Subramanian Swamy, the perpetual disruptor in Indian
politics, is the protagonist of a certain way of public life that may be called
‘Swamyism’ in line with McCarthyism. He also bears an uncanny resemblance to
the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, the “cause of all the mischief”, as
Alice would put it. True to their common demeanor, Swamy is now repeating the
Queen’s famous words” “Off with their heads” against anyone he personally dislikes.
With the same haughtiness with which the Red Queen strutts on the chess board,
Swamy seems to strutt Indian politics with exactly the same pompous claim: “All
the ways about here belong to me”! Fortunately, nothing about Swamy would last
long. He would rouse enough rabbles to bury himself sooner than later. The political
fate that awaits Swamyism is the same as that of McCarthyism, which, in
President Eisenhower’s famous words had become “McCarthywasm” by the late
nineteen fifties.
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