the pain of being Karunanidhi now!!
after the 'dalit' card backfired with even his loyalists not having the courage to defend him, MK has declared himself as a (relatively, even though he is comparing himself with the rest of his own family) poor man with only 6Cr asset to his name. carefully he has left out the wife (300 Cr supposed to have been given to his wife by the grand nephew according to Radia tapes), to avoid unnecessary confusion.
he has also mentioned that he is the only CM living in a 'street house' carefully not mentioning that almost the entire street belongs to his family.
the pain of knowing that your own daughter is openly discussing your inability to comprehend with PR agents, that the family has decided whoever is translating that day gets to determine your thinking, that all this is known to a few and now to the public (thanks to the Radia tapes), must be very bad.
MK had assumed even the 2G to be a family problem that no one took a note of, so, when there was a tiff between his son Azhagiri and the grand nephew Maran brothers (the owners of the largest media group in Southern India), he allowed the same to be resolved and grandly declared after the reunited family photo session was over that, 'there is no 2G Spectrum charges now'! glibly he had assumed that it was an issue that Maran brothers had raised due to the family feud and now it will stop as no one else knows and is interested. their media group dropped it, as they dropped campaign to bring to book those who killed the two ordinary people (maybe they were collateral damage in the family feud).
Subramaniam Swami being the one bringing in the charges gave easy excuse for MK to pull the oldest running soap opera in his mind, 'anti-Brahmin campaign'. this is so easy and has been used so often by him, no one takes it seriously except himself. he tried to say that the Brahmin dominated media is targeting the poor dalit boy, Raja. he even equated himself as some one from a backward family (only later to correct the same to claim that he was from a wealthy family so he had car even before he came to DMK,etc.,), but, that doesn't hold water any longer. this is based upon an argument of 70s when his party could convince most of Tamilnadu that all north indians were brahmins and they were against tamils. old, much battered and over used social theory whose fallacious foundations (of the dravidian-aryan nonsense) has been long since knocked out.
it is painful being Karunanidhi now, he himself no longer knows what he wants to be and what he wants people to think he is, both are overshadowed by the truth that most people seem to know what he is. he is shrewd enough to know that, but, it hurts i guess and the pain shows in his statements.
he has also mentioned that he is the only CM living in a 'street house' carefully not mentioning that almost the entire street belongs to his family.
the pain of knowing that your own daughter is openly discussing your inability to comprehend with PR agents, that the family has decided whoever is translating that day gets to determine your thinking, that all this is known to a few and now to the public (thanks to the Radia tapes), must be very bad.
MK had assumed even the 2G to be a family problem that no one took a note of, so, when there was a tiff between his son Azhagiri and the grand nephew Maran brothers (the owners of the largest media group in Southern India), he allowed the same to be resolved and grandly declared after the reunited family photo session was over that, 'there is no 2G Spectrum charges now'! glibly he had assumed that it was an issue that Maran brothers had raised due to the family feud and now it will stop as no one else knows and is interested. their media group dropped it, as they dropped campaign to bring to book those who killed the two ordinary people (maybe they were collateral damage in the family feud).
Subramaniam Swami being the one bringing in the charges gave easy excuse for MK to pull the oldest running soap opera in his mind, 'anti-Brahmin campaign'. this is so easy and has been used so often by him, no one takes it seriously except himself. he tried to say that the Brahmin dominated media is targeting the poor dalit boy, Raja. he even equated himself as some one from a backward family (only later to correct the same to claim that he was from a wealthy family so he had car even before he came to DMK,etc.,), but, that doesn't hold water any longer. this is based upon an argument of 70s when his party could convince most of Tamilnadu that all north indians were brahmins and they were against tamils. old, much battered and over used social theory whose fallacious foundations (of the dravidian-aryan nonsense) has been long since knocked out.
it is painful being Karunanidhi now, he himself no longer knows what he wants to be and what he wants people to think he is, both are overshadowed by the truth that most people seem to know what he is. he is shrewd enough to know that, but, it hurts i guess and the pain shows in his statements.
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