thecopycat

Childish, not child-like

Raj Thackeray is in my office right now. I don’t get him. Really. Well, that’s not totally true, I think I get him, but I don’t think he’s any good for us Maharashtrians—-not that he’d consider me one, I’m neither “Marathi” nor do I speak the language. I’ve just been living here all my life—-as has my father, and his father. If he thinks that by speaking only Marathi when he’s on an English news channel he appears really committed to his cause, then he’s supremely mistaken.

I can see a number of idiots who’d be impressed by this, but chances are that most people watching the TV channel are wondering why a guy who can speak perfectly decent English is talking in Marathi on an English news channel, that’s largely watched by English speaking folk.

Maybe he DOESN’T want us to know what he’s saying. Because what he’s saying doesn’t make sense anyway. Or maybe he’s missing the point. Because if he’d try and speak to us in English on an English news channel, in Hindi on a Hindi news channel and in Marathi on a Marathi one, we’d all get his point, no?

Will someone ask him if he might mind walking around with a translator at least?