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Chetan Bhagat preaches on Mayawati Mar 27 A confession first. Like all writers , amateurs or paid , pros or cons , bloggers or editors ; we are insanely jealous of Chetan Bhagat. It is disgusting that such a mediocrity who is so full of crap sells so much. So he will continue to be our favorite bashing boy for some time. In his latest “editorial” Chetan Bhagat expressed his disgust at obnoxious display of wealth by Mayawati. He was going on and on about how ostentatious display of wealth is well ummm – ostentatious. He cited Warren Buffett as a model of frugality for all the youth of the country to imitate. But why exactly is Mayawati flaunting her “wealth”, if that is what one think it is. We city bred , English speaking , coffee drinking , internet surfing , brand conscious , west imitating people love to scoff at the likes of Lalu , Rabri , Mayawati and other buffoonish polticians. They do silly things , we read editorials written on them on how silly they are. And we think that we are above all the sillyness going around in the country. But of course the politicians know better. What is an obnoxious display of wealth for Bhagat is a carefully crafted Machiavellian ploy for Mayawati and a sign of arrival of Dalit prosperity for the uneducated Dalit. It doesn’t matter how silly it is. It only matter how her voters perceive it. And her voters are not reading any editorials, not even the primitively simple ones written by Bhagat. And as long as they have the votes of those voters they control the strings of lives of those scoffing at them and reading profound and insightful editorials written by Chetan Bhagat. It may sound too simple and obvious but think about it a little. Politicians do things and all the journalists , thinkers , intellectuals gather round and say how disgusting it is. What has our democracy come to that such politicians are doing such things in such a great democracy ????. Well I would once again quote what a dead poet said about democracy – Is Raaz ka ek mard-e-firangi ne kiya hai faash, Harchand ki dana (intellectuals) ise khola(disclose) nahin karate, Zamhooriyat(Democracy) ek tarz-e-hukumat (way of ruling) hai jisme, Bandon ko gina(counted) karate hain, taula(weighed) nahin karate. - Amaresh ------------------------------------ ---- INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to [email protected], OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to [email protected] TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to [email protected] OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
