THE OTHER TONGUE (UK's TAKE ON...)
(Lakshay Raja)
This ain’t much of our job to judge the political situation going around the nation for there are quite a million mouths already to predict the insides and the future. The thing we bother to talk of is more or less of an opinion to what we feel is a series of taunts and gossips (outside the borders) of our Prime minister’s foreign visits, hiding behind the overwhelms of our nation and the people.
I was close to what is called, being blown away, by how the evening went in Wembley on the Prime minister’s visit, followed by the way it was telecasted by the Indian media.
Yet as I see all of it, each moment of the evening and the speeches being telecasted over and again, and anywhere I looked around printed MODI, it looked as if the world talked of it. But then, it looked.
Oxford won’t congratulate you on your little research paper praised by your college and your society. If the research paper somehow gets into Oxford, won’t it be right to see how they react to it, before celebrating?
As my cursor circled to load UK’s leading e-journals, I expected the home page to be half filled with the relating stories of something our media had been pseudo celebrating. I checked. And scrolled. And browsed. And scrolled. And did find a small section in the category ‘opinion’ in ‘THE GUARDIAN’. Finally.
The headline read, ’The Guardian view on Mr. Modi’s visit.’
The article could be the voice of United Kingdoms, merged up with the words that showed domination. Here’s the link to the article:
I always feared of how the world sees our political rallies and the speeches that makes me hide and say, “That ain’t my country”. Or do they ignore what is being said back in our country for the vote back? Here are a few lines from the article that answers-
‘Mr Modi has been whirling around the world in the 18 months since he took office seeking to woo the 35 million-strong Indian diaspora. He wants their support, and to attract more of their investment and skills back to India. But he especially wants to stand tall in the eyes of the public at home who see him dazzling Indian audiences abroad’
It further adds…
‘So Mr Modi includes what is essentially a political rally in most of his trips, packing out Madison Square Garden in New York, the cricket ground in Dubai, and today Wembley stadium. The people who listen to him don’t have Indian votes, but there are votes in them for Mr Modi all the same. These successes on the foreign stage help obscure setbacks and controversies in India, like recent electoral defeat in Bihar and the anger over his lukewarm response to the murder of a Muslim accused of eating beef.’
The article further talks of how the image of the Indian prime minister and the rumoured involvement in the Gujarat riots could moderate his reception.
For a nation or a party to go around the world with something like ‘make in India’ would mean the same use of words and promises back in their own county as said or done globally. Each word being said in any of the rally by any party member in power counts on how the nation and the leader is received on foreign visits. The closest to the prime minister if says something controversial on rapes counts when the prime minister himself goes around to praise ‘selfie_with_daughter.’
A lonely cat walks outside its territory to greet the dogs and ask for peace. The least the other cats can contribute is behave, back at their own place.
