Black Face; Pink Chaddi next, Mr. Muthalik???

“What goes around comes around,” said Arnab Goswami in his trademark straightforward and sincere style. And watching the start of the Timesnow Thursday Newshour I wondered, “What could Arnab be talking about?” Soon I had the answer. He was mentioning the “much awaited” retort in Bangalore where Pramod Muthalik’s face was blackened by a couple of activists in public! Wow! What a sight! Seeing that infamous madman seethe with anger and writhe with non-physical pain, in public, was a pure delight! The master molester was getting paid back in his own coin; the notorious self-styled moral police was getting a fitting public rebuttal; the self proclaimed reformist was being forced to taste his own medicine!

And Muthalik’s public predicament and expected defiance made me think deeper, the devil’s workshop – my mind – at its efficient best! After a Black Face, may be a Pink Chaddi next for Mr. Muthalik?! He forced to wear the Pink Chaddi in the same manner Superman would have preferred! This janta’s gesture would have cemented his desire to be “macho” which he and his men had manifested so unabashedly in Mangalore last year!

Thank you, India, for waking up and standing up to a militant like Muthalik! … Muthalik, Murdabad!

Happy Valentine's Day to all :)

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“What goes around comes around,” hearing Arnab Goswami say the adage in his trademark straightforward and sincere style made me ponder that no other news anchor would have displayed this kind of deep and genuine feeling while reporting a news story – a horrific story of public abuse of young women by a bunch of hooligans a year ago. My admiration for him grew a few notches more.