Chidambaram’s ‘saffron terror’ has scared him and the Congress too, though he is putting a show of bravery. He has thrown the weight of his difficult-to-shoulder phrase on others, as his wont is; presently on Digvijay Singh, saying that patent of the phrase is not with him. That’s sufficient to prove that he can neither create patentable products nor can he make a proper use if they exist.

Lawyers don’t make good “quotable-quoters”. Take the top five lawyers in India and you’d realize.
 
The reason is simple. The inborn arrogance, fused in or developed among them makes them feel that they are also the “lords of words”. They nurture a false secret ego that they could win the cases connected with words. It’s because they take any issue as the cause and fight for that.

Language and words that shape a language have to be handled with care, not rough hand (foul mouth in the context) but soft tongue.

Politicians have the history to make good quotes, like Winston Churchill, John Kennedy, Indira Gandhi and like. However, they were far away politicians from the present ones.

Nowadays, all similar thinking minds are making efforts to hone their word power. Small minds too, think alike! They however do not know that they require copywriters for that. Some semi-buddu politicians know that!

In case of ‘saffron terror’ they have lined up for the comments in the order of their weight.

Sharad Pawar, the weightiest of the politician threw the first colour. He is a politician connected with green the most. He moves with or makes them move with him the green revolutionists and the portfolio he is in charge of has mainly the colour green shade.

He may argue on that saying wheat, maze are not green but yellow and try to crush my claim as he did once asking Uddhav Thackeray, executive president of ShivSena in the time of his padyatras for the cause of suiciding farmers, bilking him whether he knew, the onion grows above or below the ground.

Congress has the habit of entering troubled water by employing ministers like PC, though they have a long list of good claimants for any portfolio. After his FMship magniloquence Congress is again in a mood to avoid PC. It’s obvious as the party general secretary and media department chairman, J. Dwivedi has indicated sundown signals by saying the colour of terrorism is black. How else the black colour could signify terrorism?

ShivSena and BJP have thrown the ruling party on the back foot for certain. But they don’t have the debaters who could send PC also along with. Bharat Kumar Raut MP (ShivSena) is consulting editor to Times Group as quoted at the bottom of his articles. However, he cannot face with tenacity any issue. He takes more pleasure in Marathi channels as obvious it is easy for him to be long-winded in Marathi than in English.

In my opinion Gopinath Munde, though unable to speak in English is witty enough to disarm Congress and PC. But it seems BJP doesn’t want to project him. It has happened in past too.

The national party in search of power to rule would have to give up this parochial set up of mind; sooner the better.

Bhagwa, Keshari, Kesaria or Haldi (in Kannada) is still lagging behind as far as the revolution is concerned in India. We’ve seen Green revolution (agricultural), White revolution (milk), but where is the Keshari revolution?

In Marathi Haldi means turmeric. It’s applied to heal wounds due to its medicinal quality.

Marathi MPs of opposition party are busy applying haldi to their wounds including those in the mouths from inside made by the likes of PC and by the Haldi co-walkers in Karnataka. They suffer in silence due to vocabulary lesions. Or like beautiful girls they can’t apply it to the outsides of their faces to add to the beauty.

The wounded civilization has lost the sense of colours that are meant for festivals and beautifying.

- Divakar Kambli

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