Hindustan Times
Two interesting things about Bal Thackeray that you may not know. One: in 1966 when the Shiv Sena first exploded on the scene, Indira Gandhi had only just become the Prime Minister of India and Rajiv Gandhi was yet to marry Sonia Maino. Of today’s senior leaders, Pranab Mukherjee was a young academic who had not even joined the Congress. Sharad Pawar had not yet been elected to the state assembly. In that sense, Bal Thackeray is probably the most senior of all active politicians in India today. Read more
(13 votes, average: 4.08 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 6:54 am
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Indira Gandhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Sonia Maino
If I were a driver, I would take a hockey stick and thrash as many airline pilots as I could get my hands on. Then, if I wasn’t too exhausted, I’d start on India’s politicians and give them a good thrashing too. If you’ve been following the saga of the Kerala MP Abdul Wahab and the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), then you will understand the context.
(4 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Airline Pilots, Backward Castes, Dalit, Dalit politician, Hockey Stick, Indian Commercial Pilots Association, Indian Muslim, India’sPoliticians, Indira Gandhi, Jyoti Basu, Kozhikode Airport, Lalu Yadav, Mahendra Singh Tikait’s, Mayawati, Poor Driver, Rajiv Gandhi, RK Dhawan
