I really don’t know whether Varun Gandhi is fish or fowl. Off the podium he is the slightly effete lisping LSE educated son of a privileged family very much the epitome of the babalog gen.

But put him in front of a crowd and he roars like the worst kind of fundamentalist demagogue who can leave Modi in the shade. For the son of a Parsi and a Sikh he sure makes a strange covert to Hindutva.

And where is Maneka in all of this? Will she spring to her son’s defense like the tigress that Khushwant Singh once described her?

Or will she distance herself from her son’s alleged hate speech and in fact do a Nargis in Mother India?

Mother Courage can come in different hues.

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