Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsRahul Mahajan, son of the late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan - murdered,unfortunately so, by his brother - is battling for life. Less than a month to the date that he lit his father's funeral pyre at Shivaji Park in Bombay. Mahajan Sr.'s former personal secretary and confidant, Bibek Moitra is dead. No one really knows how this came to pass. Fact, fiction and the misplaced sense of importance that journalists bestow upon themselves ... and by that grain, the license to speculate and pontificate ... have all contributed to the carnival of conjecture that unfolds by the minute, every minute. Maybe they snorted an ounce too much (we still do not know but have been gently informed so in every update so far). An OD of cocaine is not really as exceptional as finding life on Pluto. It happens everyday, somewhere. Not expected of a grieving son of a made-by-media- political David perhaps. Or of any son who is expected to subscribe to socially acceptable mores of being post bereavement. I neither condone nor condemn. I refuse though, to stand in judgement, and put through the maginifying glass, the private choices and acts of public puppets. Sure, if he aspires (or as the case may well be, is compelled) to encash on his father's immediate-past charisma and clout, he jolly well be up to the scrutiny that is part of the deal. But hang on a bit. Before you unleash the unforgiving trial. Here's someone who is as given to being human as you and I are. Of messing up and being messed up. This incident imposes no dire consequence upon our individual or collective realities. Let him be. first published:June 03, 2006, 00:35 ISTlast updated:June 03, 2006, 00:35 IST
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Rahul Mahajan, son of the late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan - murdered,unfortunately so, by his brother - is battling for life. Less than a month to the date that he lit his father's funeral pyre at Shivaji Park in Bombay. Mahajan Sr.'s former personal secretary and confidant, Bibek Moitra is dead. No one really knows how this came to pass. Fact, fiction and the misplaced sense of importance that journalists bestow upon themselves ... and by that grain, the license to speculate and pontificate ... have all contributed to the carnival of conjecture that unfolds by the minute, every minute. Maybe they snorted an ounce too much (we still do not know but have been gently informed so in every update so far). An OD of cocaine is not really as exceptional as finding life on Pluto. It happens everyday, somewhere. Not expected of a grieving son of a made-by-media- political David perhaps. Or of any son who is expected to subscribe to socially acceptable mores of being post bereavement. I neither condone nor condemn. I refuse though, to stand in judgement, and put through the maginifying glass, the private choices and acts of public puppets. Sure, if he aspires (or as the case may well be, is compelled) to encash on his father's immediate-past charisma and clout, he jolly well be up to the scrutiny that is part of the deal. But hang on a bit. Before you unleash the unforgiving trial. Here's someone who is as given to being human as you and I are. Of messing up and being messed up. This incident imposes no dire consequence upon our individual or collective realities. Let him be.
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