A picture tells a thousand words; in this case it encapsulates the hopes of a billion.
The sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Mohanrao Bhagwat, delivers his thundering addres to a near-empty audience in Delhi on Thursday. A photograph that must be framed and hung at the personal library of Arun Shourie, who only recently wanted the the RSS to take over the BJP.
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S. Prasannarajan in India Today:
“Still trapped in the wreckage of two general election defeats, they [the BJP] seem to have no idea about the aspirations and attitudes of 21st century India. They have lost the culture war as well as the economic war—the two wars the Right has been fighting in most democracies. It invariably loses the culture war and wins the economy.
“The BJP still lives in a distant yesterday which is part mythology, part history, part nostalgia, and party fantasy. It doesn’t have the audacity to be truly “right” in the marketplace. And it doesn’t have the imagination to be creative in the social arana either.”
Photograph: courtesy The Indian Express
Also read: ‘Brand’ blow to Bhagwat
Tags: Arun Shourie, Churumuri, H1N1, India Today, Mohan Bhagwat, Narendra Modi, rediff.com, S. Prasannarajan, sangh parivar, Sans Serif, Swine Flu
30 October 2009 at 1:19 pm
Nice to see the support base is headed in the appropriate direction and away from the BJP and RSS.
I just hope and prey that “Dimple Cream” Gandhi faces the same reception or am I hoping for too much of good news?
30 October 2009 at 1:55 pm
so now churumuri can stop talking about rss and trashing hindus. i will give away 2 months salary if churumuri can keep away from said subjects for 2 months.
challenge ah?
30 October 2009 at 2:14 pm
@Anand Bala
Before you criticize learn to spell properly first or else you will be the “prey”.
30 October 2009 at 2:32 pm
Hey, Churumuri distribute sweets. I don’t think so Indian media will rest until they finish BJP and RSS. Why are you after them?
30 October 2009 at 3:51 pm
Nice picture!
But the Bigots in Churmuri would do better if they carry an article on the below news item as well.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091017/jsp/frontpage/story_11626260.jsp
The blog would do better if rather than keeping gloating inside a sectarian ghetto, can give a diversity of news and views.
But unfortunately ‘prejudiced mindsets’ can’t think beyond hate.
30 October 2009 at 4:36 pm
Let me guess what is next…
News that Narendra Modi has tested positive for swine flu…can we expect my favourite blog to share that info with a tacky headline..say, something like ” Pig catches the swine flu “.
On the photo: Isn’t is possible that the photo was perhaps taken much before the meeting had commenced ? Just curious…
30 October 2009 at 5:53 pm
@Andy:
Mr. Bhagwat is actually speaking as seen on the big screen.
30 October 2009 at 6:11 pm
How about this? RSS does not have money the way Congress has, to manage the crowds the way Congress does for Rahul baba and is mother’s meetings….
30 October 2009 at 7:06 pm
This is worst of churumuri.. they are clubbing pictures taken before bhagavat arrived and his speach.. when does this stop.. I have seen a public meeting attended by 3000 people of sonia gandhi in north karnataka where audience capacity was 50,000 did this ever came in media?????
30 October 2009 at 7:32 pm
Yakri hotte uristira papa ? Jana papa yenella conspiracy theories huduko hange madtididara.
30 October 2009 at 7:53 pm
This made my day. Thank You. :)
30 October 2009 at 9:38 pm
@Andy
See the photo in the article.
This is the price the Sangh and BJP are paying for hubris and stupidity of the last five years, not to mention Advani’s ego and silliness. They can continue to deny, but they are unravelling faster than Draupadi’s sari at Dushasana’s hands and there is no Krishna either.
Unfortunately for the liberal sections of the media, the problem does not go away because of the BJP’s imminent death. The problem is that the resentment, the hate, the bigotry that brought initial success to the BJP are still present in India at various levels. It is probably on the wane because of good economic conditions.
A few more years of imbalanced growth, maybe a bad recession (an actual recession and not just a slow down in growth) a few terrorist attacks ala 26/11, and a leader with strong administrative skills at the national level could bring back the politics of hate. Only this time, it will be far to the right of the BJP and less committed to democratic principles.
All I am saying is that the BJP will be replaced, not by something better, but by something or someone infinitely worse.
30 October 2009 at 9:55 pm
No, the photo was taken at the start, later there was a reasonable crowd.
Basavraj,
Check the election result, nobody is after/before them anymore
30 October 2009 at 10:39 pm
@Andy,
I agree with you. The two guys occupying the chairs were testing the Mike as they do during Ganesh Habba “Mike testing Hello, Hello , Hello ……”.
30 October 2009 at 10:40 pm
Basavaraj: BJP & RSS don’t seem to need any help in their terminal decline!
They were once very attractive to young of this country, it is sad their vote base has shifted towards old now!
They badly need young blood, but the oldies won’t let it be!
31 October 2009 at 1:00 am
@KC
Before you criticise, learn to punctuate properly.
31 October 2009 at 1:07 am
This is usually how clueless liberals operate. Their obession with RSS has no limits. They want to see RSS killed and extinct. The sad part is….they have conviniently forgotten how ‘Journalism’ is not welcome under Shariya!!
31 October 2009 at 11:02 am
Andy,
” On the photo: Isn’t is possible that the photo was perhaps taken much before the meeting had commenced ? Just curious… ”
Not only possible but highly probable given Churumuri’s idealogy. Remember, how churumuri smartly manipulated (not morphed, mind you) the double photos of Madame Her Highness Sonia Gandhi drinking water from a glass and Sudha Murthy drinking straight from a mineral water bottle to imply the “simplicity” and “austerity” of Madam ??
31 October 2009 at 11:03 am
This could not be true and is too early to comment, because now a days media is showing their oversmartness to capture and exist in the competitive market forgetting or keeping aside many many moral principles which our elders taught us.
31 October 2009 at 12:50 pm
A good one! The crowds were not available for hiring that day, perhaps?
31 October 2009 at 1:47 pm
i wonder if any of the people who comment agianst the RSS have actually ever attended the RSS shakhas.
31 October 2009 at 7:50 pm
Arun–
What’s wrong with KC’s punctuation?
1 November 2009 at 4:09 am
why is the video screen facing away from the audience??..shudnt it be facing the audience???something fishy here..
besides,video screens are placed far behind for people who cant see the stage…so its possible the empty seats were only those way behind…suggests a sizeable audience in front else a vdo screen wudnt be needed in the first place…
1 November 2009 at 9:26 pm
Churumuri has made it seem more hopeful than it really is. Read the full article. There were about half of the seats occupied.
Prajwal – I have attended a week long full time RSS camp and have sung namaste sada vatsale quite a few times. I am aware of they are up to, their ideology and capabilities. Any questions?
2 November 2009 at 12:25 pm
Curios/Phalli – couldnt stay away from churumuri for more than 2 months aa? Need new new pseudonyms and pseudostyle to come back and defend your dear RSS? Why this jackassery?
3 November 2009 at 5:16 pm
This is because RSS has no money to get people in lorries as Congress and pay 50Rs per head plus 2 meals.
15 May 2012 at 8:46 am
RSS IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION.( THIS IS LATE INDIRAGANDHI’S STATEMENT) & IT HAS NO NECESSITY OF GETTING THE HIRED PEOPLE FOR THEIR PROGRAMS. I FEEL PROUD TO BE A SWAYAMSEVAK