Fizool ke meltdowns and fluid scoldings
Updated On: 26 May, 2024 06:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Paromita Vohra
Priyanka Gandhi on the other hand, has been demonstrating a rather different approach, in her interviews
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Prashant Kishor had a showstopping meltdown on Karan Thapar’s show and social media was gleeful. PK is always scolding the media for asking predictable questions—not that he lets them complete their questions, while KT is famed for his pugilistic approach. The show played out with an uneasy air, as a volley of interruptions and undercurrents. It was a contest of two masculinities: one, with an Oxbridge accent, to the club membership born. The other with a flavourful Hindi, data-swag and a passkey to contemporary corridors of power. Unsurprisingly this civilisational subtext climaxed with PK saying “be man enough” and KT saying “I will be man enough.” They seemed remarkably alike separated only by a bowtie.
People felt KT had exposed PK. But what had he exposed exactly? That, like most Indian gents, Thapar included, Kishor loves the sound of his own voice, and hates being contradicted? What’s new? This ‘gotcha’ form of binary debate is merely about establishing one’s own position as superior, humiliations and triumphalism, devoid of curiosity or exchange. It leaves no room for doubt on either side.
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