With his attack on Modiji over his handling of China, Rahul G & his cabal display the same disconnect they did during 2019 (and in failing to predict the sweep), the ivory tower activism that he & his cult engage in has no truck with reality. Comparison with history. Thread.

1/n It was a revolution, an epoch defining moment in India’s post 47 history and what is stunning to me is just how out of touch and clueless the deracinated anglophile ‘elites’ just were to this ground shaking moment and remain so to this day, and why 2024 will also be a wash

2/n is RG Louis the XVI th? In fact I am being uncharitable to King Louis XVIth, 3 years before he lost his head, he recognised the severity of discontent and called a meeting of the estates general and asked them to submit Cahiers de doleances (ledgers of grievances)

3/n He promised to action these, but sadly for the king, he was still a little too late. The long oppressed bourgeois classes and the peasants were too angry to be assuaged by this and 3 years later the King and Queen both lost their heads

4/n The current opposition and I include the Khan Market gang here didn’t have the prescience King Louis had, they remind me of Hitler in April 1945. Surrounded by Soviet troops, Hitler in his delusional world was convinced that he was winning. RG with his unwise attacks when

5/n the enemy is literally at the gates continues his Don Quixote like tilting at windmills

His enablers, toadies like Goebbels (Lutyens Media?) Himmler, Hans Krebs etc didn’t even bother bringing the Fuhrer down to reality. They instead enabled his delusions, promising him that

6/n his genius alone will help defeat Marshal Zhukov and his 1 million troops

Anybody who said otherwise was called a traitor and summarily dismissed from service. Till the day he shot himself, Hitler believed victory was just around the corner. He died thinking he would have 7

7/n won IF not for a few pesky Whermacht generals who interfered with his genius

Our Rahul Gandhi lives in a similar delusional world, aided and enabled actively by the ecosystem who to this day are unable to accept these results for what they are. His world view was clouded by

8/n he thinks a few interviews with intellectuals will have the sheen rub off on him. Few videos in chaste English, attacking Modi where he is at his strongest (nationalist credentials) is a masterstroke....none of it is anything but a fool's attempt at staying in the limelight

9/n You read endless opeds on how Mr Gandhi / Mamta / Maya etc represented the idea of India and how Mr Modi represented the ‘other’. The message was clear, Modi was the pretender on the throne, and was safe only when the default program, the Cong was in power in the centre

10/n Or the “Rahul is coming of age” nonsense. I counted 20, yes 20 such articles from 2010 on. So apparently Rahul Baba comes of age 2 times every year like clockwork and as in the case of the emperor who wears no clothes, they all pander to Rahul the legendary leader

11/n They are convinced that his appellation Pappu is something the BJP IT cell made up, not realising that the average Indian, esp the average young Indian derides him as a no good talentless hack who got to where he is only because of who he is

12/n With the numbers now clear, you realise that all these pages have aged like milk left on the terrace of a hot Chennai day, does….very poorly. Which begs the question, how did so many allegedly intelligent people misread something so epoch making? Why do so many intelligent

13/n people still think RG is brilliance personified and Pappu is a BJP It cell creation?

The intelligence is what needs to be questioned because in India in general and amongst the literati and intelligentsia in particular, the ability to communicate in English is directly

14/n proportional to your intelligence

This is why air heads like Swara Bhaskar or even literary heavyweights like Arundati “Rafale carrier” Roy (no complaints on her writing here though) were given so much air time. They are disconnected from the real subaltern and

15/n indulge in what is politely called a ‘circle jerk’.They live in their own echo chambers, as a Tambram, many in my own circle live in a similar echo chamber. it is spectacular on how delusional and disconnected they are. Anybody gainsaying them is branded a filthy Sanghi

16/n Derided for being ‘low IQ’ and if the exchange continued, it is shut down with the magic words “gaumutrbhakth sanghi”. This same politically correct class would shy away from using words offensive to Jews (kike), Blacks or Muslims, but have no qualms in abusing the Hindu RW

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Thus isolated and insulated, they crafted their own narrative on how Demonitisation caused 1000’s of deaths, how Modi is hated by the poorest Dalits, intolerance is rising. Similarly they do so on the China question, on Rajasthan, on MP...

18/n Armed with this ‘knowledge’ you then got farcical analysis like the one Wire put out on UP where they took the assembly election results, added the SP + BSP voteshare, compared it with the BJP vote share and decided….Modi is done for, ggwp

19/n, again on China suspect "analysts" like Ajai Shukla are considered the gospel, contrary to even what the MoD says, this is a vicious cycle. Some "analyst" or retired general will say "India lost 100000 sqkm", picked up by the ecosystem and amplified in the end by Pappu

20/n facts aren't important here for these intelekshuals. But not these ‘intellectuals’, they were absolutely convinced of their methods and outcomes and this then was fed to the key opposition leaders which lead to even more farcial things like how

21/n Rahul Gandhi said “he destroyed Modi’s identity”, vigorous hand gesticulation included

Like his handlers and advisors must have taught him and like GoT season 8, it made for a stirring thing to watch….but that was all, in reality it was shallow and lacked all substance.

22/n something May 23rd proved in spades

What’s shocking to me personally is that, rather than submit to the defeat, after all it isn’t final – King Narasimhavarman came back from a crushing defeat to taking the Chalukyan capital. The Cholas came from being small vassals to 2

23/n the Pallavans to becoming a superpower

Simon Bolivar lost so many times, was exiled 2 times, and yet every single time he picked up, learnt from his mistakes and fought on. Defeat is not shameful, defeat is an opportunity to pause, understand what went wrong and then fix

24/24 yet the Cong and it's ecosystem seem incapable of self analysis, arre moribund in their thought process and without a radical rethink, starting first with an admission that their methods are wrong, the party in its present form is headed the way of the Dinos & dodos