{"id":66916,"date":"2019-05-14T00:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=66916"},"modified":"2019-05-14T00:40:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:10:59","slug":"more-rancid-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/more-rancid-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"More rancid the better!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insult Now Asset<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Poonam I Kaushish<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rajnetik virodhi ya jaani dushman? A question that niggles as the narrative hits a new low with highly vitriolic and acerbic mud-slinging down to gutter-sniping slug-fest between the BJP, Congress and regional Parties over the last few weeks. Which underscores that slander, sleaze, sensation, smear, sully and smirch are the new political dialogues.Serenaded by frenzied audiences\u2019 seetees galore. More vulgar the better, dil maange more!
\nCertainly, the audacious bare-all below-the-belt attack by Modi on former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi might not seem behoving of him as one does not speak ill of the dead. Said he: \u201cRajiv Gandhi may have been declared Mr Clean by his courtiers but he died as \u201cBhrashtachari No.1. I challenge Congress to fight the polls in his name.\u201d Adding, \u201cRajiv used the Indian Navy\u2019s premier warship INS Virat as his personal taxi for a family holiday along-with his Italian in-laws and friends and did it with great swag.\u201d
\nNeedless to say, it had the Congress frothing and led Rajiv\u2019s progenies to lash out. Beti Priyanka, compared Modi with Mahabharata character ahankari Duryodhana and said, ego and arrogance are two things that are common to both\u2026.I have not seen a more coward and weaker Prime Minister\u201d, while beta Rahul dubbed him a rioter and grandiosely responded with a hug. Even as NaMo justified it by asserting \u201cFor over a month you have been giving me, my mother and family galis, we have the ability to pay back in the same coin\u201d.
\nTrue, one can fault Modi for his harsh language, innuendoes, call it too blunt for the political palate and even dismiss it as being brash. Some might shrug it off as part and parcel of political discourse. But the fact is that he alone is not to blame as his intemperate language is no different from what other netas have perfected down the years.
\nLook at Trinamool\u2019s Mamata who averred, \u201cWhen Modi comes to Bengal and says that I am a top extortionist, I wish to give him one tight slap of democracy.\u201d If this was not bad enough she went a step further, \u201che is a liar \u2026. A person drenched in blood\u2026.I will ask him to do 100 sit-ups if corruption charges against my Party are proven wrong.\u201d Countered NaMo, \u201cI advise Didi give a tight slap to some of your Party leaders who stole people\u2019s money in the chit fund scam.\u201d
\nThe barbs got uglier when Modi talked about \u2018Trinamool\u2019s Tolabaazi (organized extortion racket) Tax\u2019 enforced by Bhua Mamata and her bhatija. Shot back Didi, \u201cWoh ek badtameez nalayak beta hai who does not care for his mother and wife.\u201d Worse, was RJD\u2019s Rabri Devi who called Modi \u201cA jallad (executioner) with a \u2018khoonkhar maansikta\u201d (vicious mindset). Sic.
\nIt got more rancid as days went by. A Congress Minister called Modi a \u201cGandi naali ka keeda aur Ganguteli,\u201d another leader, \u201cWoh ek paagal kutta hai aur Bhasmasur hai\u2026. rabies bimari se peedit bandar hai, rajnitik Dawood Ibrahim hai.\u201d From Hitler, chooha, lahu purush, asatya ka saudagar, Raavan, saanp, bichoo, ganda aadmi zeher bone vaala\u201d The BJP got a shot at countering this when Rahul\u2019s Guru Sam Pitroda flippantly dismissed the 1984 Sikh genocide as \u201chua toh hua,\u201d by accusing the Party as khooni.
\nMore. Titillating voters has become common whereby anything and everything is game. For the BJP, \u201cMuslims can be identified by removing their clothes (reference to circumcision) to Samajwadi\u2019s \u201cJaya Prada wears a khaki (RSS colour) underwear,\u201d and insinuation linking Modi and Mayawati\u2019s single status to a post-poll alliance between the BJP and BSP. \u201cWoh teen baar Modi ki godh mein bathe chukeyi hai\u201d while NCP\u2019s Pawar dubs Modi as \u201cderanged who needs treatment in a mental hospital\u201d.
\nAlas, none want to address critical questions: Why are politicians\u2019 discourses becoming more and more venomous and toxic? Can such language and conduct be condoned? In Delhi the BJP stands accused of calling AAP\u2019s Kejriwal \u201ca dog\u201d and its woman candidate \u201ca prostitute\u201d alongside casteist slurs.
\nFrankly, I am neither surprised as our netagan are only showing their girgit true colours throwing all public decency and decorum to the winds! Gone are the days when jibes and trolls were funny or sarcastic and netas took them in their strides.
\nToday, the lines between an opponent and an enemy have got blurred wherein trash talk and brazen innuendoes seem to be the flavour of the season. Dumping basic courtesies and decencies all take venomous delight in reveling in their baser characteristics swaying to the heady tinkle of cheap thrills and seetees. Wherein gutter-sniping, sordid and spiteful tu-tu-mein-mein between opponents and Parties is the order of the day. Of dirty linen being washed in public, more vulgar the better.
\nThereby, underscoring the bankruptcy that is manifest in our system wherein netas have perfected the art of cultivating low morality and high greed according to their whims and fancies made more malignant by our fragmented politics. Resulting in immorality becoming a way of life, what damn difference does one more slanderous attack make?
\nSadly, through this entire diatribe one thing emerges crystal clear: the political skullduggery indulged in mirrors the harsh and horrendous reality of our polity. Where there is no dividing line between statecraft and witchcraft, what is correct and incorrect. Never before has politics denigrated to the sewer level as it has today.
\nIn this slugfest of personal insults and character assassinations against rivals along-with a euphemism \u201cI am right,\u201d the BJP vs rest tu-tu-mein-mein is a harsh reflection on the depth of political depravation we have come to. A nouvelle vote-catching mantra in the hope that this cesspit sniping would bring them tripti\u2014 and power. None cares a damn for decency and decorum except for scoring brownie points against each other. Ends matter not the means and winning is the name of the game.
\nConsequently, thanks to our polity\u2019s wind-bagging the very idea of democracy has been vitiated. Add to it the peoples\u2019 distaste for vulgarity, gender insensitivity, sexist thinking and speeches spewing hatred.
\nWhat next? Clearly, it is time that our politicians realize that they are putting a premium on insult. How long will they allow profligacy be the bedrock of India\u2019s democracy? Undeniably, our leaders need to tone down divisive and personal attacks, engage each other on issues affecting the people and nation and not personalities, put electioneering back on the rails of dignified debate and adopt a zero-tolerance stand on offensive language.
\nThe aim should be to raise the bar on public discourse, not lower it any more than has been done. And those who reduce the level of discourse to such depths only do so at the cost of exposing their lack of civility to the electorate and the nation at large.
\nOur leaders should remember one age-old truth: If you point one slanderous finger at another, four other slanderous fingers will point back at you! How long do we suffer the stampede for sensation and slur? Can a nation be bare and bereft of all sense of shame and morality? \u2014\u2014 INFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Insult Now Asset By Poonam I Kaushish Rajnetik virodhi ya jaani dushman? A question that niggles as the narrative hits a new low with highly vitriolic and acerbic mud-slinging down to gutter-sniping slug-fest between the BJP, Congress and regional Parties over the last few weeks. Which underscores that slander, sleaze, sensation, smear, sully and smirch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-features"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}