{"id":344,"date":"2005-06-23T18:55:41","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T13:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/06\/23\/a-guide-to-torturing-a-bjp-supporter\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T18:55:41","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T13:25:41","slug":"a-guide-to-torturing-a-bjp-supporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200506\/a-guide-to-torturing-a-bjp-supporter\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to torturing a BJP supporter"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was away, I missed commenting on the Advani-Jinnah secularism kerfuffle. If you are like me and you enjoy seeing others in pain, you should try to talk to a BJP supporter about the whole thing.
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\nIn the first place, the attack on Advani was quite unfair. He did not explicitly call Jinnah a “secular” person. If you read the speech<\/a>, you’ll realise that quoting from Jinnah’s speech was a subtle way of taunting his hosts that they had moved away even from Jinnah’s vision for Pakistan. OK – I know that I am stretching it, but even if it doesn’t seem like it, just say it<\/i> to the anguished BJP supporter and watch his face light up. So when the BJP supporter blames the media for the problem, (being a BJP supporter means that he will inevitably blame the secular media for something, or he is not a true BJP supporter) point out that it was the RSS and the VHP who pounced on Advani, and shouldn’t they<\/i> have gone through the text of the speech before pouncing? <\/p>\n

Now the true (i.e. hardcore) BJP supporter usually will not criticize the RSS. So he will say something like “Advani should have clarified the statement instead of going into a huff” at which point you point out that if you are 78 years old, have a “distinguished” record of service to the Hindutva cause and are the President of the party to boot, if someone like Togadia calls you a traitor, what on earth are you supposed to feel? At this point, the BJP supporter’s despair will be complete. It is a good idea, by the way, to keep a digital camera handy to capture the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I was away, I missed commenting on the Advani-Jinnah secularism kerfuffle. If you are like me and you enjoy seeing others in pain, you should try to talk to a BJP supporter about the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}