Much has been made of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi‘s powers and prowess, real and perceived. His drumbeaters talk of his “tough”, “assertive”, “decisive” leadership; his “no-nonsense”, “zero-tolerance” “take no prisoners” approach. Etcetera. The man himself thumps his chhappan ki chaati (56-inch chest) while proclaiming his nationalism and thumbs his nose at those who belittle our nation.
Here’s a test case: What if Modi was the BCCI chief, not Sharad Pawar?
How would Modi have reacted to all that has happened at Sydney? How would he have dealt with the umpiring cock-ups, the perceived anti-India bias in the ruling of the ICC match referee Mike Procter, with the racism charge against Harbhajan Singh?
What would Shri Modi have done to protect the pride and prestige of Bharat varsh in this clash of cricket civilisations?
churumuri 
Churumuri,
Why are you so obsessed with Modi?!
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@Anonymous Coward,
Churumuri has a pact with other pseudo-secular & communist news organisations (like The Hindu, CNN-IBN etc) that there will be atleast 1 Modi post every ten posts. This is true.. I am not making this up. Also 1 out of every 5 posts have to be sourced from The Hindu.
Simply ignore maadi, read the other “unpaid” posts.
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@ anonymous coward: because it is nice to see the fireworks going off rather than being so smug and sure?
But is there anything wanting in the BCCI’s response that might require Modi’s intervention? Latest reports saying the “operations have been suspended”, which is probably a veiled threat to call off the tour. So Pawar has been as “strong” as Modi?
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Modi : What should I do to Brad Hogg who called our Kumble a b*** ?
Crowd: **ll him **ll him
Modi: Well tat’s what I too would like to do.
**= te which implies that the crowd wants Modi to tell Hogg not to be make personal vulgar comments.
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It is said that when a person has intense hatred towards someone, he starts remembering that person all the time! That is what you are doing. For God’s sake, leave alone Modi and let us get on debating on some other worthwhile issues. Cricket should be made a non-issue in our country at least for few years.
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Good one Jayan !
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@ Goldstar, since you seem to be so in love with the rags that you read, maybe you are unfamiliar with Niall Ferguson and the whole concept of counterfactual history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_history
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Obviously Modi’s victory has left the “Hindutwits” so brain-dead that they cannot even encash this opportunity to show what their leader would do in this moment of “national” crisis without detecting a ploy to defame him.
He would, of course, detect a Christian plot against this great Hindu country which does not distinguish people on the basis of religion, caste or language. But then upon realising that Harbhajan Singh is a non-Hindu, he would walk out of the press conference saying that he only deals with entire XI equally and does not distinguish one cricketer from the other.
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Nonsense post…..
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Vinod Mehta has promised Modi-free columns in 2008. Pls follow suit.
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I don’t know what he would have done in this situation but If Modi was pushed around and lewdly gestured off the stage like pawar was, by Angel Ponting & Co, he would have taught them a lesson about manners on the stage itself by tearing off the mike first from Angel Ponting.
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Modi would have waved his saffron towel and started running around the pitch sans his clothes!
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In complete post.. You could have added a few more of them.
How Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Priyaranjan Dasmunshi, Arjun Singh, Arundhati Roy…. etc, would have handled this issue..
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