Unsung is a Notty Boi!
August 1, 2009 at 8:24 am | In Family, People, Politics, Society | 22 CommentsTags: Family, Gossip, People, Politics, Society
I’m sure you must’ve all seen this snap at some time or another, in your lives, probably in the newspaper or a magazine special :
My father passed on the snap in an email forward titled “Very rare old photo – Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh at India Gate” to my sister, me and a few relatives.
I opened the email, saw the snap and wondered why ever he’d forward it to us. That, and because he’s so not into the Gandhis (the exact opposite, of course) to propagate anything pleasant relating to the family.
I was waiting for the other snap(s) to load, the one with Manmohan Singh in them, but realized that no more were loading. Then I noticed the caption on the earlier photograph, which read
“Very rare old photo:
Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh at India Gate”
Yes, yes! I know most of you probably understood the email long before I would’ve myself.
Anyway, it certainly ticked me off that my father should send this forward to me, knowing the supporter I am of the Congress. I couldn’t let him get away with it, no?
So I quickly pressed “Reply to All” and shot off a response that read…
“Isn’t it fascinating how ice-cream vendors end up going so much further in life than… say, students of economics? or Law? Even businessmen?”
As you could’ve guessed, my father is all three of them. Since it was on “Reply To All”, it’s also going to make it to the mail-boxes of my sister (no issues), two people whose faces I cannot quite place and my cousin sister and brother, who have already earned a mention on this blog prior to this.
So evidently my email is going to get some tongues wagging, but evidently I couldn’t care less!
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all the same, that was a little crass, bhai
Comment by Daksh — August 1, 2009 #
How inappropriate is it really to be “crass” with someone who is mocking people he doesn’t even know personally?
I don’t like you at all by the way, you RSS supporter!
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 1, 2009 #
that was a nice chop!! Good boy unsung!
Comment by Rani — August 1, 2009 #
*Daksh
See? See what the pretty girl has to say!
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 1, 2009 #
Delhi looks so beautiful….no pollution
Sonia would have never imagined that one day she will rule India
Comment by Pesto Sauce — August 1, 2009 #
Come now, she doesn’t “rule” India… she only helps a little in making it a slightly better place for the poor masses
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 1, 2009 #
What did ur Dad reply ? He must be having something crisper than you after all he is Senior USP !!
Comment by BlueMist — August 1, 2009 #
I agree with Pesto on the Delhi bit. Sonia and Rajiv look absolutely gorgeous couple.
Comment by BlueMist — August 1, 2009 #
Nope, no reply from Dad yet! Don’t think he will…
But as I said, it’ll certainly get my cousins talking
And yes, they do look cute in the photograph…
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 1, 2009 #
Our PM was ice cream vendor ? Looking at his qualifications and CV does not seem so. This could be a photoshop trick ? Possible ?
Comment by BlueMist — August 2, 2009 #
They’ve not photoshopped him! It’s just any other Sikh person in the snap, and they’ve made mockery saying that the Gandhis, “who rule the country as if its their own” put an ice-cream vendor in the PM’s position…
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 2, 2009 #
Sonia gandhi sure did look pretty when she was young!
Comment by Miss M — August 1, 2009 #
She was totally hawt!
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 1, 2009 #
Reminds me of that cliched to death joke :
Dad – Son, when Bill gates was your age, he was a multimillionaire.
Son – Dad, when lincoln was of your age, he was the president.
I will never leave an occassion in real life to use these
Comment by Karan — August 2, 2009 #
I would totally hit that!
Comment by Firebolt — August 2, 2009 #
Hit what? :S
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 2, 2009 #
Hit the broad, haha! She used to look awesome, didn’t she?
Comment by Firebolt — August 2, 2009 #
Hyuk hyuk hyuk! She certainly did
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 3, 2009 #
I’ve received this email too but I was just so awe-struck by Sonia Gandhi’s good lucks that I never noticed the bit about Manmohan Singh – neither in the subject nor in the picture.
Comment by D — August 3, 2009 #
She was a total bombshell, wasn’t she? And look at what Indian politics did to her…
… and we say that she got it out of her own want. Hmph!
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 3, 2009 #
Nice post.
Observation on pic: this is Gandhis before politics had touched them in any possible way, and look at how nice they both appear…
just a thought..
Comment by m0rph3us — August 14, 2009 #
If you’re implying that politics made them age, I agree.
If you’re instead alleging that politics corrupted them, I’d have to strongly differ.
Comment by unsungpsalm — August 14, 2009 #