Comedy Circus @ Delhi

                                       Comedy Circus @ Delhi

There are three types of audience- audience who listen and who analyze, audience who hear but not listen and accept that which appeals to them and is in their interest, and audience who love to have a hearty laugh at the expense of others. The second type is sandwiched between the microscopically small number of the first and the humungous majority of the third.  The last mentioned comprises men and women both from the educated and the semi-educated classes that include the youth in their salad days, green in judgement and looking for all time fun and amusement and the middle class that fawn upon  Don Quixotes who offer them  impracticable utopian dreams  spiced with ridicule and contemptuous laughter at their opponents. They all love rabble rousers who provide them diversion and entertainment from the daily hassles of a pedestrian life.

Modi’s talk in Delhi struck a chord with his audience precisely because he has the art of demagoguery. His strong physical appearance and his roaring address interspiced with - ‘bhaiyo and Behano’ -give him an undeniable appeal to the masses who have assembled only to see him and not hear him speak. For them it is all dramebazz and fun and they don’t mind loose talk, exaggerated fibbing, uncivilized language and uncultured mockery of all those the speaker despises.  They love half truths and three quarter lies, they love derision and sarcasm , they love savage rhetoric and they love stand-up comedies. Modi provides them free entertainment with his personal attack on all those who he claims are asardars.

He appeals to them to vote for a dream team- not knowing that dreams evaporate when one wakes up to reality. Even if we take Modi’s phrase ‘dream team’ at its face value, who is his dream team in Gujarat? No one hears any name other than Modi in Gujarat. So what is his dream team except himself-and what is the mantra for his  dream team- ‘namo modi’. Then he talks of the ‘dirty team’ “Throw the dirty team and bring in the dream team” roars Modi.  Have we ever heard of any politician-including his Sangh parivar- abusing all those in the government as ‘dirty team’? I am sure with admiration for all things Gujarat, he cannot say that Nirma wash is only for him and not for others.

His heart goes out to the “asardar’ who heads the country and he sheds tears that our ‘asardar’ has been insulted by the Pakistan Prime Minister –on the basis of what the twitterati had  spread through the social media. Modi does not need to check and verify facts as he claims himself to be a twitterati.  Moreover his job is only to inflame the masses with his cheap jibes. But carried away by the social media trash, he forgets the fact that he had been insulting the PM  by not attending the meetings the PM convenes and by calling him names  such as Maun Mohan Singh leading a ‘dirty team’. After all Namo is an honourable gentleman full of respect and regard for his Prime Minister and his dirty team. He is a patriot whose patriotism is best evidenced in his contempt for our western neighbours who will be provoked to escalate proxy wars along the LOC and carryout terror bombing in the country.

Coming from the land of Gandhi who lived the truth of “satyameva jayate’, Modi then without a shred of evidence talks about Gandhi Bhakti as collecting tons of currency notes and laying at the gates of 10, Janpath. It certainly creates laughter ripples among the audience who does not care to check if Modi had actually seen the currency notes flying through the gates of 10, Janpath.

He attacks a fellow CM who has scored like him a hat-trick of wins. He calls the Delhi CM‘ a ribbon cutting CM’ not knowing that you cut ribbons only after the work is completed. What a right-handed compliment he has given to a woman CM who has given him company as the three-times returned CM. Incidentally all these derogatory references to women  -in particular to  Dehati aurat’ is an indication of Modi’s attitude to women. The dehati aurat is  no doubt a village woman, but who says she is illiterate or uneducated or an whining idiot? It is certainly an insult to all women- and to rural women in particular who make a large majority among the females.

 The media reports say that the crowd applauded this brilliant performance by the great showman. They must have gone laughing all the way back home. They  were seized with Saturday afternoon fever with  an overdose of comic entertainment. Who cares if they are truths or half truths or quarter truths? Who cares for cultured language as what they had come to witness was only a comedy circus?

Modi has certainly won over the comic instincts of the majority of his audience. Has he won over their hearts? Time will tell.