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Like Bal Thackeray using the subtle 'bag of potatoes' to refer to the physically large Sharad Pawar. She had made a telling point under which Modi and the entire Sangh parivar did squirm and a retort was impossible. Like Sonia GandhiвЂ™s use of that by now famous Maut ka saudagar for Narendra Modi once was. The subtleties are important when words are the thing. Modi invested in it a meaning by using it for a Muslim, in this case, an Islamic stateвЂ™s head, Parvez Musharraf. In Urdu-speaking societies, Miyan in ordinarily used as an honorific, not a derogatory term. Since his post-2002 anti-Muslim image, it set off the loud peals of the bells among a particular section of the politically correct. If respectably used, without the contextual conditions now exploited by Modi, it merely means a son.

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It is the progeny of the king, the rich, spoilt, allowed a free run simply because he is the son of the father of some eminence, of a particular high status.

Shahzada or Sahibzada also conveys a lot. It also implied the grabbing kind, a hint of decadence, of the brahminical cultural ethos. Shrimant is how the Peshwas were referred to вЂ“ it also meant the rich. Without referring to the Shiv SenaвЂ™s founder by name, it nicely suggested what Maharashtrians know. In other words, they are referring to the partyвЂ™s cadresвЂ™ ability to use muscle on the streets.ДЄ decade ago, Sharad Pawar had used the term 'Shrimant' when referring to Bal Thackeray, during an arduous election campaign.

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They are staying their hand only because of the election-related code of conduct. If Modi does not stop it, he may have issues, the partyвЂ™s spokesmen have declared. He himself talks of his вЂmummyвЂ™ and вЂnaaniвЂ™.ДЄnd in its anger, the Congress erred. That alone has brought him to the forefront of the Congress though he has nothing yet to show for it.

It is not a derogatory term, but respectable to become a fitting description of a man, Rahul Gandhi, known and even called The Prince in some circles because of his dynastic DNA. That is where Narendra ModiвЂ™s 'shahzada' comes in. Marc AntonyвЂ™s funeral speech praising Julius CaesarвЂ™s assassins could not have had the mob thirsting for revenge had he not called the conspirators вЂњall honourable menвЂќ. Speakers need to work up some graphic images that, in one word, or maybe two-three, explain a lot more, catch the fancy and drive the imagination of the audience on which other things are layered. With Jawaharlal Nehru, it was the cadence вЂ“ remember his Tryst with DestinyвЂ™s delivery which rang through the nation and is remembered? And Martin Luther King, JrвЂ™s I Have a Dream? Just read Abe LincolnвЂ™s Gettysburg speech in a monotone without pauses, and you waste a great speech. Fire and brimstone is not always required.ДЄtal Behari VajpayeeвЂ™s pauses, his choice of words, as well as his syntax did the trick. The audience needs words and expressions to which they latch on. And yet, a badly spoken speech can botch it all up. High fidelity sound ratcheted up booms across the space, enveloping the speaker and the audience. Huge television screens around venues help but attention invariably is on the dais. In a personality-driven election, barbs are expected.

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