Of Dinosaurs and Eternal Sunshine

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Sunil Gavaskar , our perennial headlines grabbing discovery, finds it difficult to keep his mouth shut. It has been a chronic problem, usually self-inflicted with an orchestrated objective. Sunny bhai is a smart cookie who can anticipate wind pattern changes by even the subtle shift of his handkerchief in the summer breeze. Having seen frenzied nationalism from Kolkota to Kerala and Chandigarh to Cochin provoked by the Harbhajan Singh Monkeygate affair , when we Indians reminded ourselves of history lessons about the Quit India movement, Sunny bhai has quickly doubled up, and realized that the easiest way to rise up the popularity charts is to appear a tragic victim of prejudiced policies of the dubious white man. Nothing sells these days in India more than a patriotic clarion call for self-respect, national honour etc etc. Everyone is joining this arrogant bandwagon with a tricolor fluttering atop. . Drum beating jingoism....