Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

"Since we are nothing but packages of tepid, half-rotted viscera, we shall always have trouble with sentiment.”

W H Auden:

"But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie. / Mortal, guilty, but to me/ The entirely beautiful."

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

It’s good to be Thackeray or Pawar!

The Times of India on 31st March 2007 reported:

"Vijay Tendulkar calls Bal Thackeray and Sharad Pawar Jekyll and Hyde personalities with a mix of the good and the bad."

Tendulkar indeed has mellowed down because earlier he had called Thackeray choicest names.

But his description of Thackeray and Pawar fit us all. By morning Dr. Jekyll, by evening Mr. Hyde. Or the other way round.

So we all are like Thackeray and Pawar. Only a whole lot poorer!

Therefore, to paraphrase Mel Brooks, I say:” It’s good to be Thackeray or Pawar.”!

Artist: Sidney Hoff, The New Yorker, 6 Feb 1960