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."

Friday, January 09, 2009

India’s Leaders are Not Impotent!

हिंदुह्रदयसम्राट शिवसेनाप्रमुख श्री बाळासाहेब ठाकरे: "आणीबाणी पुकारा. नपुंसक आणि भडवे देश काय वाचवणार?" (सामना, डिसेम्बर २१, २००८)

Emperor–of-Hindu-hearts Shiv-Sena-Chief Shri. Balasaheb Thackeray: “Call emergency. How can impotent (leaders) and pimps save the nation?” (Daily Samna, December 21, 2008)


Artist: Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, January 12, 2009, Cartoon Caption Contest 176

My caption:

“His fans have done this becuase I wrote: I don’t know about pimps but how can they be impotent considering growing clout of dynasties and burgeoning nepotism in every walk of Indian life?”