I am reminded of this Sher
Published by Ravikiran Rao December 5th, 2003 in Political TheatreSaltanat e Shah Alam
az Dilli ta Palam
az Dilli ta Palam
The Sultanate of Shah Alam extends all the way from Delhi to Palam (then a village on the outskirts of Delhi.)
Shah Alam was one of the later Mughal “emperors”. I was reminded of this sher when reflecting on the state of the Congress party under Sonia Gandhi. Um.. Not because they have only managed to retain Delhi in the elections, but because the party in fact has a lot of similarity with a decaying empire.
Not too sure about that .. State Elections don’t necessarily reflect the LokSabha ones. Also the BJP tuned it’s mantra from Hindutva to performance this time. Mark Tully has a nice article about it on BBC.com me thinks .. will have to find it. May do a post on it.