When a Shoe is Mightier than a Pen!
Hi, I cannot believe I have sparked off a huge controversy. I am Reebok, size 9 shoe that my master Jarnail Singh, a journalist from Dainik Jagran wears when he goes out on his professional outings. I hate going to political meetings but cannot escape the torture because Jarnail feels comfortable only when he wears me. This Tuesday, he wore me again much to my lack of interest to going to press conferences and political meetings.
P.Chidambaram, our Home Minister was fielding questions and giving answers about Jagdish Tytler being given a clean chit in the 1984 riots. My master asked a question on similar lines and I could make out that he was not happy with the answers the home minster was giving. Suddenly, I felt Jarnail tugging me out, forcing his leg out of me. I waited with bated breath, thinking he wanted to perhaps loosen the stiffness in his leg. But no, he just picked me up and before I could make out how my companion, on his other leg was doing, hurled me at full speed at the home minister.
As I felt myself moving in the air, I recollected Jarnail watching a TV program once, about how an Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi has hurled his shoes at the then US Prime Minister George W.Bush. I had also heard about a shoe being thrown at Wen Jiabao, premier of China. I couldn’t believe history was being repeated through me! I prayed that I wouldn’t hit the home minister; I knew I would be surely kicked out. Luckily my usually aimless master missed the aim again and I moved past the home minister’ side.
I, the humble Reebok shoe, am resting in police custody and I have heard that my master wants me back. Let’s lace it, I mean face it, you can shoo the power of a shoe! The shoe is becoming an internationally acceptable way of protest against political leaders. I have found out that I do not have to hit the bull’s eye, I need not meet the target, but still I kick in a plethora of questions that the common man would like. A shoe is now mightier than a pen, however twisted as it may seem. I have hogged major headlines in newspapers and have even made the Congress rethink on Jagdish Tyler’s candidature.
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Posted by Starwin on 13th April, 2009
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