The stock markets are getting shaky! All because one man who has been continuously booed is causing supposedly invincible opponents to start looking worried!
Rahul Gandhi, for nearly a decade he has been joked about, lampooned, ridiculed and booed by the prime minister and the ruling party, but suddenly the whole nation is looking at him as a formidable opponent to the once invincible Modi!
I believe he ignored the boos!
I remember an instance when I was called to be a judge at the Mumbai IIT Mood Indigo Festival for One Act plays. I asked whether I could bring my two daughters along, and they gave me permission to do so. Since I loved plays, I enjoyed each one of the plays put up by the different Mumbai colleges, despite the noisy whistles and other sounds boisterous crowds are bound to let off. Somewhere in the middle of the competition I realized there was an even bigger commotion and found one of the organizers at my ear, telling me that some of the participants who had not yet performed wanted to call the competition off, because there was too much booing and other sounds from the crowd.
I asked for the mike and went up to speak, and these might not be my exact words but I’m sure went something like this, “Dear Participants!” I said, “There is no such thing as a perfect audience! As you go through life, whenever you dare to do something different, or go up in front to do something better, there will always be people who will try to boo you down. Your job is not to tell them to shut up! Your job is to quieten those boos with your performance! That is the challenge you will face, and today you can decide whether you have it within you to still those boos or run away!”
They performed. And performed well, and I do remember there were moments of pin drop silence as actors and actresses excelled themselves on stage! I would like to think that my two daughters learnt something from that experience.
That’s exactly what young Rahul Gandhi has done. He’s Ignored the boos, and ridicule, and continued picking on the formidable ruling party, even as they booed, and jeered, took away his house, filed cases against him, and heckled his every move. But today there’s a grudging respect for him, throughout the world.
He ignored the boos.
That’s how you win this journey called life, that’s how you also win against people whom others till now thought were invincible..!
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True.
In my opinion, the act of “booing someone” is childish and insecure behaviour.
When someone “boos” you, just “shoo” them away like a mosquito!
The only way to deal with ignorant, street behaviour is to ignore. It is shameful that people in power should stoop to such dregs
All persons great n not so great will ignore the boos as long as they are very clear about what they need to do and that they want to stick to the fulfilment of their aims.
Rahul has born with golden spoon in mouth.That does not mean he can make any statement,in that case he is bound to booed.Nowadays he is becoming little descent in slowguns.As against Mr Modi has struggled a lot to get the position of PM.Of course that doesn’t mean he can talk any nonsense and will be forgived.
DARE the Boos!
BOB Sir has truly described about the excitement of the listener enjoyed or getting uncomfortable. But performer has to be intelligent and well prepared for making audience attend him with respect. It’s not easy to control the crowd and make everyone listen. BOB few lines made participants to perform and crowd to listen silently.????????????????
Rahul Gandhi bore insults and finally retaliated when the uneducated PM in his jealousy indecently booed him encouraging his fans to do the same. They too are illiterate and envious of the educated opponent
Rahul was known as pappu. He has moved far from it. It seems he does the Vipassana and so does his sister. We may never know. I hope the cong. wins. Yuval Noah harari is also a vip meditator.
Thank you Judith