Ahead of the “most awaited car launch in the world“, Ahmedabad-based social scientist Shiv Visvanathan spots resemblances between the man behind the Maruti and the man behind the Tata Nano, in The Indian Express:
“Sanjay Gandhi lives with us mutated as Narendra Modi.
“Both attempted to create a notion of politics around a model of ideal citizenship. Both directed violence against those reluctant to adhere to this model of citizenship. Both were great advocates of privatisation. Both are contemptuous of politics as a slow decision-making process. Both had a contempt for party politics. Both were subjects of commissions of enquiry. For both, concepts and ideology were secondary, mere footnotes to the logic of power.
“Both knew how to cater to middle class vulnerabilities. Both realised that evil, fascism, tyranny becomes possible if one can play on the insecurities of the middle class. Both saw themselves as crime fighters. Both had visions of the great city. Both used violence to create futuristic spaces emptied of dissent, ethnicity, and unionism. Both were open to technology, science, innovation. Both saw these as substitutes for politics and democracy.
“In fact, in the twinning of the two one sees not just similarity and continuity, but the real thread of Indian politics.”
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Fantastic idea for news story ! The headline is just too good..comparisions are scary..
This is preposterous to say the least. It is like comparing apples and oranges.
Maruti was the brain child of Sanjay from the inception stage to the setting up Maruti Udyog limited. Nano was not conceived by Modi, it was done by Tata and Modi only provided the infrastructure for setting up the Nano factory in Gujarat because our idiotic commies messed up the chance they had.
In any case, that is 2nd post bashing Modi in 2 days…a sort of record for Churmuri…As someone mentioned, do all you can to help the election process :)
Simplistic trash.
I want to see the expression on that dude’s face when he had that Eureka! moment. :D
Authors intention is to bring Modi tag to the forefront at whatever cost and at whatever rubbish coincidences like the story highlighted..It has become a fashion to bring Modi into news columns so that websites like churumuri gets more hits/mileage..
Both men spoke things that made sense.. They did say everything that made sense.. If nasbandi was followed strictly during late seventies and early eighties, we wouldn’t have touched 100 crore mark yet..
They worked on to create jobs than popular schemes.. If Sanjay were living today, we would have seen some visible changes within our society..
So is that why Varun Gandhi joined Bha.Ja.Pa? He saw his father in Modi? =/
nawn. exactly what i was thinking.
but there is a 800 kg karadi in the equation:
if sanjay ~ modi and sanjay ~ indira and indira ~ sonia then the author asserts that modi ~ indira ~ sonia and modi ~ sonia.
hamam mein sab nange!!
and one side in the last equation is not even a party leader, while the other is the facto leader of the country.
but beyond these stupid equations, the post itself is taking too much liberty with methods with giant imaginary leaps of connections. so much for social ‘science’.
Ok what is the point here? see, see this guy in the past did all this he is a very bad person. Now we have such and such a person he is doing the exact same to same things like the other person he is also very bad!
A teacher once said “If one has the gift of the gab one can prove anything by metaphors and association” To hell with scientific analysis.
It is really amusing to see people on overdrive to paint something that they dont like black. Instead of painfully going through this comparison you might as well said this ” Modi is the devil himself! period” that would just about close the topic and we can all go home.
Very life, rise of Mahatma Modi is exactly opposite to Sanjay Gandhi. While former rose from a poor economic class, backward social class, without family connection, Sanjay was born with silver spoon.
While former represents very grass root level politics, later denotes dynasty. Their take on democracy is also quite opposite.
There is some similarity but more difference. Its a mischiveous oped by a honorary member of puedo gang!
Very life, rise of Mahatma Modi is exactly opposite to Sanjay Gandhi. While former rose from a poor economic class, backward social class, without family connection, Sanjay was born with silver spoon. While former represents very grass root level politics, later denotes dynasty. Their take on democracy is also quite opposite. There is some similarity but more difference. Its a mischiveous oped by a honorary member of puedo gang!
However, much of what author stated about middle class is true.
Here author traces the time between Sanjay and Mahatma Modi.
But Indian middle class did NOT start wth Sanjay. It was started after extablishment of universities by British.
Congress party was in the control of urban middle class during first 20-30 years, led by people (Tilak, Lal-Bal-Pal, Aurobindo, Bharati….all urban centers of India- Calcutta, Punjab, Pune, Madras..).. who are heros of Hindutva. Gandhi expanded the scenario- reached to the rural areas.
Hindutva took a back seat some 100 years back. What we are seeing today, fight between BJP and Congress is re-enactment of the same battle.
The more ‘education’ grows, the more urbanization grows, the mode middle class grows….its advantage Hindutva. Hindutva groups also expanded to villages, non urban areas in the past 90 years.
Its a loosing battle for Congress (Indira). Sonia, Rahul are no Mahatma Gandhi and there is no way this fight can be won by them.
Modi bashing has become a fashion statement in the English Media. Only the other day we saw an example of Modi bashing from Press in the country which denied Visa to a visionary leader from third world country like India (which they beleive otherwise produces slumdogs and irresponsible call center agents).
The secularist media here are only too glad to follow up with these second-rate articles. Why dont we just learn to appreciate Modi for his good administration? 2002 Godhra riots were not engineered by anyone. It was reaction from people who had their anger pent up for too long and is caused by none other than those who started it by torching the Sabarmati express.
both of them wear specs
Coming in the next few weeks to a trash-bag near you :
1. 10 Similarilities between BJP & Khmer Rouge
2. Modi is Mao – for starters, they share the same first letter
3. Gujarat is India’s Saudi Arabia – (guess why?? )
4. Modi is Manchurian Candidate ( read – Soviet Stooge)
5. Why Congress is the ONLY authentic Secular Party
Churumuri – as I have said before; you live up to your name. All air – no substance. ( to tell the truth – all fart & no shit to show)
“If Sanjay were living today…”
Huh! We wouldn’t have the Sugar Thief for a President and a Coterie running a Remote Government. Was that why his plane had to crash ?
The comparison is wrong, demonstrably so. Sanjay Gandhi was a failure. He brought out no car, or anything else for that matter. He was an extra constitutional authority who misused power, rode piggyback on his mother. He was corrupt. Narendra Modi is an achiever, a person of sterling character, no matter what the liberal bleeding hearts bleat. Anyway, Nano car is not his making, it is of TATAs. One swallow does not make a season. Just because there is a minor coincidence, why compare a person who was essentially a thug with Narendra Modi.
Now, why did Churumuri.com publish this tripe, because son of SG is in news?
Looking at the response to Robert Kaplan’s “Atlantic” piece on Modi, and Shiv Visvanathan’s on Modi and Sanjay Gandhi, it is clear that the only article that Modi’s “fans” are willing to entertain is a tract or a tablet handed from the high heavens which has “Jai Sri Modi” written on it 10,008 items, like unmarried women and students appearing in exams used to eons ago.
To be in Modi’s thrall is all very well, to sing in his praise is OK, and to think he is Lord Rama’s gift to Hindus is all right too, but to live in such a high state of denial and delusion, to dismiss even the slightest critical and intellectual scrutiny as an attempt to knock down their man, tells an awful lot about how serious the ailment is.
Trash? Tripe? So what if it is? Does that bar us from debating and discussing, without indulging in the standard name-calling?
Even Modi has come down his arrogant pedestal and is painting himself in what he thinks are humanistic hues in his quest for a larger national role. His unquestioning fans and followers however seem determined to push him back into the deep, dark, dirty and disgraceful hole from which he has emerged—and want keep him there for all time to come.
With friends like these, Modi needs enemies like he needs a court conviction.
Prashant Krishnamurthy – Do you not realize that Churumuri has been posting anti Modi articles one after the other?
Instead of lecturing Modi’s “unthinking” fans blindly, would it not be wiser for you to ask for balanced and even pro-Modi write-ups?
Who’s being biased here?
If you think Kaplan’s article is anything but trash; why not write something in its favor and see if it holds up in court?
But please don’t expect intelligent folks to buy any kind of tripe just because it’s being sold in the Liberal bazaar.
PK saar …
to dismiss even the slightest critical and intellectual scrutiny as an attempt to knock down their man, tells an awful lot about how serious the ailment is.
Trash? Tripe? So what if it is? Does that bar us from debating and discussing, without indulging in the standard name-calling?
ok agreed. but why stop at first order. why not go one step further and lets also apply this principle to the scrutiny of scrutinies.
like applying marxism to study marxism itself. that is to ask what is the dialectics of dialectic materialism? if you know of any work in this, please guide me. request.
>>Even Modi has come down his arrogant pedestal and is painting himself in what he thinks are humanistic hues in his quest for a larger national role.>>
When was Modi on a arrogant pedestal to get down OR is PK, Peekay likh raha hai :)
Sanjay ~ Modi.. ??
Modi too is a womanizer?? I never knew this!!
The true essence of political science! Kudos to Churumuri for writing random stuff with an intention to portray that it made sense.
PS: I neither support Modi nor Gandhi. Just that the article written by Shiv Vishwanathan is really random.
No one is interested in them as a person so comparing their biographies is immaterial. Shiv compares their ideologies or implicit symbolism in the works of these two men. Both of them worked for marginalization of poor, development at humanitarian cost, development as a certificate for their politics, systematized violence, contemptuous of slow debate oriented democratic process, prefer result oriented fast paced development [alas many of the well to do and educated are also in this trap].