Dear Prime Minister, Now Do You Believe That No Man Is an Island?
Narendra Modi has burnt every bridge, antagonised every peer and decapacitated every institution which could have helped him cross the troubled waters he now has to negotiate.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: PTI
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If Bal Narendra had spent some more time in school instead of rushing off to sell tea at a railway station which did not even exist at that time, he would have imbibed some wisdom from a couple of old adages: ‘Don’t burn your bridges behind you because you may need them again tomorrow’ and ‘Be courteous to the people you cross on your way up because you will meet them again on your way down’. These would have stood him in good stead in this hour of his biggest political crisis, when he and the country face a complete meltdown. For he has burnt every bridge, antagonised every peer and decapacitated every institution which could have helped him cross the troubled waters he n
It is said that one must always pursue one's passion. Mine is to watch cookery videos on YouTube. That is exactly what I was doing one lazy afternoon last month when I chanced upon a video from one of my favourite YouTube channels, called "Village Cooking Channel". Usually, it shows a team of men from rural Tamil Nadu cooking up mountains of food. This one showed them making something they called mushroom biryani. I would normally have boycotted such biryani-heresy but I stayed on for the surprise guest the thumbnail advertised - Rahul Gandhi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi once ruled all political optics. He could do nothing wrong, which is why he could turn into a Bal Narendra who slew crocodiles, or become an exam warrior who sought to empower Indian students to face Boards and other examinations where the pressure to do well has made many children suicidal. Then, he was the Hindu Hriday Samrat, the fakir, the
chaiwalla, the brother of all Muslim women sick of triple talaq, and so on and so forth. But all of a sudden, the farmer stir has given birth to a new crop of pop culture content that isn’t so kind to Modi.