These guys, I love.

I love the Shiv Sena. These guys just rock. Look at all the things they hate…or have hated at different points of time.

They started by hating Gujratis and Marwaris who drove Bombay’s commerce. Soon, their able supremo turned his eyes to the South Indians with lyrical slogans like "lungi hatao pungi bajao"

Infact they hated all non-Maharashtrians, and slowly took up various communities in turn….they hated Bangaldeshis, which of-course in their well-informed mind was the same as hating Bengalis so they started a campaign of kicking Bengalis out of Bombay (apologies, Mumbai).

Then they started hating all anti-nationals, which in their rational minds meant all Muslims. Of course, they also hated the Christians, why? Well not because they were anti-national, but because they were not Hindus.

So do they love Hindus? Well yes, certainly they do, if that Hindu is nationalistic, hates Muslims, is a Maharashtrian, is prepared to dig up the cricket pitch when Pakistan is scheduled to play on it, does not celebrate Valentine’s day, does not support Raj Thackerey and the latest, hates and wants to shut down orkut.com. See how they keep with the times.

The rationale they bring in their arguments is just breathtaking, sample this

“Asked what cybercafe owners could do, Panse retorts, "You see, if X person is running a hotel and Y person brings a prostitute to that hotel, don't you think it is the responsibility of X to stop this immoral act? In the same way, we feel cybercafes should be responsible and ban Orkut. After all, we are Indians and we should not allow sites that are against our country to run."

For complete report see the link below:-http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jun/08spec.htm

The Sena leader wears dark glasses and saffron robes and sits on a thrown and admires Hitler, how cool is that? Had I given the same description without this context you would think I was describing a Bollywood baddie.

If you objectively judge between love and hate, love is mostly fake or in other words when people say they love something or somebody they are mostly:-
1. Lying
2. Using the word loosely without really meaning it.
3. Have just a habit of saying that.

Also a show of love can be faked, but a show of hatred is mostly genuine and rarely faked. Further while you can actually love a lot of things at the same time (your Dog, your car, your parents, Kiera Knightly) it is difficult to hate a lot of things at the same time (I mean I can understand your boss and your mother-in-law, but that’s about it).

The Sena’s capability to hate their fellow men is genuine and refreshing in the sheer novelty of reasons they come up with to sustain, perpetuate and multiply this hatred (I almost forgot the pretentious M F Hussein’s paintings).

And that is why I love the Sena, I love them because they are not fake.

In a country that tries to parade a culture of love and brotherhood (what crap!!), the Sena is the only mainstream political party that has shown this amazing capability of hating so many things at different points of time and also at the same time.It is however an altogether different matter that most of the party members should be locked up in solitary confinement.