There has been much breast beating over the auctioning of Gandhi’s eyeglasses and other personal belongings. Now that our national honor has been restored by Vijay Mallya, the pride of Bangalore, I am left with this image of Gandhi’s eyeglasses staring at Tippu Sultan’s sword!
Actually, I have a suggestion for Dr. Mallya. Maybe he could establish a ‘National Honor Museum’ at the site of The United Breweries headquarters on Mallya Road in the heart of Bangalore, which acording to rumours is being shifted to a site outside the city.
That would be the most appropriate monument for a post-Gandhian India, don’t you think?
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I wonder what Gandhi would have made of a liquor baron buying up his personal artefacts for the sake of national honour! Would he have told Mallya to spend the $1.8 in the service of temperance movements?
$1.8 million!
Gandhi will have surely told Mallya to find some other business to keep himself busy!
that’s why i think a National Honor Museum, with Mallya as its chief patron will be appropriate monument for the post-Gandhian India.
Actually, my favorite newspaper Star of Mysore today had a blazing headline: Mallya saves India’s Honor. Gandhi probably would have had some videshi collector keep it rather than Mallya buying them, methinks.
Well, Mallya stands for everything Gandhi would have disapproved of. Lavish, well rather, obscenely lavish lifestyle, hedonistic pursuits…He’s over the top in everything he does. Gandhi would have cringed at the thought of his and India’s honor being saved by a self-indulgent liqor baron
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