Memes and jokes galore are doing the rounds, even as our dynamic ministerlog fly in and out of Europe to ensure that Indian students in Ukraine get home safely. Bored, idle urbanites are obsessing on the crisis, almost as if their own future hangs on how many missiles and tanks are deployed in Ukraine before a sensible “setting” is achieved, and we go back to worrying about rising petrol prices and what happens in Uttar Pradesh if the BJP loses. We talk like overnight experts on geopolitics. And firing a few missiles, of course.īack in India, the sabjantawalas are busy creating their own narratives. The message has gone out loud and clear: Putin has secured his place in history books merely by flexing his martial arts-toned biceps. Neither will he blow up Ukraine, as people fear.
Instead of a tiny virus that crept into unsuspecting lungs and killed a lot of people, we have a Russian strongman who wants to show pretenders who’s the asli duniya ka boss! Clearly, it ain’t Joe Biden! This is Vladimir Putin’s moment in history, and he isn’t about to blow it. It’s amusing to follow the emotionally charged exchanges between self-styled intellectuals swapping “forwards” plucked from WhatsApp groups, as they take positions on a crisis threatening the world as much as Covid-19 did three years ago. After all, Ukraine isn’t as glam as France or Italy. India’s chattering classes are behaving like they’ve just discovered a country called Ukraine! Maybe they really have.
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