How India Unfolded in circa 2016: A lighter take
- In Current Affairs
- 11:56 PM, Dec 31, 2016
- Parag Amalnerkar
- While the PM promoted “Beti bachao Beti padhao” to save the girl child, the Congress continued its primary campaign of “Beta badhao, Desh dubao”
- While Men continued to fool themselves about world still being male dominated, PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik quietly deflated the male swagger by doing us proud at the Olympics
- While we always believed that students join Universities to educate themselves, JNU confused us with the notion that primary job of Universities is fake activism.
- While Rahul Gandhi accused Modi of dividing India post demonetization, he meant Modi divided the country into “Black” & “White”. Those with Black Money are still screaming!
- While India punished Aamir Khan for his comments on leaving the country, same people rewarded him by letting Dangal cross INR 150 Crore and still counting (reward for promoting the girl child)
- While we kept wondering how Kejriwal blabbers every day, the doctors in Bangalore did a surgical strike on his tongue
- While Bangaloreans steeled themselves every day to brave the traffic, Sleepy CM of Karnataka thought men of steel are those who build Steel bridges at the cost of trees
- Just as Chennai and India recovered from the damaging floods, Rahul Gandhi threatened us with an earthquake in the parliament. He realized later that he can’t have the quake & eat it too!
- While the legendary warrior King, Shivaji finally got his due with the Shiv Smarak coming up in the seas off Mumbai, Mayawati couldn’t stop laughing at such silliness because she already has her own statues that she built herself.
- While Delhi continues to reel under pollution, Ministers getting jailed, crimes against women continue unabated. Now Kejriwal has promised good governance in Punjab, Goa and Mars!
- While Rahul Gandhi and his motley team kept lamenting about poverty (created when Congress was in power), Modi & team unleashed MUDRA, Start Up India & Stand Up India to enable millions break the leash and provide wings to their dreams
- While some continued to be questionably civil to the Family despite the damage they have caused to the country, Subramanian Swamy continued to display courage and knowledge to nail them in the National Herald case
- While Opposition disparaged this regime for being weak against Pakistan, India changed gears by decimating terror camps across the border and shaking up all those pontificating on this side of the border
- While again the opposition kept riling Modi on inaction on Black Money, Modi divided the country into “Black” & “White” in onel swoop on November 8th 2016 via demonetization
- While we always wondered, it must be lonely at the top of the “Clown” world for Rahul Gandhi, Demonetization gave him an entertaining companion in the form of a sister (read Didi of Bengal)
- While Indian boys and men refused to learn that women are not objects to be bulldozed over, PINK shamed these very men and lent voice to all these women across the nation
- While we all thought that the departure of Tendulkar would leave a permanent void, Virat Kohli steadily filled up his shoes with promise for more every year
- While paid media and liberals continued to reel & not learn from the victories of Modi, Shinzo Abe, Brexit and losses of Angela Merkel- the United States voted in Trump! The common thread being the rise of Nationalism and the majority tired of being taken for granted.
- While we all suffered for years from the one-sided trolling that Barkha Dutt & Rajdeep Sardesai unleashed from their one-way TV platforms, we had them pushing for regulating trolls (read those who are giving it back to them) on Social media. Thank you, Jack Dorsey, for making public discourse a two- way street.
- While we had Rajdeep chide Arnab for being soft on Modi, he went on to ask a very tough question to Sonia Gandhi in his interview on India Today- Did Sonia assist Indira in the kitchen?
- While we had the fountain head of Knowledge and arrogance P Chidambaram ridicule Modi by saying that his knowledge of economy is the size of a postage stamp, Modi & team made sure that Congress is reduced to the size of a postage stamp on the Indian map with losses everywhere!
- While we had Lutyens lampooning Modi for his discomfort with English, Modi addressed the United States Congress with wit & aplomb in English and won many hearts
- While we had Make in India unleashed across sectors, Augusta Westland crash landed on 10 Janpath
- While we had, people congratulating Saifeena on their baby boy, we caught Kareena desperately googling this- who the hell is Taimur that everybody knows?
- While women across the country still struggle to find courage to stand up for their rights, we had a woman in Kanpur call off her wedding as the groom did not have a toilet ready in time for the wedding. Salute!
- While Didi had Mahapatra arrested for cartoons mocking her earlier, Derek O’ Brien continued to roam scot free despite circulating a morphed picture of Karat being offered sweets by Rajnath Singh
- While all these years we had the Tata, group regarded as a beacon of ethics in the corporate world, we had Ratan Tata remove Cyrus Mistry spiraling a cycle of dirty linen being washed in public everyday
- While we all outgrew our juvenile antics during our college days, the Indian National Congress seems to have turned juvenile officially by using terms like PayTM stands for Pay to Modi.
- While Jayalalitha made Genuflection a state asana, even making it look legit, her mysterious death is having many rise and question the mystery surrounding her death
- While the Supreme Court and the CJI continue to lament on the backlog of cases and the shortage of Judges, the same court is examining a petition if images on condoms violate obscenity laws.
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