” etc.
12 May 2008 at 12:20 pm
Raja Yoga sir. Avara jataka dalli raja yoga idhe.
16 May 2008 at 4:11 am
Raajadharma elli?