On Sanjeev Sabhlok armchair statesman

On Sanjeev Sabhlok armchair statesman

I find nothing admirable or worthy in these armchair statesmen remotely denouncing Ramdev on specious and questionable grounds, decontextualizing a few details of his head-on confrontation with the Congi fascists, such as trying to avoid capture, wearing women's clothes etc., and criticizing the man for not living up to THEIR standards of leadership, standards which they themselves seem quite incapable of putting into practice in the world of bricks and mortar, muck and mire. I'm not saying Ramdev is perfect, but I'd take him any day over these clueless online Maharathis who would rather launch missiles at the good guys rather than uniting against the common foe who has today shown to what extent she is willing to go in brutalizing the native sons of India's soil.

Such senseless finger-pointing seems to be in line with most other egocentric claptrap that is standard fare from India's self-preening neo-Angrez elites. To them Baba Ramdev is a throwback and an anachronism and India itself a rudderless ship that needs to catch up with America by becoming some sort of caricature of the U.S.A. Intellectually fattened on a steady diet of American pseudo-psycholigists and pop-philosophers like Ayn Rand and Stephen Covey, these worthies live in their own manufactured reality in which they are the "leaders" and "netas" the blighted country has been waiting for. The web has given their ambitions a safe outlet to FEEL like the great souls that they are convinced they are within… if only the world would pay them the attention they deserve.

I wish them all the best but will not stand and watch them casting rotten tomatoes from the stands at the real players in this difficult and dangerous arena.