Status Updates From RSS: The Long and Short of it

It’s election time and it’s a timely read for the season

"Everything is a puppet show. If a new puppet dances better to a given tune than the current one, and shows more colour, dazzle, devotion and cunning, it enters the stage wearing a mask of strength or astuteness. It becomes the leader. The puppet that played the leader earlier is flung aside(remember L.K. Advani). "

The qualifications for an utsava murti are the ability to put up a show and the canniness to give an emotional colour to things that spin out of control, and create a commotion, and thus take attention away from the problem."

The author has hit the bullseye here!

"PM Modi,who won a majority for the BJP, is projected as a strong leader. But he's only an utsava murti, a replica of the temple deity taken out during a procession. The real deity sits in Nagpur, inside the RSS shrine. The utsava murti dazzles everyone across the length and breadth of the country. It's hailed everywhere. (TBC)