Lohiaite socialism? Forget it. We desis love band baaja baraat
Amid near stampede conditions in Delhi’s Ashoka hotel, Bihar and UP became the shaadi heartland recently when Mulayam Singh Yadav’s grandnephew and Lalu Prasad’s daughter tied the knot in a spectacularly subaltern extravaganza that put Lohiaite socialism to shame.
Patriarch Mulayam started life as a pehelwan in the akharas and when it came to a gala wedding he showed he could wrestle his opponents to the floor. Jab tak samosa mein aloo hai, tab tak Bihar mein Lalu hai may not have become a self-fulfilling prophecy after all, but the wedding banquet certainly outstripped the humble potato. It was a mini Kumbh Mela with glowering rustic bahubalis rubbing shoulders with khadi-clad JP movement Read More
