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EPISODE – XXXII
TOPIC: PM Narendra Modi’s pit stop in Pakistan: Birthday bumps for Nawaz Sharif and a possible honeymoon
BLOG: India Times
WRITER: Swagato Ganguly
GENRE: Blogging
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Besides a famous West Asian man (Jesus Christ), many of South Asia’s illustrious (distinguished) men – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Mohammad Ali Jinnah (although some would call him the Antichrist), Nawaz Sharif – were born on 25 December.
Last year education minister Smriti Irani used that fact to unfortunate effect – when she tried to get schools to observe ‘Good Governance Day’ on Christmas on the ground that it was also Vajpayee’s birthday – and promptly came to be known as the Grinch (a spoilsport or kill joy) who stole Christmas.
This time round, however, Irani’s boss – Prime Minister Narendra Modi – is spreading some Christmas cheer by hopping over (jump through) to Lahore to greet his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, on his birthday. The chill between India and Pakistan had been broken when Modi and Sharif shook hands on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit and the two sides agreed to resume talks. Modi’s Lahore visit should now contribute to a conducive (If one thing is conducive to another thing, it makes the other thing likely to happen.) atmosphere for the talks.
No longer can they say about Modi, now, that he is a peripatetic (If someone has a peripatetic life or career, they travel around a lot, living or working in places for short periods of time) prime minister who left Pakistan out of his map. It’s thus an adroit (adept) diplomatic ambush of his baiters(A person, who intentionally posts something offensive or ridiculous, enjoying how some people will start raging on him), both in India and in Pakistan.
Nevertheless Congress is mad, and for a good reason. For years Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had wanted to visit Pakistan, but was held back largely by fear of what BJP would say. Modi, in particular, would have savaged (extremely cruel) him – he famously attacked the UPA government for serving “chicken biryani” to the visiting Pakistani PM soon after an Indian soldier was beheaded on the border.
But that’s the ‘Nixon advantage’ right wing leaders have – it’s precisely the hawkish (Journalists use hawkish to describe politicians or governments who are in favour of using force to achieve something, rather than using peaceful and diplomatic methods.) head of state who can reach out and make peace, without fear that his flexibility will be mistaken for weakness.
Word is that, besides attending Sharif’s birthday, Modi might also drop in at the wedding of Sharif’s granddaughter – named, deliciously, Mehrunnisa. Perhaps, with his eye for telling metaphor, Modi could invite her over for her honeymoon to inspect the handiwork of the progeny of the husband of another, very illustrious Mehrunnisa in south Asian history – the Taj Mahal in Agra. And that might well betoken (indicate, signal) a honeymoon between India and Pakistan.
But wait. Before rosy visions of consummation (You use consummate to describe someone who is extremely skilful. ), don’t forget to wish happy birthday to another Sharif as well – General Raheel Sharif. Too many peace moves have come apart in the past because the Pakistani military was left sulking (If you sulk, you are silent and bad-tempered for a while because you are annoyed about something.) in a corner. For the wooing (if you woo people, you try to encourage them to help you, support you, or vote for you, for example by promising them things which they would like.) to be successful, Bollywood or Lollywood style, Raheel Sharif is the father-in-law who will need to be pleased. Else he might take a stick to the lovey-dovey couple, and there will be mayhem (chaos).
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