Call them three musketeers who dared to speak to tell the truth and in return got unprecedented backlash in the country of Mahatma Gandhi who stood for nothing but the truth. The men in question are Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh and the BJP chief Nitin Gadkari. They all stated what were accepted to be truth in the public domain but faced unbridled attack to the extent that they were all called names.
First thing first. No one in their right frame of mind expected India to win the T20 world cup. The Indian players were not only spoiled by the gruelling IPL, which lasted for one and a half months, but also faced total burn out. The IPL late night party which lasted till the dawn will not figure in the itinerary of any sports management but only in the IPL, which is nothing but crass commercial exploitation of cricket. Dhoni had remarked before he headed for the Caribbeans that he had never been to such IPL parties but the same could not have been true for others. The body language of Indian cricketer's appeared to be nothing but of a dull lot out there to party at the beaches in the Caribbeans with little regards for millions of fans' expectations. Dhoni is absolutely right and he showed the guts that he call a spade a spade and suffers no insecurity.
The cricket crazy nation paid no interest to the exploits of Indian hockey players who showed unexpected performance in the Azlan Shah trophy. No wonder why these people are the poor lots.
The BJP president Nitin Gadkari is a raw politician and has not yet honed his skills for shrewed political talks. He talks straight. That is why the RSS has picked him for the post. He literally called the Samajwadi Party and RJD president Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav "dogs licking the heels of the Congress" to use a Hindi phrase. The political observers will not find any lack of truth in the statement. The SP and RJD leaders acn fall at the feet of the top Congress leaders any other day and both are facing serious charges for amassing assets beyond their income. However, Mr Gadkari was hauled like anything.
Lastly, Mr Ramesh has always been a politician not known to follow the established political diktats. First, he called the ceremonial robes worn at the times of taking college degrees a colonial legacy. That is true. All will agree. Then he went on to deliver the bombshell on the Chinese soil that the Indian internal security managers are a paranoid lot when it comes to deal with the issue concerning the Chinese. This is also true. Mr Ramesh also was hauled up. Mr Ramesh had earlier cut Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit to size for all her "achievements", which he called were due to judicial activism. That was true but that time has was saved as he had attacked a lesser mortal.
To cut a long story short, the Indian Psyche is far detached from tolerating a blunt truth. The exponents are banished with no loss of time. Dhoni, Gadkari and Ramesh bring freshness, which hopefully will not wither away amidst all attacks launched at them
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