Jarnail Unleashes Shu-nami

The current electoral battle reminds me of a C grade movie. One with C grade actors mouthing tuneless songs, sidekicks unleashing absurd humour and in general an insipid narrative that gets you to either run for cover or produce infectious yawns even before it has started off. Never before has one witnessed an election that is so issue-less, crass or dull. One is continuously being subjected to stale jokes, staler diatribe between the lead protagonists and stinking -sinking standards of political debate.

The only bright spark, one must admit has come from the innovative iraqi who has inspired many a sardaar to perfect the art of gently lobbing a sneaker and making a point, howsoever pointless.

Welcome to the new age journalist indulging in "Jarnailism" when not reporting obscure stories. What Jarnail Singh has unleashed is a virtual "Shu-nami". Within a fortnight, atleast 4 more politicos have been targeted by different brands of shoes in different parts of the country. Am sure that Madhur bhandarkar must be itching to announce a grandiose plan to direct a film around this "historic s(ho)e-ries of events".

While this mega event led to some "has been" politicos being "shoo-ed out", for me, it has served as an inspiration to draft my own list of favourites from diverse fields, who must be "booted out" - figuratively - if we were to save our senses from being continuously assaulted.

• Southern Sleepies : Karunanidhi & devegowda : for being the most ugly political faces on TV.
• the buffalo brigade - Mulayam, Maya and Mamta -for wanting to take India back to the 18th century - sans computers, english, cars,,,........!
• The Sawant shows : Rakhi Sawant - for turning herself into a bigger spectacle by aping Jade Goody. God help her and the guy she gets married to in front of a live TV audience!!
• Sagarika Ghosh, Rajdeep Sardesi and Karan Thapar - for loving their own voices and forgetting why they invite guests to their studios.
• Sonia Gandhi's Hindi or "wiper arm" tactics - dont mind the face or personality. but please i cant see her arm waving tactics and cant bear to hear her for another 5 years

Shoo kar mere man ko kiya tune kya ishaara....

Can more jarnail Singhs please stand up!