{"id":5440,"date":"2007-06-26T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2007-06-26T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T18:56:00","slug":"wretched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/wretched\/","title":{"rendered":"Wretched"},"content":{"rendered":"
I love our politicians. Such things they say. Here’s Bal Thackeray, announcing his support<\/a> for Pratibha Patil:<\/p>\n It is Maharashtra’s fortune that a Marathi woman is for the first time becoming the President. Those opposing it should be termed as wretched.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Quite. Ms Patil, by the way, supported Indira Gandhi after the Emergency<\/a>. A bank she set up had its license revoked by the RBI in 2003 for “alleged financial irregularities”, for reasons the Indian Express<\/i> documents here<\/a>—among them are waivers of loans to her relatives.<\/p>\n But oh, we mustn’t bring that up, she’s Marathi and all of Maharshtra must be proud of her. Otherwise we’re wretched.<\/p>\n Also read<\/b>: “The Politics of Division.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love our politicians. Such things they say. Here’s Bal Thackeray, announcing his support<\/a> for Pratibha Patil:<\/p>\n It is Maharashtra’s fortune that a Marathi woman is for the first time becoming the President. Those opposing it should be termed as wretched.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Quite. Ms Patil, by the way, supported Indira Gandhi after the Emergency<\/a>. A bank she set up had its license revoked by the RBI in 2003 for “alleged financial irregularities”, for reasons the Indian Express<\/i> documents here<\/a>—among them are waivers of loans to her relatives.<\/p>\n But oh, we mustn’t bring that up, she’s Marathi and all of Maharshtra must be proud of her. Otherwise we’re wretched.<\/p>\n\n
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