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Letters to Editor
Dear Editor,
When Lal Kishen Advani launched his bus yatra, BJP was hoping to bring
the people of India towards Rama and win the election. But the bus yatra
took a detour and ended up from Rama to Roma. A Roman Catholic woman,
Sonia Maino Gandhi, of modest background won the election instead. How
could the bus yatra have misfired so badly for the BJP? Earlier when
former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee went on a bus yatra to Lahore it's tires
were deflated by Shareef Badmash Musharraf and it ended in Kargil. From
Rama to Roma requires only one change of alphabet, replacing a with o
and the exact number of alphabets between a and o is of course thirteen.
So how come the BJP and it's famous astrologers failed to see the
significance of thirteen? Interestingly BJP wanted hocus pocus Astrology
to be taught more in Universites in this age.
What the holy Roman Empire under the various Caesars' could not achieve,
the conquest and rule over India, a small time Italian woman has
achieved. All without any use of force, but with genuine love of
Indians, fairly in an election. There are lessons for all people of the
world and specially for Americans and their British allies. In 1947,
when the British were driven out of India the British administrators had
remarked to their Indian subordinates that in "fifty years we will be
back to run this country, you Indians will not be able to run it".
Perhaps it can be excused as an emotional outburst by the British upon
having to give up 200 years rule in India. But they were neither
completely wrong. It is after 57 years that a European born and raised
Italian woman is going to run India for the next foreseeable future,
followed by her children.
If this is not "tryst of destiny" then what is? BJP's President Venky
Naidu commenting after the defeat could only say that Sonia Gandhi's
victory was like a "ladoo". He certainly will need many more "ladoos" to
cope up with the coming depression amongst his party men and "Jhunjunwalas"
once the leftists begin to change the management of the country's
business reforms. For the BJP, the "feel good, feel good" has turned to
"feel bad, very bad". In fact it went from the dizzy heights of
corporate call of "India shining" to getting kicked out by the shoe
shining electorate.
H. Kalsi
New Jersey, USA
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