OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: “Vaidik Vajpayee’s hidden face” (DV July 1, 2002 p.14) would have remained hidden if only India’s upper caste rulers had not shamelessly displayed their cockroach mentality.
President Clinton faced the worst scandal of his life when the zionist lobby propped up a Monica Lewinsky to force his surrender. But Clinton maintained a stoic silence.
Man biting dog: Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas. How can the wily vaidik in him allow Vajpayee to rise above a small mind?
It is true that the Time magazine put out a story on Vajpayee’s drinking habits and other weaknesses. People occupying high public offices should be always ready to face media criticism. They have to live with such professional hazards. Just because a dog bites you, you don’t bite back. Vajpayee descended to such a lowest depth that he not only barked back but started biting the dog.
But the Time is no ordinary dog. It is not only the world’s largest circulated journal but owned by the mighty Americans of whom the vaidiks are the tail.
Apology: The Time story would have gone unnoticed but for the noise raised by the rulers. They even bluffed that the Time had apologised but the brave Alex Perry, its Delhi correspondent and author of the story, maintained that “the Time emphatically stand by. the story and there was no apology”. (PTI-Hindu June 28, 2002)
What a shame? But cockroaches suffer from no shame.
The elavation of the Sindhi Khatri, L.K. Advani, as Dy. Prime Minister signals the beginning of the end of Vaidik Vajpayee era. The appointment of two film actors as cabinet ministers shows the stuff in Vajpayee brain.
Meanwhile we are receiving inquiries from all parts of India for the photocopies of the Time story. Write to DV office with Rs. 10 stamp.
Earlier, we had put out another story: “Two documents on Vajpayee’s false claims” (DV Aug. 1, 2001 p.17), one from the Frontline (Feb.20, 1998 and the other Indian Express March 7, 1999), Photocopies of these two will cost Rs. 80.
