{"id":4372,"date":"2014-01-23T07:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2014-01-23T07:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T02:28:13","slug":"a-letter-to-mani-shankar-aiyar-from-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=4372","title":{"rendered":"A Letter To Mani Shankar Aiyar &#8211; From Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3108\"><i id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3107\"><span id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3106\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A letter to Mr.\u00a0Aiyar<a href=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aiyar-modi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4373\" alt=\"aiyar modi\" src=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aiyar-modi.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aiyar-modi.jpg 259w, https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aiyar-modi-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3098\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3097\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3096\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3095\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3094\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3093\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3092\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3091\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3090\">\n<blockquote id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3089\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3088\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3087\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3101\"><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3103\"><span id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3102\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Dear Mr. Aiyar,<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3100\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3086\"><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3084\"><span id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3083\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">I don\u2019t know if I can even address you, as I have not studied in St. Stephen\u2019s, I was born in a small nursing home in Tirunelveli, my great grandmother sold Idlis to make ends meet, my father-in-law was just a teacher, my husband didn\u2019t have shoes when he went for his first job interview, I had just two pairs of clothes while growing up, I studied upto my 2nd standard in a school that no longer exists, Krishnan\u2019s school also is no longer in existence, my father wrote accounts in a temple so he could fund his education and eat one meal, both my father and father-in-law started working at the age of 14\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3111\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3115\"><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3113\"><span id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3112\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">My husband and I currently live in a suburb of Delhi called Gurgaon, I am very worried if you won\u2019t let me be here because we don\u2019t \u201cfit\u201d, we aren\u2019t from Doon school, Tripos college besides being from St. Stephens, we also have not been in the Indian Foreign Service for 26 years and we certainly don\u2019t count Nehruji\u2019s grandson amongst our friends, I don\u2019t think we can speak English as well as you do, we will have to manage in Tamil, the local language and your forgotten mother tongue, in your constituency, Mayiladuthurai. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3116\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3117\"><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3119\"><span id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3118\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Some things that we might have in common, either your friend\u2019s family or your daughters would have used a L\u2019Oreal shampoo, my husband Krishnan was part of the team that launched L\u2019Oreal in India\u2026 Hmmm, I am racking my brains for some other connection. Krishnan started his career with Cipla, the Indian pharmaceutical company, setup on the behest of Gandhiji, the original Mahatma, not your friend\u2019s father and you might have taken some medicine that they manufactured, but I doubt that. So we will continue to worry about not being in the same league.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr. Aiyar, did you know that our second prime minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri was almost adopted by a milkman ? I guess by your standards he should not have become the PM, but should have supplied milk perhaps to all the Congress party workers. Mr. Aiyar, am sure you have travelled to Uruguay as you are a well travelled person, so I would like you to read about their president on this link<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollectiveint.com\/2013\/05\/the-worlds-poorest-president-may-also.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">World\u2019s poorest president.. <\/a><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Shocking, how can a former revolutionary become the President of a country and on top of that remain poor?? Giving away 90% of his earnings \u2013 maybe if he was in India, you would have wanted him to grow the vegetables that Congress party workers could eat. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr. Modi unfortunately didn\u2019t know that if he sold tea in his younger days, he should have just continued doing that and not ever dream of being the PM of this country. Forgive him, Mr. Aiyar, he didn\u2019t study in Doon school, he didn\u2019t serve in the IFS, so he doesn\u2019t know the protocol \u2013 that only one family, that of your esteemed friend is deserving of being the PM of this country because they don\u2019t sell tea in their growing up years, they study in Doon school, and they have the ability to reduce a Cambridge educated man into a puppet PM, they also marry into families that are mysterious, they have fat Swiss bank accounts, and well, they probably don\u2019t drink tea even. Mr. Modi, did you get it ? Don\u2019t worry Mr. Aiyar, someone will translate this blog into Hindi or I can even, as I speak and write Hindi very well, it is my first language. I wrote it in English so you would understand. Mr. Modi understanding or not doesn\u2019t matter, he after all can just supply tea to Congress party workers. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr. Aiyar, a question for you, can a person like me, who didn\u2019t sell tea, or milk or any other food product, dream of being the Prime Minister or President of India ? Now that I think of it, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, one of our well known Presidents, also is from the non-existent school that Krishnan studied in and so is President V V Giri. Guess, both were mistakes according to you. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3129\"><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3131\"><span id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3130\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Now Mr. Aiyar, if you still drink coffee that your forefathers drank at home, smell it, and find the first flight out to a country of your choice, because Mr. Modi will sell tea to the Congress party at a premium and from 7, Race Course Road as the PM of India soon, if not him, some other \u201cchai wallah\u201d or \u201cjhadu wali\u201d will be the prime minister, not the twit that your friend had for a son !! Just get out \u2013 we have had enough of your snobbery, and your corrupt party\u2019s ways and really enough of your friend\u2019s family. Maybe they can sell Cappuccino in Italy and try becoming the PM there and leave India to tea drinking and tea selling Indians.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3128\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3127\"><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">With best regards<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3126\"><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> Bindu<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3125\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3124\"><b id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3122\"><span id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390443694288_3121\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A letter to Mr.\u00a0Aiyar Dear Mr. Aiyar, I don\u2019t know if I can even&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=4372\">more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-2","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}