It would have been almost comical were the consequences for the country had not been so serious. Yes, I am talking about the great Indian secular media posturing.
After the sordid power plays in the galleries of Goa, Bihar and Jharkhand were played out and it was hard to hide that the scriptwriter, producer and director were handymen from the Congress, the secular media scrambled to action. After all, during the past few months, they have praised Sonia Gandhi’s “sacrifice” to the hilt, hailed Manmohan Singh’s moral credentials and have tried to sell the “New Congress” to a skeptical populace. If they could not somehow explain away the shenanigans of the Congressmen and someone were to actually proclaim that the King has no clothes (that is, Congress is still corrupt and a party of power grabbers) – the house of Cards that Sonia has built will be shattered in no time.
Thus, we have the spectacle of columnists in the secular media trying to see the big picture and attempting to blame the old Congress mindset rather than saying anything directly against the dynasty. Like I said-it would have been comical were it not so pathetic.