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A Knee Jerk Reaction... To A Weak-Kneed Operation |
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Just how much can a knee take of weak-kneed responses? The pressure on mine was too much, and it had to pack up. The specialist offered to repair the knee, but wanted to know if the I wanted only the knee treated? In any case, he said, I had so many inherent problems, no medical doctor could help, it needed spin doctors, specialists who could somehow nurse the battered and bruised Government into some semblance of convalescence. It has much to do with bending at the knee at the slightest hint of pressure. And all those calisthenics that the likes of K Sudarshan inflicts upon geriatrics. Even with khaki knickers on, you can't make them twist and swish without causing damage! They met and decided to make a fuss over the my knee, so the media would not dig deeper and find out what else was wrong. Of course, there's little even the best of doctors can do about the virulent strain of foot-in-mouth disease that afflicts the Government. Even as they're busy extricating their limbs from their mouths, they force knee jerk reactions upon me to given the Government a measure of dignity. There are several problems concerning that knee. And place the blame on the likes of Mamata Banerjee, who insists on bringing the Government to its knees each time an election in West Bengal looms on the horizon.  The bending at the knee syndrome became a serious malaise afflicting the body politic during this year of NDA rule. The Government absorbed each opportunity to do so. If it was not the hijackers in Kandahar, then it was the Hizb in Kashmir. If not Sudarshan then Bill Clinton. Obviously, something had to give.At the very least I could have been afforded a crutch to take some of the weight off his tired knees. Bangaru Laxman tried with all those honeyed words for the minorities of the country. That was before the RSS stepped in. The crutch of an economy that functions could also have helped. But there was so much confusion caused between Yashwant Sinha, Ram Naik and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch that you couldn't even keep those creaking joints oiled. Was it a surprise that Soli Sorabjee also had to have his knee operated upon? Considering the sort of hobbling attack Ram Jethmalani had launched upon him, the hospital was perhaps his safest sanctuary. Now that the former Law Minister has written a book will Sorabjee opt for local anaesthesia again? But then, can anyone actually make out the difference? Between a Government that seems to reside in the Emergency ward, is under the ether, or that outside, that still seems equally comatose though without any relevant excuse for such malingering? The doctor pronounced his operation successful, but presuming my style of governance would not change drastically, said what I really need was not so much a new knee, but Adva-knee, the Sardar Patella of the new India! RECENTLY ON JAAL: Faster, Higher, Stranger You Have The Right To Be A Volunteer The ICE ICE Baby A Tale Of The Jungle King The Secret Autonomy Report Report When Batsman Became Betsman India's Human Genome Projectile Stone Age Flaws In ICE Age Laws A Dry Spell For Policy Planning Lara's Theme Dotcom Bubble Gum: Burst Or Bust Inside A VIP Cell A To Do About Dos A Dress Code For Klintonji The author recently underwent prime ministering after an overt operation SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK ABOUT THIS ARTICLE:
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