{"id":230,"date":"2006-05-05T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2006\/05\/can-she-eat-sattu-like-us.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:40:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:40:42","slug":"can-she-eat-sattu-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2006\/05\/can-she-eat-sattu-like-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Can she eat sattu like us ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having easy access to desi channels here adds to one\u2019s entertainment in many ways. Besides the obvious doses of Hindi film and songs etc., one also gets the chance to view Indian politicians make unabashed fools of themselves on international television. This morning, on NDTV, I watched with disgust Amar Singh\u2019s diatribe against Sonia Gandhi\u2019s accent, her manner of speaking Hindi, and her inability to eat sattu<\/a>. Amar Singh campaigning in Rae Bareli, was in his element mimicking Ms. Gandhi\u2019s accent and manner, and apparently really enjoying himself. And he played to the gallery it seems, because I could hear laughter. People found it amusing that Mr Singh has mimicry skills , coupled with the ability to make cheap shots \u2013 apparently requirements to be an Indian politician. Now Amar Singh is ODIOUS, and I\u2019m no big fan of Ms. Gandhi either, but such crass displays are nauseating, sickening and leave me floating de-spiritedly on strong waves of revulsion. Amar Singh, his face contorted to mimic Sonia\u2019s manner, voice raised in high falsetto \u2013 this is the face of Indian politics ?<\/p>\n

Now Amar Singh is not way up there on the IQ quotient scale, but stooping to this level is ridiculous. And the horrible quandary is that I\u2019m not sure whether to laugh at this dumb man, as I watch his childish antics in disbelief, or cry at the specimen of politicians this dense person represents. One part of me tells me not to be so na\u00efve, after watching politicians take money on camera, I still believe that they should debate one another on intelligent, mattering-to-the public issues, like poverty and education, that they should employ the sparse gray cells they possess to think of the well-being of the nation and it\u2019s people ? After watching an affronted Singh huffing and puffing his way out of the Zee awards<\/a>, because his friend the GREAT AMITABH (after all he is the Big B, let\u2019s all come lie at his feet, for here lies salvation) was not accorded a seat to go with his presumed status, I naively believe that Singh has an iota of common sense in his entire body ? And what\u2019s wrong with Bachhan & Co. ? Why do they associate with bottom-of-the-political-barrel scum ?<\/p>\n

All this while, Sonia\u2019s been in politics, all Singh can come up with is \u201ccan she eat sattu like us ?\u201d ??? Clarification Mr. Singh : the constitution does not require you to be a sattu eater to qualify to contest elections, and extensive research<\/a> has proved that sattu eaters perform just as dismally in Indian politics as non-sattu eaters. And this is hot off the wires, Mr. Amar Odious Singh, and no doubt will come as a crushing blow to your sattu-devoted self, non-sattu eaters can even, GASP ! HAI ! HAI ! DOUBLE GASP ! aspire to become , OH MY GOD ! the PRIME MINISTER !!!<\/p>\n

I do think that the CEC must come up with standards of moral decorum to be preserved when castigating one\u2019s opponent in the public\/political arena. No, it\u2019s not that I am worried about Ms. my-dynasty-shall-rule Gandhi\u2019s psyche upon hearing the sattu diatribe; politicians have thick skins, she\u2019ll get over it. No, my concern rather is to give politicians something tangible and constructive to argue over, like ideologies and policies, something that might be marginally more useful than sattu-eating contests.<\/p>\n

After all, we can\u2019t let sattu sway matters, can we ?<\/p>\n

Categories : _india , _culture_and_society<\/p>\n

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