{"id":429,"date":"2006-01-02T12:37:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T07:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2006\/01\/02\/mixed-up-mythology\/"},"modified":"2006-01-02T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T07:07:56","slug":"mixed-up-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200601\/mixed-up-mythology\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed up mythology?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vajpayee’s analogy is neither stupid nor mixed up<\/a>. Parashurama went around the world 21 times trying to eliminate the race of Kshatriyas from the world. If you think, as Vajpayee probably does, that it was an unpleasant, thankless, but necessary task that was ultimately unsuccessful, then you’ve got perfectly what he thinks of the whole thing. He is tired and is now passing on the mantle to the next generation, but without really achieving anything that he hoped to achieve.
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\nVajpayee’s analogies have always been expressive. I remember when he was becoming the Prime Minister for the first time (the 13 day stint in 1996). He was talking about how the road ahead led through a thorny bush, and there was the danger of the dress getting torn. The same feeling – an unpleasant task that had to be done, but which would ultimately bring no credit to him. <\/p>\n

Then there was the time when he made a “clever” statement that got lost in translation to English. It was about his saying that he would always be a Swayamsevak.<\/i> That is not what he said. He said in Hindi that whether he remained a Rashtriya Swayam Sevak<\/i> or not, he would still remain the Rashtra’s Pratham Sevak<\/i>, i.e. nation’s First Servant<\/i>. A cute phrasing – First Servant would loosely translate to “Prime Minister”. So basically, he was subtly saying that his loyalties lay to the country and not to the organization. <\/p>\n

Anyway, it is sadder to see a mind being lost than a body coming to an end, especially a mind like Vajpayee’s. From all accounts, he is slowly loosing grip over his mind due to Parkinson’s. I just hope that flashes like these continue to be displayed for as long as it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vajpayee’s analogy is neither stupid nor mixed up. Parashurama went around the world 21 times trying to eliminate the race of Kshatriyas from the world. If you think, as Vajpayee probably does, that it was an unpleasant, thankless, but necessary task that was ultimately unsuccessful, then you’ve got perfectly what he thinks of the whole […]<\/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\/429"}],"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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}