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Trump is mistaken if he thinks Gujarat grand spectacle is actually for him

US President Donald Trump must be thinking he is the world’s first leader to have such a huge rally organised for himself outside his country.

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India has become a world leader, but POTUS, or President of the United States, Donald Trump doesn’t know that. Trump considers himself to be a world leader because he is the most-followed politician. He claims Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told him he is number one on the social media site. And so he is full of pride.

People are saying that when India’s Prime Minister called Trump to invite him on a visit, the US president asked: ‘How will you treat me?’. To this, the emperor replied: ‘We will treat you the way a world leader treats another world leader.’ The response made Trump put a break on the trade deal with India. But let’s come back to this later.

The fact is that India has left the US behind. Forget social media, the number of followers the Indian leader has in real life can make Trump forget how to count. He was taken aback over the supposed mention to him that seven million people are going to greet him when he lands in Ahmedabad Monday. 

The dying Yamuna has sprung back to life and ‘Poverty’ has been plastered behind a wall. Has any country ever taken control of history, environment, economy and society in a matter of one week like this before? Trump wouldn’t know about it.

Although, just before being plastered behind the wall, Poverty is learnt to have told the emperor that it forgives the ruler of Hindustan for killing it. The emperor had asked Poverty to mention its last wish, to which Poverty replied it wants to see the emperor’s friend Trump. No one knows what the emperor said but the news was spread the following day that there is no Poverty in Hindustan anymore.


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Using Elizabeth as a reference, noted author Kamleshwar had written a story titled ‘George Pancham Ki Naak (George Pancham’s nose)’. The story is about the search for the nose of George Pancham’s statue. The sculptor suggests using a living person’s nose. If Kamleshwar was alive today, he would have written a story called ‘George Pancham Ki Aankh’ (George Pancham’s eye). The sculptor of today has blindfolded crores of people.

And why was the Academy giving Best Story and Best Director Oscar awards to South Korean film Parasite? They have been hailing it as the best film on class difference and class struggle. They don’t know that in India, which is a superpower, all the awards — be it best story, best director, best VFX, best set design — would go to only one person. You don’t need to study at Harvard University to learn how to end class difference. Do the hard work, build a wall, it’s done — class difference is over. Did the Academy Awards not like this performance? Do they envy India’s status as a world leader?

POTUS must still be thinking he is the sole world leader. He must be thinking he is the world’s first leader who is organising such a huge rally for himself outside his country. But he clearly doesn’t know better. The truth is that the POTUS is doing a rally for India’s emperor, which the latter will use to sound the prestige bugle before all the upcoming elections. This is the friendship call made by one world leader to another world leader. The glow of this friendship will hide both the darkness of poverty and pollution of Yamuna. You won’t be able to see it from George Pancham’s eye.

This article has been translated from Hindi. Read the original version here.

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17 COMMENTS

  1. Three laughable BS in a small article. 1) India is a superpower 2) Modi is a world leader 3) India has no poverty. Sarcastic it may be but a BS repeated again and again in the hope it will become a fact. Sad India is ranked 132 out of 192 countries in the world. India is measured not based on its “facts”.
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  2. Mr. Modi was hosting a megalomaniac president who expected gargantuan crowds to inflate his ego. Mr. Modi knows too well that Gujarat will not disappoint his son who is the pride of every Indian. I wish Mr. Modi could repose same faith in other states.
    I too cover my tattered sofa with a bedsheet when there are guests visiting my home.
    Ms. Jyoti Yadav most unfortunately needs to be explained that it is not out of shame we are hiding our poverty, but welcoming our guests with our very best appearance we would like to project as during our job interview in proper attire

  3. Jyoti Yadavji I feel like puking at all this hungama about the visit. One narcissistic leader providing a grand welcome to another, the country be damned. This is not the way diplomacy is conducted. Under Modi, India’s diplomacy has been reduced to show boating before fawning NRIs.

    This visit will then be tom-tommed as a great success for god knows what. What it brought out starkly is the attitude of the Govt. India is embarrassed about its poverty, but not moved enough to solve the problem with proper policy. Either it has no idea on what to do or does not care.

    It also brings out very sharply that the interests of the people are very different from the interests of the Govt of the political party in power. People will say all this has been done before. To which I say nothing ever changes in this country. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  4. Tump knows/smells filth and gutter when he is taken there. His father built rent fixed housing in New York for the poor several decades ago. It will be hard to fool him as the world economics, intelligence and ranking agency keeps him informed long before Modi.

  5. Yeah right, what a load of malarkey. I am old enough to remember the days when a Rajiv Gandhi or another Congress loser came to visit our town they would pave the roads overnight, which would then promptly get washed away within 2 weeks. Now these congressi loudmouths have the temerity to question the preparations to receive a world leader. Get lost!

  6. Thank you for your delightful look at our contemporary reality. I hope you have now removed your tongue that must have been lodged firmly in your cheek through the writing process.

    May I also congratulate your translator on a masterful job!

  7. Three laughable BS in a small article. 1) India is a super power 2) Modi is a world leader 3) India has no poverty.. Sarcastic it may be but a BS repeated again and again in the hope it will become a fact. Sad India is ranked 132 out of 192 countries in the world. India is measured not based on its “facts”.

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