This post is courtesy an inspiration I got from this superb list of (deservedly) loathsome public figures in the US (thanks, Atanu).
I don’t have time or patience to do brief, dirty-writeups on fifty most loathsome public figures of India. I’m limiting that number to just ten.
You might disagree with my selections….
10. Manmohan Singh
Loathsome for a solitary reason: spinelessness. Everything else flows from there. Decency is not equal to cowardice. This accidental Prime Minister persists in pusillanimity despite just calls for resignation.
9. Musharraff
Admitted, he’s not an Indian but let’s give him a place in this hall because he was relevant till recently. A word suffices why he is loathsome: opportunism.
8. Girish Karnad
A bounteous intellectual career built by raping classics in the garb of literary freedom demolished by repeatedly scoring lamentable self-goals. The shameful volte face on the Bababudangiri/Datta Peeta issue pried his integrity–the lack of it–wide open. And he should have really not tried to save Tipu Sultan’s secular credentials. Tipu wasn’t around when Karnad’s bottom was irreparably thwacked. Karnad shouldn’t have invited people to loathe him.
7. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
He should have retired in silence after Khamoshi, his only intelligible movie till date. Much superior ink has been employed to show why this non-director invites our collective puke.
6. Shahrukh Khan
Just how does one get to and get away with being called King? The answer is Shahrukh Khan. He stretches the boundaries of Paid Praise beyond nausea. Together with Karan Johar, he has expensively reduced filmmaking standards to a new low. Here’s just the latest crap: a million bucks to anybody who can tell me what dard-e-disco means.
5. Shilpa Shetty
Or how to use phony grief to compensate a dead “acting” career with easy money. Her manufactured sorrow over the racism charge apart, she mouthed that a trashy show like Celebrity Big Brother was a great opportunity to “make India proud.” An out-of-work “actress” trying to honour her country by doing…I’m not sure if winning CBB is an achivement of any consequence. Shilpa Shetty deserves only our unmitigated contempt.
4. Tarun Tejpal/Tehelka
Or the sting that never stung. His game was over the moment he began to “justify” the “expose.” The Gujarat “expose” is the filthiest evidence of what he really is: a political parasite. That in itself wouldn’t qualify him for our loathing. He is a dangerous political paraiste. Even there, that’s not because of his sleazy links with the ISI and similar outfits but more because he is a conscientious liar. He deserves more than mere loathing.
3. The Indian Media
A million faceless Tarun Tejpals. The English language media in India commonly does disservice to democracy and is bereft of principles–there is no other way to say this. Ever since the crawling experience during the Emergency, the media has realized that it is both safe and rewarding to open its legs.
2. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
I’m almost tempted to call him the Nero of Nandigram. He nullified all valiant attempts of his talented spin doctors to project him as an industry-friendly visionary, etc. In Nandigram, this Buddha showed exactly what he understood by (Marxist) Enlightenment.
1. Deve Gowda
I’m a little passionate about my state so Deve Gowda is my obvious choice to fill the top slot. Gowda’s self-righteous conviction of his own invincibility has cost him excessively. He holds a nearly-unbeatable record of a hugely successful career in treachery. In three years, he has destroyed Bangalore by doing nothing. He has pushed the state back by more than a decade by mortgaging it to the welfare of his family. His unique knack for stifling any good has given Karnataka 3 chief ministers in 3 years. His place at #1 will be pretty firm the next time I make this list.
75 Comments on “10 Most Loathsome People in India: 2007”
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Gujjubhai:
Thanks very much. I am very grateful that you like my modest blog. I hope to continue writing — can do little else but point out the flaws in the system.
Shuvro Aikath:
My sincere condolences to you — sorry you find reality hard to swallow. Happens to the best of the idiot pseudo-secularists. Just grin and bear it, would you, you sniveling moron.
Posted on December 24, 2007 at 9:51 PM.
Sardar Bains:
I am sorry that Manmohan Singh is a Sikh. The Gurus would have wept. Manmohan and Montek should be stripped of the “Singh” — they don’t measure up to it.
Posted on December 24, 2007 at 9:56 PM.
oooops i forgot “sniveling moron.”
why do i think this is language of losers, not winners? because these are losers here.
Posted on December 24, 2007 at 10:02 PM.
This list seems quite biased.
How can you miss
L K Adwani.
Posted on December 24, 2007 at 10:14 PM.
“Talking of Sengupta, has anyone pondered why the Bongs are over-represented among journalists and “intellectuals†when it comes to MoLos? ”
Many of these Bongs are intellectual mercenaries who would sell their mother down the river for a tenure or an invitation to a conference. Its just business, since left-libs control the academia they are left leaning.
Posted on December 25, 2007 at 1:50 AM.
Shuvro,
You may have problem with certain words from dictionary or word-constructions, but I don’t see its connection to “our party having won” or lost etc. If you’ve misgivings at their usage at certain places in the comments then just let each one know and I am sure most will be glad to explain the necessity.
The larger issue here is the systematic and sustained campaign of hate conducted by the stars of English media, and the appalling mendacity in their handling of basic truths that even a blind man can tell apart. Calling it unprofessional would be understatement of year. What most people witnessed was nothing short of lethal brew consisting of the worst of Goebbelsian techniques aimed at manufacturing dissent.
Now, post poll, one would think they would wise up but apparently the secular media has bid adieu to any semblance of propriety and continues with its venomous agenda. If you don’t see the danger of their folly to India’s discourse or still prefer to juxtapose it for sake of moral equivalency then that is your choice.
For myself, I believe that severe, no holds barred expose is not only warranted but justified. Muslims and Christians have the luxury of violence and outside money to buttress their side. I don’t want Hindus to be robbed of the simple convenience of vocabulary. Cheers!
Posted on December 25, 2007 at 3:18 AM.
I’m disappointed by Barbarindian’s( Shuvro Aikath) commments.
It’s not really him commmenting, or if it’s really him, I don’t understand the I-am-a-cool-dude tone of his comments.
I’ve never felt so much emotion for a political event before. NEVER. I’ve never felt so politically involved.
The emotion was not so much happiness for Modi’s victory, but satisfaction at the blackening of the faces of the pseudo-secular media and later, anger at their continued denying to him his rightful victory.
I was infuriated by the attitude of news anchors like Sagarika Ghose, Barkha Dutt and ArnOb Goswami. They were denying Modi his victory by looking for excuses to run him down.
“It’s a victory for Modi, not the BJP”
“BJP under threat”, “defeat for RSS”…..
So,Shuvro Aikath, please understand the context of the abusive words. I fully empathise with socal and Gujjubhai when they use expletives.
Posted on December 25, 2007 at 10:55 AM.
Best “throw in the towel” line came out of a poker faced Burka Dutt,
“Modi might win but he still won’t get the visa to the US.”
Booohoohoo, whatta bunch of over emoting losers.
Posted on December 25, 2007 at 3:05 PM.
My list :
10)SRK (shit actor)
9)Amitabh Bachchan (over commericalized bitch, Sholay remake is all I have to say)
8)Salman Khan (shit actor with a rap sheet)
7)Abhishek Bachchan (shittier acter)
6)Manmohan Singh
5)Manoj Kumar (I thought this fucker was dead)
4)Karan Johar
3)Narender Modi (mass murdering hindu terrorist and guju scum)
2)Bal Thackeray (a living breathing piece of shit who needs a bullet to the balls)
1)The bjp faggot who runs this site
Posted on December 26, 2007 at 5:11 PM.
1) to 10) Narendra Modi
[he deserves landslide victory in this one too. And, the persons from 2 to 9 are wearing the modi-mask]
Posted on December 27, 2007 at 7:36 PM.
and talking about mass murders by Narendra Modi, please dont forget that the 58 hindus who got killed in the sabarmati express died in his regime too. so much for safety of the hindus!
Do you guys want free modi-masks? Gujarat looks really different through them i promise.
Posted on December 27, 2007 at 7:39 PM.
My list on my blog page.. awesome idea Sandeep, my list very similar to yours. You are welcome to comment.
Posted on December 27, 2007 at 11:09 PM.
^^^^^
TROLL ALERT!!
Posted on December 27, 2007 at 11:29 PM.
The extent to which these secular jihadis have stoked the fire hatred for Modi among real jihadis, concerns me deeply. Heaven forbid if a jihadi so much as even touches Modi, the Hindu wrath will befall the secularists first and foremost.
Posted on December 28, 2007 at 1:23 AM.
Hindu Wrath, Socal? Like killing an Australian missionary and his two children in broad daylight? BJP monkeys ought to locked up in electrified cage.
Posted on December 28, 2007 at 7:24 AM.
Chimp, Staines wasn’t killed in broad daylight. He was killed in the night. Poor dude departed for greener pastures while asleep.
Posted on December 28, 2007 at 1:01 PM.
1 to 10 should all be hindu gujjus. No community as loathsome was ever seen. Their hatred for Muslims is due to their vegitarianism, which causes their boys to be bashed up by muslim ones in school, and leaves their girls noticeably uglier than their muslim counterparts. These experiences leave permanent scars that they carry into adulthood.
Posted on December 29, 2007 at 11:40 AM.
Wrong O Shit Sainik. He was murdered along with his 2 children in the early afternoon as his car was set ablaze.
Posted on December 29, 2007 at 2:39 PM.
Sandeep,
You need to do some cleaning.
Posted on December 30, 2007 at 12:02 PM.
My top 10 would be something like Gujjubhai’s (above). People who are doing real damage to India, like Teesta, A Roy, John Dayal, Cedric Prakash etc should be included, SRK, Shetty etc may be a$$holes in their own right, but do not really damage India.
Posted on January 6, 2008 at 7:16 AM.
Your blog subtitle says “rescuing public discourse”. And you have three actor/directors and a non-entry in Musharraf. Gives us some idea about what you mean by public discourse. As for the actors, what they are doing is purely out of selfish interests and not indulging in any moral posturing. These guys are entertainers - good or bad. Nothing more. Including them in a most loathsome list is paying them more attention than they ever need to AND patently wrong.
Not including anyone from either side of the fundamentalist faction is something you might have done intentionally to make the list more plausible and palatable to yourself.
P.S.: A lyrics writer is not the same person as the actor on whom the song is being filmed and both of these persons are different (usually) from the playback singer who sings it.
Posted on June 21, 2008 at 1:46 AM.
I would like to comment that, most of the Indian Media is politically biased and immature, especially when it comes to BJP rules states they are surprisingly misleading the readers and viewers in this country. Infact, in my true knowledge BJP ruled states are doing well in many aspects if not all compare to other states.We know that there is not a single news paper or visual media which is not run by a family in this country.If you consider CNN-IBN it is the most visibly biased visual media channel ever India have seen, so obsessed with Gandhi dynasty,Rajdeep and his Wife Sagarika is totally after Narendra Modi and BJP. If Modi sneezes it is a headline story in CNN-IBN!.if you consider NDTV PRANNOY ROY is trying his best to be a pseudo-secularist. But if we closely watch each of their programs it is increasingly getting biased and a person with common sense can understand what is going on behind the scene.Prannoy Roy and Barkha Dutta believes they are the only intellectuals left in this country!.If you look at the news papers, we know the history of Indian express. What role Goenka played in Indian politics utilizing his family run news paper business.Vir Sanghvi of Hindustantimes ( Late KK Birla is a staunch congressman) is all the way praising Sonia as if his career itself is pledged for that cause. A fair exemption can be made for Times of India ,I don’t know If I am correct.Otherwise there is a serious conspiracy going on this country by these new founded intellectual Pseudo Secularists.We must be able to differentiate what is right and what is wrong as these channels are targeting young urban population mixing news with bit of masalas and Tabloid especially the Hip-hop culture. They are not aware that their credibility and neutrality is being lost infront of the masses.In India Media ethics is a neglected truth.It is the era of family run businesses for personal and political gains.In the name of freedom of speech they are misleading the people to make thier own profit and gains.Who care where this will lead the country to?????
I may be dubbed as a fundamentalist because of my comments,that is the new trend prevail in India.But reality bites and people should analyze the news particles coming to them before believing in it.Because for many ,it affects thier intellectual behaviour. There should be some accountability of the Media institutions in this country and we the Citizens are responsible for that.Please Beware
Posted on September 19, 2008 at 11:53 PM.
Well..I disagree with the Molo list of 2007..
Why should a person be most loathsome..??? Only one factor should be the decisive factor: he/she/it is doing a large scale disservice to our nation.
So what harm has Sanjay Leela Bhansali/Shahrukh Khan done to the collective masses..?? No, I’m not a pseudo secularist or a great fan of Shahrukh Khan..But the point here is that they are not important enough to be considered when there are so many others who are actually weakening us at the roots..
Similar with Musharaff..He’s not important enough. Even if he changed his anti India stance, he won’t be able to change the collective psyche of Pakistani military and extremists.
The list must reflect people/organizations, which we can make certain that if they don’t exist, our nation will be much better off.
I don’t know the order. But my list has is adorned by these glaring examples of people who hold Indian passports but are more dangerous than a nuclear bomb for India:
1) Karunanidhi ( for his tamil chauvinism)
Arjun Singh (obvious reasons)
2) Mayawati+Devegowda+Raj Thakre+ Yadav duo(Mulayam+Laloo) ( for his divisive and corrupt politics)
3) Sonia Gandhi aka INC ( for pseudo secularism and nepotism)
4) Indian Media ( for its partisan coverage and unending anti-Hinduism stance, insensitive journalism towards millions of Indian poor)
5) NDTV and CNNIBN ( for being Congress party’s unofficial mouthpiece)
6) Indian Communists ( for their hypocrisy and pro-china/anti-Bharat ideology)
7) Likes of Teesta Seetalvad/Shabana Azmi/Javed Akhtar
9) SIMI
10)Manmohan Singh ( for the Nuke deal. He has mortgaged India’s nuclear arsenal to US)
Please post more replies..And where can I find the nominations and voting for MoLo Awards 2008..???
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