{"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

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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

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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},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWretched - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/wretched\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wretched - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I love our politicians. Such things they say. Here’s Bal Thackeray, announcing his support for Pratibha Patil: 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. Quite. 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