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...A. G. Noorani in Dawn, DC Edit Page, Sunday 1 June 2014...
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Well, Noorani Saheb, it is very like a lawyer of your eminence to quote Churchill when convenient...like it is said that anyone may quote the scriptures.
Churchill said many dumb things which he had to eat at his leisure later on. He was no friend of India nor, for that matter, Pakistan where your legal wisdom appears in regular print and is welcomed with resounding hurrays.
Churchill said India would get freedom from his empire on his dead body but he lived to see Free India while on this very earth.
He also pooh-poohed Gandhi as a half-naked fakir who was good for nothing but he outlived Gandhi and his Free India:
Noorani Saheb! Churchill also said, like many others, that India is unfit for democracy...do you agree?
You did well to dig up his 1931 quote. Much water has flown since then even in his own Britain. He himself led a coalition government, albeit a war one. And he didn't live, alas, to see a coalition government doing well in his home country right now (for all of 4 years and going strong).
Most every West European states have been having coalition governments after Churchill died of heart break...his own party lost the elections after he won the war for them. And his successor, Atlee, granted India its overdue freedom not out of his largesse and benevolence but because he didn't have the money and means to subjugate it.
History has many lessons if only you want to learn.
All those western coalition governments had to coalesce with strange bedfellows since they didn't get an absolute majority on their own, forget their vote share,...while Modijee has an absolute majority on his own but still he sticks to coalition dharma...he gave a cabinet post for one belonging, for the moment, to Telugu Desam whose boss had quit BJP on moral grounds in the famous year 2002 but found it convenient to forget and forgive when the chips for him appeared to be down.
And Churchill, for your information Noorani Saheb, was not even a graduate...chee chee cheee...
The problem with intellectuals is that they have no grace to accept defeat. Even when they are down and out and pinned to the ground on their backs they say their mustaches never touched soil.
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"No government which is in a large minority in the country, even though it possesses a working majority in the House of Commons, can have the necessary power to cope with real problems." Winston Churchill's wise words, in the House of Commons on June 2, 1931, apply very much to the government formed by Narendra Modi on May 26, 2014.
The 282 seats which the Bharatiya Janata Party won in the Lok Sabha of 543 members cannot obscure the fact that its vote share of 31%, of the total votes cast, is the very lowest in the 62-year history of the House...
...A. G. Noorani in Dawn, DC Edit Page, Sunday 1 June 2014...
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A. G. Noorani, (born 16 September 1930) is an Indian lawyer, historian and author. He has practised as an advocate in the Supreme Court of India and in the Bombay High Court
The Churchill war ministry was a Conservative-led coalition government in the United Kingdom, which lasted for most of World War II. It was led by Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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and an election was called. The war ministry was followed by the Churchill caretaker ministry which in turn lasted until 26 July 1945 when the results of the general election brought Labour into government, led by Clement Attlee.
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Well, Noorani Saheb, it is very like a lawyer of your eminence to quote Churchill when convenient...like it is said that anyone may quote the scriptures.
Churchill said many dumb things which he had to eat at his leisure later on. He was no friend of India nor, for that matter, Pakistan where your legal wisdom appears in regular print and is welcomed with resounding hurrays.
Churchill said India would get freedom from his empire on his dead body but he lived to see Free India while on this very earth.
He also pooh-poohed Gandhi as a half-naked fakir who was good for nothing but he outlived Gandhi and his Free India:
"GANDHI: If I had been still alive at the time of your death, Sir
Winston, I should have found it difficult to say very much that was
favourable in your behalf. I hope you will at least appreciate the
frankness of this confession.
CHURCHILL: Not only its frankness, Mr. Gandhi, but its justice. After all, I had no kind words to offer in your behalf upon your death.
GANDHI: Nor indeed during my life. I fear I never struck you as being much better than, as you put it, "a half-naked fakir."
CHURCHILL: That, sir, is a misquotation. What I really said was rather more severe. I called you a "seditious fakir."
GANDHI: Well, I do not take it unkindly that you should have called me either "half-naked" or "seditious." For, indeed, both were true of me: I was a revolutionary in a loincloth and am not insulted to have you say so. But that you should call me a "fakir"-a monk. I know what insult you intended by this. You intended to deny me the honour of sharing your own calling - that of a statesman."
CHURCHILL: Not only its frankness, Mr. Gandhi, but its justice. After all, I had no kind words to offer in your behalf upon your death.
GANDHI: Nor indeed during my life. I fear I never struck you as being much better than, as you put it, "a half-naked fakir."
CHURCHILL: That, sir, is a misquotation. What I really said was rather more severe. I called you a "seditious fakir."
GANDHI: Well, I do not take it unkindly that you should have called me either "half-naked" or "seditious." For, indeed, both were true of me: I was a revolutionary in a loincloth and am not insulted to have you say so. But that you should call me a "fakir"-a monk. I know what insult you intended by this. You intended to deny me the honour of sharing your own calling - that of a statesman."
You did well to dig up his 1931 quote. Much water has flown since then even in his own Britain. He himself led a coalition government, albeit a war one. And he didn't live, alas, to see a coalition government doing well in his home country right now (for all of 4 years and going strong).
Most every West European states have been having coalition governments after Churchill died of heart break...his own party lost the elections after he won the war for them. And his successor, Atlee, granted India its overdue freedom not out of his largesse and benevolence but because he didn't have the money and means to subjugate it.
History has many lessons if only you want to learn.
All those western coalition governments had to coalesce with strange bedfellows since they didn't get an absolute majority on their own, forget their vote share,...while Modijee has an absolute majority on his own but still he sticks to coalition dharma...he gave a cabinet post for one belonging, for the moment, to Telugu Desam whose boss had quit BJP on moral grounds in the famous year 2002 but found it convenient to forget and forgive when the chips for him appeared to be down.
And Churchill, for your information Noorani Saheb, was not even a graduate...chee chee cheee...
The problem with intellectuals is that they have no grace to accept defeat. Even when they are down and out and pinned to the ground on their backs they say their mustaches never touched soil.
In their belated wisdom they carp on that figure 31%. But yet, they will never agree to a presidential style of government (or even election) since it would expose them and wouldn't leave them even with the slip of an excuse.
When the BJP dared its own oldies and named Modijee as its PM candidate and challenged the Congress to follow suit and anoint its leader as its own PM candidate, they demurred, saying that in our great system PMs are elected post-election. For, they knew full well that Modijee would have won hands down by a 95% majority, which they can't stomach, naturally.
They smiled and snickered and gave Modijee no chance at all when he was named the PM candidate. As the long-drawn election battle progressed, they said he may win by a narrow margin but never get an absolute majority for his NDA, forsooth! And when their future became as dim as their wits, they fished out his marital status. And when they watched the Ganga crowd they conceded that NDA may be within reach of a shallow majority but it would be forced to take the support of Amma and Didi if not Lalujee.
And when at last the tickers on May 16 crowded them out, asking them to keep shut, they now come out with a lame excuse in that 31%.
For their information, the naturally occurring uranium has only 0.7% of the bomb material. All they did was to purify it so as to start a chain reaction.
In any case, they could have at least applauded the richly functioning democracy here where elections are largely ok and leaders change smoothly and peacefully and the military doesn't arm-twist its duly elected presidents and PMs unlike our neighbors who are so bewitched by their picky arguments that hide the exuberance of our democracy.
Instead of witching, they must come out with fruity suggestions to Modijee to lift this country out of its pall of gloom.
Like I do now...
...I strongly suggest that Modijee should at once, right now, before it is too late, double the measly pension of all those poor unemployed physics professors who retired from IIT KGP in August 2005 at a youthful age of 62...
Narendra Modi
on Sunday met BJP workers for the first time after becoming the prime
minister and thanked them for their efforts in helping the party win the
Lok Sabha election...The party workers were also told they will receive a bonus for the hard
work they put in during the polls, the senior BJP leader said.
...Posted by Ishani
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