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There seemed to be a politician lurking in every student the past month. The Modi wave was clearly felt in KCT. Almost every student I knew voted for the BJP and each one gave a plausible explanation for the unanimous (!) decision. Modiji, et tu? ;( 10 Things I think made Students** opt for BJP 1.Modi can speak. Yes, he can! /*He doesn’t speak the way Ranbir Kapoor does onscreen. So I have trouble understanding his Hindi*/ 2. Manmohan Singh. Just look at how he's been called these days-   the puppet ruler, Sonia Gandhi’s spastic child, the silent spectator, solitary reaper (saw this one in Outlook), ‘mute-ant’ , male counterpart of twilight Bella,  etc..etc.. He has been the new posterboy of Santa and Banta brand of jokes.  3. Arnab Goswami … People believe he speaks right from the Upanishads.So hence goes the adage, "If one can’t duel  Arnab, he can’t rule the nation."  #RahulGandhikiAag 4. 3G…3G..3G . Not many had an inkling ...

So finally the moment has arrived. The widely criticized (rather than anticipated) XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 is about to start. Everyone has had their say. Ministers of various commonwealth nations, CWG officials, the Olympic Games Committee folks, most importantly ‘The Media’ and even this 16 year old who has never come close to anything known as ‘Sports’ (if only ‘hide-and-seek’ belonged to this category!) I’m not going to write about all that has been much said and hyped about by the Media. I’m not going to point out the “unpreparedness” of the games nor would I say anything about the foot bridge collapse, the sanity of the CWG village, the incident at the weight-lifting arena, pulling out of (over the) top athletes, the dumb reasons given by our sincere officials ( not to mention the dog’s dump on the athletes’ bed!!). “Seeing is Believing” they say, which is just another way of saying “Hearing is not believing” But we saw the pictures of filthy village in the p...