?Phantom rides again,? said Boss, as he idly flicked through TV news channels reporting on how the Barkha/Rajdeep combine emoting on behalf of the babalog lost in Gujarat. ?But Modi doesn?t wear his underwear outside,? opined I, as we tried the?yellow?dhokla and pink coloured?sweet masoor dal from Bengal?just added on the all-India thaali menu. ?Agreed, but he does wear a mask that makes him look unshaven and like the Chief Minister of Gujarat,? retorted boss, as he quickly cancelled the orders for imported red bell-pepper and macaroni salad intended as a side dish, and replaced it with khaandvi.
?That?s not a mask, that is Narendra Modi, and I am going to work in Mundra Port. The conditions are better there than in Delhi, and there seems to be no shame in sweeping the floor again and again, as the new Sardar Patel has shown. In fact, he has said that in Gujarat, we will sweep first, and eat later. Here in Delhi, your Congress says that they will eat first and sweeping is left to people like me forever. In the name of secularism, it is all forgiven.?That is all wrong,? declared the boy who?cleans?sanitation worker is what we call him now?all dressed up in a very smart designer outfit obviously gifted by some NRI-type customer. Proving once again that in a?democracy, it is the common man going about his work tirelessly who decides whether?the leaders?shall first eat or?sweep. Or weep. Or sleep. Fall in a heap. Or get lost in the deep. Without a peep. As you sow, thus shall you reap.
Stumped. A question on me slowly creeps. Who will?sweep the floor in Delhi now? Parliament adjourns so often with the current lot.?Floor is left as is, where is, usually strewn with papers thrown around. Headless Chicken has got into trouble before with the Big Round House, but it is now very difficult to find anybody who will work in Delhi, and nowhere is that reflected better?than at Raisina.
So why don?t our perception makers realise that one reason why Modi won is simply because he works??Media is show business, and show business like politics is projected as a dynasty business. But that is not bringing in the big bucks anymore, especially from the foreign hands who are increasingly brown and not white. So can we drop all the Hindutva stuff and just look at the stats, please?