After posting it, I got to thinking that that was not my original idea, that it must have been triggered by something I read somewhere. Further probing reveals that, sure it was.

Here is what triggered my thought, and paradoxically it was the on the Hussain controversy:

Weak to the Strong, Strong to the Weak

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2108/stories/20040423007612700.htm

Vajpayee is now compared to Hitler.

I have a measurement system for sizing up leftwing lunatics. This unit is called “bidwai”. A single bidwai is so power-packed that the overwhelming majority of leftwingers need a smaller scale of mesurement in order not to develop complexes. (In fact, a single bidwai is often called Fulla-bidwai.) To give a not so apt analogy: would you step in a jewellery shop that sold gold by the kilogram?

Hence: millibidwais. “45.75 millibidwais”, “127 millibidwais”, etc. N. Ram for example measures at 329 millibidwais. Prem Shankar Jha of Outlook started at 122 millibidwais, but he has been gaining bidwai-weight of late, and is currently weighing in at 323 millibidwais, only a notch below N.Ram. Arundhati Roy is a class apart, she is almost 970 millibidwais — which is as good as a Fulla-bidwai! Dilip D’Souza, who used to publish in Rediff, peaked at 677.45 millibidwais once, his personal record that unfortunately he has not been able to attain again. Age is catching up with Kuldip Nayar: better times have seen him posting a decent 155 millibidwais.

If you know people who have impressive vital stats — in the bidwai dimension — please do let me know.

I’ve read Arun Shourie’s “Weak to the Strong…” and it’s very apt.

Raghu Reddy,

But of course, no one except Arundhati Roy can come close to Bidwai. But she’s in a different league.

Alka,

Like Darpan says, the secularists will not speak up. They have been saved by Hussain

Secondly of course, the full range of her lunacy cannot be captured in one dimension. It will have to be a vector in n-dimensional space.