Most Loathsome People In India: 2008
Friday, 5. December 2008 - 2:20 AM
The most eagerly awaited annual award of the Most Loathsome People in India is back again. After carefully considering suggestions from several of you folks gave during last year’s award ceremony, I have decided to modify the rules very slightly. This year onwards, I’m not restricting the number of the Most Loathsome to 10. The number will be as many as did fit the bill to qualify as Most Loathsome. That number stands at 16 this year. I shall also pronounce a sentence on each eminence (like the original that inspired this annual affair).
2008 has been an excessively tumultuous year with terrible events occurring at calamitous regularity. Equally, the Most Loathsome don’t disappoint. If anything, they competed in outclassing each other, which decidedly made my task tougher. Several names are new entrants to the contest but deservedly so.
While you may understandably differ, here’s my list of the 16 Most Loathsome People in India for 2008.
16. Achyutanandan: This unheard-of Kerala Chief Minister had to urgently advertise his gutter character and did so with gusto. And remained defiantly unrepentant. If I were to flatter myself, I’m sure he had perchance read my virgin Most Loathsome list for 2007 and gatecrashed into the party.
Sentence: Let loose all the stray dogs in Bangalore inside his house. Most of them are not vaccinated.
15. Shabana Azmi: The bleeding heart Islamo “feminist” who for once clearly defined Indian secularism to mean hatred of Hindus in return for all the good they do.
Sentence: Forced trip to Pakistan with a mandate to publicly take on a powerful Mullah like she did Imam Bukhari.
14. Somini Sengupta: Or how to spin industrial-scale yarns about India in the span of a few months. There’s no sewage hole she has not inspected, no community or caste she has left untarnished or no falsehood she has not propagated. Her accomplishments gave such a complex to even respected bloggers that one of them devised a cheat sheet in her honour. She stands at 15 not because she her quit the New York Times but because elevating her to a higher ranking would result in instant nausea, so vast is her trail of slime.
Sentence: Put her in solitary confinement and play audios of all her articles in an infinite loop.
13. Barkha Dutt: Where do I begin? Her rotten histrionics on TV–graver the incident, more putrid is her shrill verbal diarrhea.
Sentence: Insert burning charcoals down her throat.
12. Prakash Karat: Slid way down the ranking chart because he is next to irrelevant now. And it’s all his own doing. Enough said.
Sentence: Deportation to China.
11. Deve Gowda: Ditto, Prakash Karat. Unlike Karat, this sly old backstabber is known to “rise from the ashes.” A huge believer of witchcraft and sorcery, he is still furiously at work plotting the destruction of all his rivals, which include everyone apart from himself and his family. If local news sources are to be believed, his umpteenth proposal to share the bed with the Congress has been rebuked.
Sentence: Trick his son, Kumaraswamy into joining the RSS.
10. Christian Murderers of Swami Lakshmananda Saraswathi: One of the most barbaric crimes committed yet by the Missionary mafia in India. An 84 year old Hindu saint shot and then butchered in cold blood because he was one of the biggest hurdles in their invasive conversion capers.
Sentence: Pick the cruelest torture method detailed out in the medieval Inquisition texts and apply them on the killers.
9. Raj Thackeray: For unsuccessfully trying to replicate what his uncle did three decades ago. First timer here and deservedly so. What this moron doesn’t realize is that it is a million times harder to incite regional frenzy now than it was back then. Needless to say, all those who took part in the sponsored carnage weren’t “ordinary” Marathis but hoodlums from his own party. As that popular SMS puts it, the heroes who saved his “Marathi” Bombay weren’t “Marathi Manoos” but folks who put India and Indians before any Manoos as Raj would have us believe. Good luck at the polls, Raj, hope you get flogged at the booths.
Sentence: Send him to the badlands of Bihar alone and unarmed.
8. Karunanidhi: Truly, Stalin ka baap, pun intended. A traitor and separatist and proud of it. The number and magnitude of his misdeeds are locked in an unending race of oneupmanship. His haughtiness is matched only by his open tyranny. If politics is the last resort of a scoundrel, Karunanidhi says, “hey, you didn’t mention my name!”
Sentence: Indian-style wrestling match with Jayalalithaa with Ramadoss as the umpire.
7. U R Ananthamurthy: Gets better and better. New entrant. Jumps in right at #8. Currently writing Politicians and Litterateurs: How to be the Former while Pretending to be the Latter. Deve Gowda has already acquired publishing rights. 2008 is an year of singular importance in Ananthamurthy’s long and undistinguished career. His literary misadventures (actually there were none; meaningless newspaper columns don’t count as literature) backfired. The Kannada reading public rudely asked him to shut up several times. Furious, he solemnly swore “not to take part in any public literary functions.” Which allowed him to openly pursue what he was surreptitiously doing all these years: full time politicking. From thundering courageously against the JD(S)-BJP combine to even more thundering against the current BJP government, his weary limbs finally found solace in the aged but rugged arms of Deve Gowda. Shows enormous promise to move up the ranking ladder in 2009.
Sentence: Send him to heaven.
6. Amar Singh: The old pimp’s new colours. I don’t need to remind y’all of this brigand’s conduct during the nuclear deal.
Sentence: Forced marriage to Mamta Banerjee.
5. Rajdeep Turdesai: For ushering in a new era of rogue journalism. No wonder Tarun Tejpal/Tehelka couldn’t make it to this year’s list. Pseudosecular reporting is the very least of his sins. Turdesai’s actus reus is unbounded: instead of apologizing for his brazen volte-face during the nuclear deal sting operation, he wrote a cravenly piece on the lines of “yeah, too bad, these things happen.” And that after the BJP announced a boycott of his unethical news house.
Sentence: Mandatory attendance at full-day 4th Grade Moral Science classes for the rest of his life.
4. Karan Thapar: Fierce competitor to Turdesai for the 4th position but won by a narrow but convincing margin. While Turdesai is merely unethical, Karan Thapar is a suave knave. His well-researched talk shows conceal some sinister intents of the man that conducts them. Karan Thapar’s lack of ethics is abundantly complemented by his mephistophelean hint at political murder. “A sudden removal of Modi” is how he analyses an electoral result. This statement (desire?) alone clinches #4 in his favour.
Sentence: Henceforth every episode of Devil’s Advocate will show live flogging of Karan Thapar by Turdesai.
3. Shivraj Patil: Carries with him the eternal disgrace of sodomizing the ministry that was once graced by Sardar Patel. Demonstrated his incompetence with remarkable consistency throughout his tenure. No thanks to the UPA for finally ejecting the stubborn old turd from its bowels.
Sentence: Supplying snacks, tea and water at Pakistani Jihadi terror training camps for the rest of his life.
2. Manmohan Singh: For presiding over India’s political, security, economic, social, and communal disaster in record time. For mortgaging the Indian national interest in the international community. For being the carpet for members of his own Cabinet to tread over with their dirty shoes. For being the gutless wonder whose words the media dumps in favour of the pearls from the Crown Prince. No wonder his ranking has shot up from #10 to #2 in a year. Goes down as the kind of Prime Minister every country dreads having: pusillanimous, indecisive, powerless, and puppetish. A miserable excuse for a human being let alone a Prime Minister.
Sentence: You decide.
1. Sonia Gandhi: Manmohan Singh’s bosserina and string-puller. Her form of vile politics is unparalleled even by the legendary Indira Gandhi, whose deceptions were at least public. This reprehensible tyaag maata has perfected the art of playing snake-in-the-grass politics. She has accelerated the pace of the fracturing of Indian society by a few thousand kilometers per hour. Every obscenity in public life in the last four-plus years can be traced back to her in one way or the other. She eminently and undisputedly deserves her place at the top rank in the list of India’s Most Loathsome People for 2008.
Sentence: You decide.
Thank you, until next year!
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5. December 2008 - 5:29 AM
I would like to place the media in collective at # 1. That includes everyone from B. Dutt to Sardesai to Sanghvi and thapar et al. Granting them separate positions is reinforcing competetition among the thugs.
As for Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and mr. Patil and President Patil is there anything at all to decide except the absolute unanimous agreement on stupidity and incompetence.
Raj Thackeray could come in a close second to them.
Last but not the least I wish you give a thought to putting ‘us’ all the unwashed millions right on the top for being so absolutely knaive and unprepared to learn. In our famous tryst with destiny we were given 4 mantras- Secularism, non violence, mistrust of free enterprise and socialism. So powerful are these mantras that no matter what calamity strikes us, what untold disasters are wreaked on us we find comfort and solace in repeating these ad nauseam , though like all mantras, only few grasp the meaning. Such is their absolute power that even across the great political divide no party or individual can breach the boundaries of political correctness where these mantras are embedded.
Asa collective abstract these 4 mantras need to be there right at the top.
Ravi
5. December 2008 - 7:00 AM
Sandeep,
You forgot R. R. Patil of Maharashtra. During the Nunbai tragedy, Shahrukh Khan Ghost entered his body and he repeated the actor’s famous dialogue from DDLJ – “Bade Bade shaharon mein aise choti choti baatein hoti rahti hai”.
5. December 2008 - 9:09 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/index.html, reason why i like right wing media, they are consistent across border.
Deepak chopra should shut up indeed
5. December 2008 - 9:10 AM
check talking points 12/1
http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/index.html
5. December 2008 - 11:52 AM
Spot on
But, i guess 16 is too less a number to include all these vermins, especially in an year like this.
Other (dis)honourable mentions, in my opinion – SIMI, arundhati roy, vir sanghvi, sagarika ghose, teesta setalvad, mehbooba mufti, mulayam/laloo yadavs … etc etc. Most of these should perhaps be exalted to some sort of an Eternal Hall of Shame list, since their loathsomeness would last till perpetuity.
5. December 2008 - 12:54 PM
No fair!!! Karuna should be much higher in the list for the audacious things he has done
5. December 2008 - 1:07 PM
Hey sandeep, henge idiyaa? From my state UP I would like to nominate Kalraj Mishra, lalji tandon and mulayam singh yadav at #36,#37 and #38 respectively for not meeting the expectations of the people of UP.
Sentence: a 4-way gay angle in Dostana 2, directed by Terrorists-have-no-religion Aamir “show off” Khan
5. December 2008 - 1:11 PM
Did we all forget “BCCI” ??
5. December 2008 - 1:35 PM
My list would mirror yours, Sandeep, barring one exception. In my rankings for 2008 MLPI, #1 spot would go to greedy kashmiri muslim ingrates.
5. December 2008 - 11:00 PM
Sandeep, as I read down the list, it occurred to me that these exalted loathsome ones are there — up there in the higher reaches of power — not because they are loathsome but because someone put them up there.
Then I read Ravi’s comment (first in the list) where he says, “Last but not the least I wish you give a thought to putting ‘us’ all the unwashed millions right on the top for being so absolutely knaive and unprepared to learn.”
I agree. The top of the list has to be “You — the average Indian.” You are collectively the most loathsome because these others on the list are there because you — through your apathy, ignorance, stupidity, and general worthlessness — you allow this disasterous farce to go on without rising up in revolt and getting rid of them.
The sentence: that you will continue to be ruled by your even more worthless leaders.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
5. December 2008 - 11:11 PM
I was googling for blogs on the media and I came here…Ia greed with everything you said here and infact was quite surprised to read sanghvi’s article ( shameful) and was thankful to you for highlighting it….Till I figured out that you seem to be an out and out anti-congress( not that that’s a crime..they’re idiots)pro-bjp blogger…guilty of the same crimes you are accusing the media of.. I’m a hindu and proud of it..and I hate to see the anti-muslim tinge in your writing..would request you to go out and make a few muslim friends when you get a chance..you’ll find out that they’re also normal ppl like u and me who hate pakistan and the terrorism it sponsors..much as this is cliched..would request you to stop spreading the hate any further..((I know it’s ur persobal blog and all that..but imagine one misguided youth reading your blogposts and growing up hating all muslims…))
6. December 2008 - 12:19 AM
Atanu,
You put me in a fix. I both agree and disagree with you. Agree because “We” should be up there, at #1. However, given what Indians are, we need to define who this “we” is/are. The educated, thinking class who don’t vote but crib. The Most Loathsome are there in power because they are wiser: they depend on the illiterate/unwashed majority who get them the votes they need. The roots go back far in time when adult franchise was extended to the entire country at one go, instead of in stages.
6. December 2008 - 5:10 AM
Sandeep:
Exhibit A: The comment from pinochiyo69 above.
That says it all. That is why I think that “You — the Average Indian” is number 1 in the Most Loathsome list. The average Indian’s ability to reason is so degraded by the so-called “secular” education that they would not know reason if it comes and bites them on their behinds — or even it blows up their sorry behinds.
pinochyo69 epitomizes the average Indian. Now we have a name for them. Put that as numero 0 on the list. pinochyo’s tribe makes the rest of the list possible, headed by Sonia Gandhi. Let’s be very clear about one thing: no empty-headed person can occupy the most powerful position in India unless the people themselves have put her in there. That Sonia, a foreigner, rules India is a damning indictment of the slave mentality of the average Indian.
The average Indian is the Most Loathsome.
6. December 2008 - 7:16 AM
spot on and hilarious!
6. December 2008 - 10:25 AM
How’s your nose doing, Comrade Pinochyo69? Must be at least as long as a habano from Comrade Castro’s Cuba?
6. December 2008 - 11:23 AM
“I’m a hindu and proud of it..and I hate to see the anti-muslim tinge in your writing..”
Start reading some history books and begin to educate yourself about the pheonomenon of Islam that we are all facing and what its end-goals are. Start with Sita Ram Goel’s books. http://voiceofdharma.org/books.html
1,000 years of enslavement is a long-enough experience for Hindus to make the kind of statements you are making here. Clue-less Hindus are a huge threat to Indian civilisation.
6. December 2008 - 5:30 PM
not surprizing at all. get a new reader who sees somethings he agrees with and some he does’nt, and your gang jumps all over him to abuse him, headed by atanu. pinochoyo, this is their behavour.
6. December 2008 - 8:16 PM
I can’t help but agree with Ravi’s and Atanu’s line of thought. It is we who need to change. And to put it in the words of the father of the nation, “Be the change you want to see in this worldâ€. But till that actually happens, we’ll continue to top such lists as this one. The recent terror attack in Mumbai urged me to write something on similar lines on my own blog: http://lalitpatnaik.blogspot.com/2008/11/they-are-responsible.html
6. December 2008 - 9:46 PM
Comrade Pinochyo sheds his wooden frame, tries to evolve into a human being but only ends up being Comrade Aikath. What a shame.
7. December 2008 - 12:38 AM
Sandeep, you like to know your reaction on the antics of Narayan Rane. I guess your list came out before the bugger got all worked up over losing the CM’s post, else he would have merited a place on your list.
I would also propose the addition of
1.Mamata Banerjee — For single handedly killing the already comatose economy of West Bengal
2. Arundhati Roy — For her delusional rants against everyone apart from the adherents of the Religion of Peace (Piss)
3. Teesta Setalvad — No explanation needed.
7. December 2008 - 2:11 AM
Narayan Rane surely deserves to be on that list if it were to be expanded. But the real imbecile in this episode is already leading it. This episode epitomizes the Congress culture. Is this some banana republic or world’s largest democracy. The ‘Queen’ determines who rules the janata. Pathetic.
It is time people seriously consider Presidential form of govt. with strict term limits for India. That is only effective way to reduce the poisonous influence of Nehru-Gandhi family on Indian polity.
7. December 2008 - 4:48 AM
Pinochyo69:
Many muslims are good people. Till you ask them about 370, UCC, hajj subsidy, taking money from hindu temples and giving it to muslim orgs…
Their opinions on the above issues is what really concerns me, not their ability to serve me chai-paani-biskoot when I visit their home. Arguably, any of the “Most Loathsome” would serve me bigger biskoots in a fancier pilate…
7. December 2008 - 1:58 PM
My listof India most loathsome
Narendra Modi
L K Advani
Kanchan Gupta
Swapan Dasgupta
Balbir Punj
7. December 2008 - 3:30 PM
“My listof India most loathsome
Narendra Modi
L K Advani
Kanchan Gupta
Swapan Dasgupta
Balbir Punj”
I am sure your list of Most Admired would include:
Pol Pot
Stalin
Mao
Imam Bukharia
Safdar Nagori
7. December 2008 - 5:12 PM
Sandeep, Please make some room for my nomination of His Eminence Hon.Ramachandra Guha to your list of the most loathsome. It is surprising that a list of the most loathsome should exclude such a distinguished eminence, given that his eminence has never let go an opportunity to bare his pants and show his filth.
My reasons for nominating him are :
Ram Guha is the latest of the eminences to be thrown on to the face of an unsuspecting indian public as an “Eminent Historian”.
His eminences lie in resurrecting the ghost of Nehru, writing drivel that passes for history and hobnobbing with the naxalites even as he makes some cash from is favorite capitalists ( I am not naming nilekani specifically! ). This scum is at the forefront of an intellectual tradition that tries to play on the Muslim victimization thereby quashing any meaningful dialogue between the various communities of India .
Sentence :
To be locked up in solitary confinement in anada bhavan , Allahabad, with nothing but innumerable copies of “A History of India” and “Glimpses of World History” to keep his company. He can chew on them when he feels hungry.
7. December 2008 - 5:26 PM
I think the Human Resource Destruction Minister Arjun Singh need to be put some where in this list.
Sentence: to be hanged by left leg – upside down – by the pole bang opposite AIIMS. Well any place would do.
PI.
7. December 2008 - 7:59 PM
Atanu, Ravi, Lalit… I agree with you entirely. “I” am supposed to be #1. But my problem is how do I solve it! Every party, every politician, the system seems to be a product of the same seeds. I vote, everytime. A, B or C…. end result are similiar
The small pockets of goodness, professionalism are a great ray of hope.
-rajiv
[http://netanaap.appspot.com]
7. December 2008 - 10:09 PM
Your post will full of bigoted rantings.
My list would include
Narendra Modi
L K Advani
It would not include Shabana Azmi, PM Singh or Sonia Gandhi. You are simply lashing out illogically.
Shame on you
Joe
8. December 2008 - 12:43 AM
Joe, are you sure you are not being driven by the notorious Christian hatred of non-believers, to include in your list of terrorists / most loathsome anyone who articulates Hindu interests? White Christians do the same. Better be true to the salt of the land than imported gods.
8. December 2008 - 12:17 PM
Atanu,
Well, the “Us” are helpless. I vote for an educated and sensible guy during the elections. But my vote does not matter. I am outnumbered by someone from the slums who lives on free land, free electricity, pays no water tax or property tax, pays no road tax, and in most cases, benefits from the countless minority appeasement schemes.
The vote of the “educated, urban, middle class” is miniscule …
8. December 2008 - 12:27 PM
> You are simply lashing out illogically.
joe s, you mean you realized this just now? this blogg has been doing it for years.
you noticing that toward bottom of this page is a line “Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam”?
the author of that line himselff uses only on this page: “slime”, “putrid”, “insert burning charcoals down her throat”, “traitor”, “tyranny”, “pimp”, “brigand”, “turd”, “stubborn old turd”, “miserable excuse for a human being”. and his readers use: “bare his pants and show his filth”, “scum”, “imbecile”, “piss”, “slave mentality”.
this is “nice” and “clean” on this blogg.
8. December 2008 - 1:46 PM
Hi Shuvro, can you please add what Ot calls you, “Comrade”.
8. December 2008 - 1:46 PM
The Guy Who Calls Himself Shuvro Aikath,
You are free to stop visiting this blog. At the least it’ll keep you from getting worked up this way. Besides, it takes a lot of effort to keep masking your real identity, which BTW, I know.
8. December 2008 - 10:51 PM
>>Besides, it takes a lot of effort to keep masking your real identity, which BTW, I know
Try hard as I can, I am not able to guess who this fellow is, but he definitely doesn’t seem to be barbarindians blogger. Fake identities are ok. But impersonation is not.
8. December 2008 - 11:17 PM
>>but he definitely doesn’t seem to be barbarindians blogger
OT, you are right. Send me an offline email.
Thanks!
9. December 2008 - 12:40 AM
Thanks a lot for the clarification OT.
I too was puzzled by Aikath’s assertion that he was the owner of that blog, while it always seemed to me that the troll posting here was contradicting what was on the blog (Socialism is immoral, media guys are p1m^& etc.).
9. December 2008 - 10:32 AM
well compiled and aptly summarized each of the greedy, ungrateful wretches who have been occupying page 1,2,3 or wherever they find space – including the sports page – no wonder we find ourselves in the dumps in sports, after all almost ALL of our sporting bodies have been filled with corrupt and utterly disgraceful people!
I agree with URAnanthmurthy being an absolute headless wonder, but, I believe he has more competition. I urge you to revisit this list. there’s a lot of trash in India fighting for the top spot here.
9. December 2008 - 12:55 PM
hai
9. December 2008 - 8:28 PM
Even I have wondered about this guy – Aikath who keeps on trolling here and vomits all his stupid comments – cannot be barbarindian who has such clear arguments and a fantastic visual sense.
9. December 2008 - 8:54 PM
What crap……Typical RSS …..Manmohansingh is fool!!!….media is idiot (just because barkhas and rajdeeps of teh world speak bitter truth !!)……and Narendra modi is gods gift to mankind…wow..!! I wont be surprised if peopele like you go and strt attacking and killing journalists tommorow just because they dont speak your crooked version of truth !!!Thankfully the average Indian is much wiser than this idiots and given a tight slap to them on thr face in the recent elections!!!
10. December 2008 - 3:49 AM
“Thankfully the average Indian is much wiser than this idiots and given a tight slap to them on thr face in the recent elections!!!”
This argument is a hoax. Congress is on a very weak wicket. BJP has comfortably romped home in Madhya Pradesh and chattisgarh (against the combined might of church / naxals / congress / communists).
Rajashtan is BJP’s defeat due to 67 rebels that fought against it. Though the rebels did not manage to win themselves, they cut into BJP’s share, benefitting congress. Even then, BJP is only 18 seats short of Congress in a 200 seat assembly. Congress has not got a clean majority either and is not approaching independents for support.
Delh is electorally insiginificant, with just 7 lok sabha seats. It is on the same plane as Goa, Mizoram and Pondicherry.
However, the clever trick Congress’ paid whores in English media are playing is that they are focussing exclusively on Delhi to the exclusion of all other states (as if MP and Chattisgarh are non-entities). Some idiots who get taken in by this trick now claim the elections were a “Congress landslide” and a “tight slap” to BJP. This is nothing but self-delusion.
10. December 2008 - 2:38 PM
What you need to be worried about, Comrade Saxena, is the fact that Chattisgarh voters have endorsed Salwa Judum. That doesn’t augur well for criminals like Binayak Sen.
10. December 2008 - 6:03 PM
10. December 2008 - 6:13 PM
“and i have been listening the name of Binayak sen or Salwa Judum for teh first time”
This kind of shocking ignorance in a grown-up Indian doesn’t augur well for this nation’s future either.
10. December 2008 - 6:16 PM
Saxena Jee:
Pls spend some time reading some books on this site:
http://voiceofdharma.org/books.html
10. December 2008 - 7:21 PM
I have read BhagvadGita and Upnishadas when I was 9 ..Many verses from them have been guiding light to me ….But the first look at the books on your site tells me that they are opinionated ..they are written to drive home a point ….what different is that than the Taliban’s using Islam to prove their point….?? Its just like watching a crude remake of a classic…Any religion (including the wahabi islam or Clu clux clan Christians or the RSS brand of Hindutva ) which preaches violence or tries to prove that only they are Gods gift to mankind is not a religion for me ..its just a few people trying to hide the animal inside under the facade of religion …be it osamas or bushes or modis of the world (again I see we are losing the context of the original topic though ..:)
10. December 2008 - 8:07 PM
Welcome mr. Saxena,
I do not know what you have read, when you say: “I have read BhagvadGita and Upnishadas when I was 9“, but it is safe to say that your understanding is superficial and your conclusions are incorrect. This is because of your statement “what different is that than the Taliban’s using Islam to prove their point”.
Also, when you are painting towering intellectuals like Aurobindo, along with others (in the above mentioned website) in a broad stroke of “opinionated ..they are written to drive home a point“, then it is a good idea to read more, and perhaps think more, and argue less.
10. December 2008 - 8:46 PM
10. December 2008 - 8:53 PM
>>…and i have been listening the name of Binayak sen or Salwa Judum for teh first time
Lucky you, Comrade Saxena, lucky you. There are right now many squared off and cubed out commies mourning their loss in Chattisgarh, and here you are, who heard the names of killers like Binayak Sen for the first time! Hopefully that will be the last time as well, because the bluff that Salwa Judum has no popular support has been called; but commies being thick-skinned commies, you never know.
10. December 2008 - 9:53 PM
Nihil Sahib:
Some people can be quite emphatic on the basis of insufficient knowledge. Pls don’t join their category. Read more and calm down.
10. December 2008 - 11:24 PM
11. December 2008 - 5:54 AM
11. December 2008 - 7:53 AM
It is interesting that RSS is attacked by every other secular prick eventhough almost nothing is known about what exactly they are and what exactly they do. Often, the organisation is equated with terrorist Muslim organisations without actually bothering to quote what acts of terror they have actually committed.
Sandeep, it is very important and a very good idea to devote considerable time to “Most Admirable People in India” as well, as a follow-up. I believe it is upto us to turn the tide and talk about the good people we still have with us and generate a positive vibe.
Almost all of us know the bad guys here. Lets keep our date with the good guys as well.
11. December 2008 - 1:31 PM
Nice list. I’ve got speeches for two of your candidates (Karat & Karunanidhi) here…
http://www.rameshsrivats.net/2008/12/100-word-election-speeches-part-2.html
11. December 2008 - 3:37 PM
Nikhil,
Any list created by any individual will be opinionated, simply because it reflects that individual’s opinion. I fail to see how an objective list can be created for the most loathsome people in India and get everyone to agree on it.
You will have to come up with parameters that characterize loathsomeness, assign weights to those parameters, and then evaluate points to individuals based on those parameters in an attempt to make the entire exercise objective. However, even that won’t make the exercise totally objective. Let me know if you aware of any other process to make such a list non opinionated and totally objective.
11. December 2008 - 3:42 PM
Sandeep,
!
Comrade Aikath has not written any more comments on this post, ever since you hinted about being aware of his true identity. Wonder what the big secret is
Obviously the barbarindians identity that he uses is fake, but then what is a communist without duplicity and deceit!
13. December 2008 - 11:41 AM
It’s funny how you didn’t have anything to say for Narendra Modi. From the writings that I have been going through on your blog, it seems to me that you are pseudo-secular right-wing Sangh Parivar supporter. Kudos on that. My father happens to be belonging to VHP in Bombay. He is the vice president of VHP, Mumbai.
Having said all that- also having considered the fact that the Gujarat CM is the best performing chief minister in the history of Indian state politics, Gujarat is the least corrupt state of India, Gujarat’s GDP is larger than many African and Asian countries- but please do not live in the denial of the fact that Modi is a LITTLE BIT responsible for the Gujarat carnage of 2002. Please let him accept his mistakes and don’t sweep away the dust of the BJP under the carpet. he is literally unbeatable right now and he could possibly be the next prime minister of India in 2013 general elections. Still he is one of those loathed politicians who doesn’t give any shit about Indian muslims and continue to communal-ise the already heavily communal-ised state of Gujarat.
Good day.
13. December 2008 - 9:38 PM
Yeah Suyashh,
Prove that LITTLE BIT responsibility, please. There are UPA thugs who bear a whole lot of proven responsibility for a HELL lot more (like Kaangress for slaughtering sikhs, allowing bomb blasts all over by going soft on SIMI etc). Modi does not give a shit about muslims OR hindus, and that is the way to go. It so happens that not giving a shit about muslims or hindus naturally tends to favour the hindus and muslims who work, and dont waste their lives on madrassa “teachings”. That is why gujaratis love Modi. Even muslims. Modi has brought prosperity to Gujarat.
14. December 2008 - 6:16 AM
My vote goes to Raj Thackaray. He has been just amazing this past year.
22. December 2008 - 10:52 PM
Well written.
Just wish you were a little more level headed and had a wider perspective.
27. December 2008 - 6:34 PM
Please add the following:
Laloo Prasad Yadav
1) Teesta Setalvad
2) Arundhati Roy
3) Mayawati
4) Jayalalita
5) Y.Rajasekhara Reddy
6) Arjun Singh
7) Sitaram Yechury
28. December 2008 - 9:47 PM
@Kedar,
Good idea about the Admirable People List.
Modi
Shourie
Ramdev
Frawley
Elst
Knapp
Gautier
….
Sandeep
31. December 2008 - 12:08 PM
I’m not fan of the VHP and RSS but all the people who are mad at Sandeep don’t really understand that this is also supposed to be comedy.
So take it with a grain of salt people, jeez.
6. January 2009 - 11:48 PM
Nice list, Sandeep. But you forgot Arundhati Roy. She deserves a place. And yes, like a commentor said, Raj Thackeray would be Number One.
16. December 2009 - 9:57 PM
Brilliant list!
By the way, chaps like Suyash Gupta/Nikhil (whose comments appear above) are pathetic — one of them even lied that his father is a VHP leader, just to lend credence to his rabid rant! Now I wonder what to believe about them — it is possible that Ahmed from Lahore or Dsouza from the vatican has posted these comments under Indian-sounding names!
Thanks Sandeep, and look forward to more.