Verbal crackers this Diwali
13 November 2012, New Delhi, Sat Pal
Our leaders have become habitual to using spoken misquotes to snatch headlines
Keeping in view the surging pollution level, the city government has strongly encouraged people especially children not to use crackers during Diwali. The high level of pollution may result in physical as well as mental tensions and ailments apart from affecting our nature. The physical and mental tensions arise due to irritating pollutants present in the air. It can also make people angry and initiate verbal misquotes.
It seems like our leaders, up to some extent, have become habitual of using such verbal misquotes in order to snatch headlines and find place in the media. At times they use their tongue power to retract immediately on taking note of the sharp reactions. They have started using this tongue power leisurely during this festive season.
Diwali, the festival of lights, is traditionally celebrated with religious fervour to mark the return of Lord Rama after his 14 long years of vanvas.
Lord Rama has become the target of verbal attack by a leader having allegiance to a party known for boasting its connection with Lord Rama and its forgotten vow related to the construction of a palatial temple at the claimed birth place of Lord Rama at Ayodhaya. The name of the leader, who dared to contest the Lok sabha election against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Lucknow, begins with Ram. The leader in question, a veteran, Ram Jethmalani is bold enough to forcefully state his views strongly in the courts, Parliament and other places. His remarks on Lord Rama have attracted many comments by the political leaders and religious patriarchs. The leader described Lord Rama as a bad husband and raised apprehensions on his existence during that particular period, dating back to more than 5,000 years or so. The reactions poured in from both the major parties and religious heads.
BJP MP from Gorakhpur and a Congress spokesperson reacted on expected lines whereas a Hindu outfit, Hindu Dnyanpeeth Vidhan Parishad Ludhiana has announced a reward of Rs 11 lakh on bringing the chopped tongue of the leader in question.
Swami Gyananand Maharajin in Karnal has requested Jethmalani to remove the word Ram from his name. The head priest of Ram Lalla temple at Ayodhaya, Satyendra Das has described the leader as an insane person. Apart from this a faction of Shiv Sena in Delhi demonstrated against the so-called objectionable comment on Lord Rama.
Such verbal crackers are not going to serve any purpose. An overambitious new entrant in political venture and India Against Corruption (IAC) supremo, Arvind Kejriwal has claimed himself of being a Dengue mosquito. Further, he has warned the leaders of both the Congress and the BJP to get ready to be bitten by him. It seems that the new political personality has also decided to use verbal crackers to make this Diwali a festival of hatred. In backdrop of such uncalled remarks i.e. verbal crackers, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has termed Kejriwal as an American agent. One remembers the verbal crackers of yoga guruRam Dev. He has been making lavish use of his tongue off and on. There are a number of incidents to mention, all being the hot shots. Is this going to cultivate a decent culture?
Though the BJP president has regretted his remark of comparing Swami Vivekanand’s intelligence quotient level with Dawood Ibrahim, this is not going to be spared in the holocaust created by this remark. Every action of leaders is supposed to be under public scanner, hence, they must think patiently before speaking any word in public. In case they continue to make a rampant use of their tongue power, they are bound to face public ire as well as counter reactions.
The remark of the so called aspirant of the top executive post of the country, on a union minister’s wife and the then girl friend also drew attention of large number of people. Narendra Modi asking the general public, whether they have seen a girl friend worth Rs 50 crore, was not taken in good taste by most of the people. Modi in his state, going to the polls shortly, is being referred as a monkey.
The state that produced leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel, is probably pained to witness a dirty game of verbal crackers launched by both the major parties. It was the then deputy prime minister and the union home minister in Pandit Nehru’s cabinet, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who got to be known as an ‘iron man’.
As Modi is being introduced as an iron man, the opponent party has called him Lahu Purush, a man involved in blood bath, instead of Lauh Purush (iron man).
The verbal brickbats like these have become common these days. In an election bound state of Gujarat, it looks imminent that the exchange of words would become more pointed and fierce. The atmosphere is likely to become hot and it seems that the exchange of verbal crackdown is going to be unabated. Let us pray for a verbal cracker-less atmosphere in times to come.
Satpal is a communication consultant
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13 November 2012, New Delhi, Sat Pal
Our leaders have become habitual to using spoken misquotes to snatch headlines
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It seems like our leaders, up to some extent, have become habitual of using such verbal misquotes in order to snatch headlines and find place in the media. At times they use their tongue power to retract immediately on taking note of the sharp reactions. They have started using this tongue power leisurely during this festive season.
Diwali, the festival of lights, is traditionally celebrated with religious fervour to mark the return of Lord Rama after his 14 long years of vanvas.
Lord Rama has become the target of verbal attack by a leader having allegiance to a party known for boasting its connection with Lord Rama and its forgotten vow related to the construction of a palatial temple at the claimed birth place of Lord Rama at Ayodhaya. The name of the leader, who dared to contest the Lok sabha election against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Lucknow, begins with Ram. The leader in question, a veteran, Ram Jethmalani is bold enough to forcefully state his views strongly in the courts, Parliament and other places. His remarks on Lord Rama have attracted many comments by the political leaders and religious patriarchs. The leader described Lord Rama as a bad husband and raised apprehensions on his existence during that particular period, dating back to more than 5,000 years or so. The reactions poured in from both the major parties and religious heads.
BJP MP from Gorakhpur and a Congress spokesperson reacted on expected lines whereas a Hindu outfit, Hindu Dnyanpeeth Vidhan Parishad Ludhiana has announced a reward of Rs 11 lakh on bringing the chopped tongue of the leader in question.
Swami Gyananand Maharajin in Karnal has requested Jethmalani to remove the word Ram from his name. The head priest of Ram Lalla temple at Ayodhaya, Satyendra Das has described the leader as an insane person. Apart from this a faction of Shiv Sena in Delhi demonstrated against the so-called objectionable comment on Lord Rama.
Such verbal crackers are not going to serve any purpose. An overambitious new entrant in political venture and India Against Corruption (IAC) supremo, Arvind Kejriwal has claimed himself of being a Dengue mosquito. Further, he has warned the leaders of both the Congress and the BJP to get ready to be bitten by him. It seems that the new political personality has also decided to use verbal crackers to make this Diwali a festival of hatred. In backdrop of such uncalled remarks i.e. verbal crackers, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has termed Kejriwal as an American agent. One remembers the verbal crackers of yoga guruRam Dev. He has been making lavish use of his tongue off and on. There are a number of incidents to mention, all being the hot shots. Is this going to cultivate a decent culture?
Though the BJP president has regretted his remark of comparing Swami Vivekanand’s intelligence quotient level with Dawood Ibrahim, this is not going to be spared in the holocaust created by this remark. Every action of leaders is supposed to be under public scanner, hence, they must think patiently before speaking any word in public. In case they continue to make a rampant use of their tongue power, they are bound to face public ire as well as counter reactions.
The remark of the so called aspirant of the top executive post of the country, on a union minister’s wife and the then girl friend also drew attention of large number of people. Narendra Modi asking the general public, whether they have seen a girl friend worth Rs 50 crore, was not taken in good taste by most of the people. Modi in his state, going to the polls shortly, is being referred as a monkey.
The state that produced leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel, is probably pained to witness a dirty game of verbal crackers launched by both the major parties. It was the then deputy prime minister and the union home minister in Pandit Nehru’s cabinet, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who got to be known as an ‘iron man’.
As Modi is being introduced as an iron man, the opponent party has called him Lahu Purush, a man involved in blood bath, instead of Lauh Purush (iron man).
The verbal brickbats like these have become common these days. In an election bound state of Gujarat, it looks imminent that the exchange of words would become more pointed and fierce. The atmosphere is likely to become hot and it seems that the exchange of verbal crackdown is going to be unabated. Let us pray for a verbal cracker-less atmosphere in times to come.
Satpal is a communication consultant
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