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'Mr Guruswamy, you have fallen mightily'
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000, 10:26:43EST -0500 The article is in poor taste. I am surprised rediff carried it. How can the writer say that Vajpayee has no vision without giving any instances to support his claim? It is tragic that political dialogue has to descend to this level! M A Pai
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000, 13:01:36EST -0400 Why do you even bother to carry such stuff? Venkat
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Thu, 21 Sep 2000, 17:12:02EST +0400 This is nothing but the cynical rambling of a pathetic and frustrated loser. N Gupta
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Thu, 21 Sep 2000, 05:25:38EST -0700 This is one of the most pathetic articles I have read in a long time. It is not just that I disagree with the article, it is the pathetic manner in which it is written that disappoints me to know that Mohan Guruswamy was actually a financial advisor to our finance ministry. No doubt we are going broke! The writer's hypocrisy is evident when he denounces Vajpayee's ability at 76 years and then claims that he has been instrumental in the successful manipulation to create the power balance in BJP to his advantage. I am sure the columnist's professor at Harvard taught him the difference between charisma and power. What he perhaps hasn't learnt is that there are statesman who can bring about a change in a very stable yet uncharismatic fashion. There is no one in this world who was more charismatic than Hitler and we all know where he took his country! I am not saying that this government has been the greatest, but its achievements have been worthy. I think an educated person like the writer should at least view things with a little bit more balance, rather than write whatever comes to his mind. Rohit Kaila
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000, 18:49:05EST +0530 This is a vitriolic and pathetic column from a frustrated man who wanted to use his Harvard degree to zoom right to the top of Indian polity. I hold no brief for Vajpayee, as I think it is time he went away and stopped boring us with his poetry. But if there is one thing his administration did do right, it was in ridding us of Mohan Guruswamy, who was useless as an analyst, useless in his role advising the finance ministry, and is today an apology of a writer with an acid-dipped pen. I will opt for Mani Shankar Aiyar any day -- he is a better writer, and even his abuse comes off as more authentic, as it flows from a genuine contempt for those whom he ridicules, not because he has a career-related grouse against them. Srinivas Ramdas Sunder
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000, 06:36:38EST -0700 This is what I would like to tell the writer of this piece: "Kutte bhonkake rahate hain Haathi nikal jata hai." Dinesh
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Thu, 21 Sep 2000, 00:07:47EST +0800 This is nothing but a case of sour grapes! Ram Iyer
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000, 09:52:33EST -0500 Vajpayee may be old, he might have health problems, but so what? I would, any day, rather have someone like him who at least has a moral conscience as our prime minister than for instance, someone like Laloo Yadav who might be healthy but will only make India sick. Nor would I want a Sonia Gandhi to be our PM. Madhu
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000, 23:13:40EST -0500 Heartfelt congratulations for publishing Mohan Gurusamy's article about Prime Minister Vajpayee's health, his performance on the job and his potential successors. I look forward to many of Mr Mohan Gurusamy's articles in the future in rediff. Arasu Chellaiah
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000, 11:34:28EST -0700 This is what I would like to tell Mr Guruswamy: For a man who flew so high for however brief a time in the company of the very ducks you are shooting down so bitterly today, you have fallen greatly and mightily. Your language is unsuited for a man who would like to be described as cerebral. It is that of a third rate tabloid, forgive the redundancy. What is it that is ailing you? A bad attack of sour grapes perhaps? Radha Rajan
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000, 11:29:24EST -0700 Nehru was never a charismatic figure as the article says. It was only his proximity to Gandhi which made him popular. I do not even think that he was a mass leader. In fact, he was a compromise choice for the post of prime minister after Partition. During Partition, when Gandhi offered Jinnah the prime mnistership to stop breaking India, where was the charisma of this Nehru? If you see Gandhi you can see a weeping and sad Nehru during that discussion at the thought of loosing the prime ministership! Jayant
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000, 14:27:51EST -0400 What kind of sick man is Mohan Guruswamy to speak with such vengeance, which is almost personal, about a PM who despite all his health concerns, worked so hard and has given great shape to Indo-US relations? I was present at a luncheon in Washington DC with him and I saw how sick he was and yet how hard he worked to make sure everyone understood how important this was to him and to the country. It is ugly coverage like this that distorts and ruins the great efforts of hardworking statesmen like Vajpayee, Singh and Chandra. Manav Sachdeva "Maasoom"
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000, 10:38:06EST -0700 I don't see anything wrong with Vajpayee's performance, either in the US or in India for that matter. And as for charisma, let me say that we don't need it in a PM or anywhere else in India. Charisma in India has always meant chaos that allows stupidity to prevail over reason. Charisma has always meant that the people's business goes undebated, left to the whims and mercy of unaffordable charisma. The Mahatma's charisma has meant overturning the will of the people with tragic consequences. People wanted a no-nonsense Sardar Patel, a man of proven ledership cabilities, to be the first PM of India but the Mahatma imposed Nehru upon the country with the tragic result that Indians are still getting killed in Kashmir, and corruption allows no decent man to live at peace with his conscience. It is said that no man is wiser than the collective opinion of the people. Pradip Parekh
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000, 13:21:05EST -0400 The article shows Mohan Guruswamy's shabby character. Instead of praising one who is undobtedly the best leader we have had in our history after Lal Bahadur Shastri, this coloumnist is trying to act smart by redefining words like charisma and popularity. I attended Vajpayeeji's meeting at Staten Island. Every word he said there had deep meaning. He made us feel that even though we live abroad, we are contributing to our country's progress. It simply does not matter how many hours he spends in his office. All of us strongly feel that he is responsible for our country's progress in recent times. I request rediff not to publish such columns henceforth. Rahul S Deo
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