It’s a bit rich for BJP to call a comic’s antics with Rahul Gandhi in Indore uncouth and an insult to PM Modi’s mother. Too late to bemoan falling standards of political language. Modi and BJP have repeatedly lampooned Sonia and Rahul. They should learn to take a joke, too.
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Without getting into a chicken or eggs as the starting point debate, must say the public, political, electoral debate has reached a nadir. Unbecoming both of a modern Republic, the way one sees India, or an ancient civilisation that guides the world, as many do.
Without getting into a chicken or eggs as the starting point debate, must say the public, political, electoral debate has reached a nadir. Unbecoming both of a modern Republic, the way one sees India, or an ancient civilisation that guides the world, as many do.
Without getting into a chicken or eggs as the starting point debate, must say the public, political, electoral debate has reached a nadir. Unbecoming both of a modern Republic, the way one sees India, or an ancient civilisation that guides the world, as many do.