The Sphinx and the Hyenas
Remember how exasperated and irritated we felt when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh kept mum throughout several of the worst happenings under his watch, and how we pilloried his government for not speaking up firmly and sensibly when the news of that horrific December gang rape case broke.
Well, now 1, Race Course Road has a new tenant, and the present Prime Minister constantly communicates and speaks his mind, he's visible, 'decisive', and outspoken, tweeting at the drop of a Gujarati turban.
But what's puzzling is his Sphinx like demeanour on issues like the murder of the Pune Techie, the locking up of harmless chaps who post criticism of him on facebook,..... and worse .... where's the Modi Byte on the epidemic of rapes that seems to have broken out over Eastern and central India?
It's a riddle indeed...
This go-getter, this much advertised mover and shaker, this curious mixture of man and lion( at least to his followers) ... do his eyes suddenly turn to stone, do his ears become wads of wax when the hyenas of patriarchy and prejudice have begun to attack the fabric of modern India?
Who's the intrepid news man or woman who will seek answers from the creature overlooking the Indian scene?
But beware of the Sphinx.... Sphinxes have this nasty habit of tearing you apart if they don't like the answers ...or in this case... the questions!
And if he doesn't dismember you , it's more than probable that the pack of hyenas who follow in his wake will.
Well, now 1, Race Course Road has a new tenant, and the present Prime Minister constantly communicates and speaks his mind, he's visible, 'decisive', and outspoken, tweeting at the drop of a Gujarati turban.
But what's puzzling is his Sphinx like demeanour on issues like the murder of the Pune Techie, the locking up of harmless chaps who post criticism of him on facebook,..... and worse .... where's the Modi Byte on the epidemic of rapes that seems to have broken out over Eastern and central India?
It's a riddle indeed...
This go-getter, this much advertised mover and shaker, this curious mixture of man and lion( at least to his followers) ... do his eyes suddenly turn to stone, do his ears become wads of wax when the hyenas of patriarchy and prejudice have begun to attack the fabric of modern India?
Who's the intrepid news man or woman who will seek answers from the creature overlooking the Indian scene?
But beware of the Sphinx.... Sphinxes have this nasty habit of tearing you apart if they don't like the answers ...or in this case... the questions!
And if he doesn't dismember you , it's more than probable that the pack of hyenas who follow in his wake will.
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