Hitting you with Hitler is the desperate secularist's last resort. And we know that Nitish Kumar, secularist extraordinaire, is desperate . Very desperate.
So, in the Nitish country, Adolf Modi may have survived the bomb but he can't escape the secular salvo from the paramount leader of Pataliputra.
There's a problem though. Whenever your next door secularist deploys words such as Hitler and fascism, the victim invariably is history.
When you call a decisive leader a Hitler or fascist , a communal clash round the corner another Auschwitz, you are belittling the original horror; you are reducing history to the size of your mind. Don't we know that the size of our provincial secularist's mind is shrinking faster than his constituency?
So, in the Nitish country, Adolf Modi may have survived the bomb but he can't escape the secular salvo from the paramount leader of Pataliputra.
There's a problem though. Whenever your next door secularist deploys words such as Hitler and fascism, the victim invariably is history.
When you call a decisive leader a Hitler or fascist , a communal clash round the corner another Auschwitz, you are belittling the original horror; you are reducing history to the size of your mind. Don't we know that the size of our provincial secularist's mind is shrinking faster than his constituency?
It is the intellectually lazy rhetorician's easy jibe, this loose usage of words resonant with history. The jibe is an insult to the millions who boarded those cattle trains to the last stations of dehumanisation in history. Their tragedy should not be trivialised by idiotic comparisons.
Nitish Kumar is only left with words; the ground beneath his feet is slipping, perhaps life-threateningly after the BJP-JD(U) separation in Bihar. It was quite preposterous of the secularist to demand that he should have a veto power in the selection of BJP's prime ministerial candidate.
Well, when he was a Cabinet minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, his secular conscience did not burn as Gujarat burned. He did not resign. He did not ask Modi to resign.
Today, he has a better reason to resign as the patron saint of the badlands. What Lalu Prasad and family had achieved in fifteen years-turning Bihar into India's worst governed state-Nitish achieved in less than ten years. Lohia's children killed Bihar.
Nitish has again put his conscience in deep freeze. He is positioning himself to sell his secularism to the highest bidder in 2014. How can he afford to tolerate the sight of India buying the Modi vision? So he desperately needs the fantasy of himself as a secular fighter in Weimar India.
What we hear from Nitish Kumar is the sales pitch of political harlotry. India is not seduced..
What we hear from Nitish Kumar is the sales pitch of political harlotry. India is not seduced..
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