An indelible image of the Modern Indian Communist Leader is the royal spectacle of “Comred” Prakash Karat and his lovely wife “Comrani” Brinda Karat at Mysore railway station a couple of years ago. Madame Karat had snugly settled into her pushback seat in the Bangalore-bound Shatabdi Express, and was already on her tiniest-of-tiny cellphone.
With just a few minutes to go before the train left the platform, the soon to be CPI(M) general secretary—soon to be “India’s Most Powerful Man“—stepped off the compartment. He was, of course, in a neat pair of Nike shoes. Prakashji returned in a few minutes with two bottles of Bisleri or Aquafina, but bottled water none the less.
A deluxe train, a sexy chifon, a slinky phone, sweatshop sneakers, and “mineral water”… As they say, the only Marxism that will survive forever is Groucho Marxism.
It’s an image that comes to mind reading the master wordsmith Sunanda K. Datta-Ray on the editorial pages of The Telegraph, Calcutta, producing a damning examples of Communist doublespeak as they strive to block the nuclear deal by jumping on the shoulders of the “common man”.
“Left Front members will go on posturing about the dangers of being drawn into America’s strategic embrace while its stellar characters play footsie with the US. I have mentioned before the Marxist mayor who approached the American consul-general to twin Calcutta with San Francisco so that he could officially visit his son who was studying there…
“Beyond that, the longer-term psychology of India’s complex about the US recalls William B. Saxbe, the US ambassador in the Seventies, saying, ‘When I call on cabinet ministers, the president, or governors, they all love to talk about their sons, sons-in-law and daughters in the US and how well they’re doing and how well they like things. The next day I read in the papers the very same people are denouncing the US as a totally different kind of country’.”
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Bonus questions:
1) Which couple, both communist party leaders, live in the unquestionably upmarket residence of a media mogul, whose company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange?
2) Which communist party leader’s spouse works for the BBC?
Members of the politburo dont live by the rules imposed on the masses.
Can you please put up photos of a young Brinda Karat in a sexy chifon? Thanks.
And I heard that Advaniji is not that big a ram bhakt (not a single frame of any of the 30 crore gods/goddesses in his residence I believe). And that Mr Vajpayee inspite of his vision of ‘Ram Rajya’ which presumably involves non-violence towards animals, has a weakness for the non-vegetation stuff. And a ‘swadeshi’ party worker happily packing off his son to the US for work…
Politicians…
Sickle and Red Flag a deadly combination. The Red colour itself says that irit is dangerous. The Communist philosophers should look at Russia and learn lessons. If they don”t learn it now they will pay a heavy penalty later. This is but a bitter truth.
Communists are at this for a long time. They enjoy the fruits of capitalism but denounce capitalism.
US ambassador’s quote is perfect.
BTW, what about our politicians who are for Kannada medium but send their children & grand children to English medium convent school? Isn’t that funny too?
On the lighter side…Why do these communists always look serious and angry?
Smitha
You know why…oh it is soooo hard being a comrade while the rest of us have it easy:)
Which couple, both communist party leaders, live in the unquestionably upmarket residence of a media mogul, whose company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange?
2) Which communist party leader’s spouse works for the BBC?
Im interested to know who?
This article is politically motivated.