Now here’s Mr. Narendra Modi who raked my interest back into the page one. How can one shun the grandeur fast that he is undertaking from today onwards and that is so splendidly hyped by the media scribes? I simply couldn’t. Annaji must have been traumatized for the reason Modi is fasting. A fast for Communal harmony? That too on his birthday? What the heck?
I flipped through the pages of the newspaper and found Dr. Sarfaraz Baig’s “quick fix” that prescribes a 15 day diet process that would help you elude the taxing exercises to get your body in shape by the festive week. Under “the safest and easiest process” was the “Crash diet along with no exercises”. Was there any connection of this page 14 with that of page 1 news? Was it deliberate on the part of Times? Is the hefty man in the first page so very desperate to be reshaped before the pujas, (besides participating in the gimmick for the PM candidature)? I kept wondering!
Still a counter fast was very much missing on the Congress’s part that is blemished again and again by the incessant smacks of the CAG report. Now there he is… Mr. Baghela, right in front of the Gandhi Ashram (the trailblazer to the FASTer way), on the road (in stark contrast with the Modi’s abundance), who has already started a fast one hour before Modi. Yes, at an hour advantage! No, it’s not a level playing field. One is advertised much to the other. One is for brotherhood, the other is………………………….
well, not yet sure. But surely, not against corruption, not for harmony. It might be as Baghela said, Against Modi.
Nonetheless, it is cool. With the vegetable prices soaring sky high we might resort to this method and that too for an added advantage of reduction in the number of flabby abs! Festive or Fasting Season, huh?
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