Love the way Mamata Bannerjee is going about Kol....just love it.
To paraphrase John Paul Young's 'Love is in the air' -
Change is in the air, everywhere I look around
Change is in the air, in every sight and every sound
And we don't know if its an illusion
And we don't know if it's true
But its something we must believe in
And hope its really going to happen...
The wonderful thing about Ms. Bannerjee is that she talks in a language and manner that people understand, and her sincerity is visible. People take her seriously, only because she comes across as REAL. She is completely artless and candid, and hence is genuine, and, you can feel it.
I once had the opportunity of hearing Ms. Bannerjee speak in a debate. I will admit that I was skeptical. But, 2 minutes into her speech and I was completely bowled over. She spoke in English, and one could make out she was not very comfortable with the language. But that did not deter her one single bit, as she strove to prove her point. If she could be so compelling in a foreign language, imagine the power of her speeches in Bengali? Is it any wonder that she swayed a fractious, debating, argumentative, complaining, theorizing, pontificating, opinionated people? and she still continues to have the upper hand, simply because for each of their pompous statements, she has a ready, witty repartee...
