Jaipur: A self published author and observer of the US politics predicts a massive win for Hillary Clinton in the US presidential elections.
Inder Dan Ratnu who comes from a village in Rajasthan’s Pokhran, thick of the Thar Desert where India conducted its nuclear tests, also has a thing of two to tell the Republican candidate Donald Trump on his ‘divisive politics’ and ‘the element of triviality in his campaign’.
Ratnu’s second book on US presidential elections titled ‘Alternative to Hillary-Impeachable President Trump’ was written to ‘promote the cause of freedom by promoting a woman candidate for the post of the US President, since a woman has never held the presidential office in the world’s oldest democracy and arguably the most powerful country.
“I wrote this book to strengthen Hillary Clinton’s position since many polls right after the nominations showed Trump having an edge over her. It was written to show the inevitability of the election of Hillary Clinton as I viewed it and also to show how, alternatively, Trump would fail to deliver if got elected”, says Ratnu.
A farmer’s son and a former bank official Ratnu got interested in US politics while reading about Winston Churchill and his connection to the United States, especially during the World War II.
He discovered Churchill back in January 1974 through a book ‘Great War Speeches’, a collection of Churchill's speeches during the war. Ratnu was handed out peanuts by a street vendor on one of the pages of the book in Gujarat’s Rajkot.
Impressed by Churchill’s speeches Ratnu extensively read Churchill’s works before he wrote his first book "Alternative to Churchill-The Eternal Bondage", reviewed by Shashi Tharoor back in 1997.
In 2003 Ratnu wrote a book titled ‘First Lady President’, a work of fiction with its lead characters Beverly Clinton and Charak Sudama bearing clear resemblance with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
“I thought it would help build up a tempo in the favour of representatives of these two neglected sections as far as holding president’s office was concerned, African Americans and women, when American people would read this novel”, says Ratnu who also claims his book outlined Obama’s campaign well ahead of 2008 presidential elections.
Ratnu who has observed the politics of the United States closely spanning two presidential elections from the other side of the globe rues the declining level of political discourse especially with what he terms as the ‘advent of Trump phenomenon’.
“He uses third rate words and inappropriate language and focuses on personal issues of the candidates than the real issues and policy matters. He has introduced the element of triviality and sex in a vigorous way despite initially raising the key issues affecting the life and the future of the American people like national security and economy etc. He also introduced the racial, communal, ethnic, and other dividing elements into politics which are harmful to the nation”, says Ratnu.
Even as commercial success eludes Ratnu he’s satisfied with being an ‘informed voice’ on the politics of a country which falls in a different time zone, in a language he largely picked up on his own by reading and listening to the radio.
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