Handsome person, celebrity author, central minister, former
UN honcho, global citizen, richie rich,
intellectual and above all orator par excellence. Really he is everything rolled into one. Very
rarely could we see such a personality. For ordinary mortals, he is such an
enviable proposition. And then, he adds a trophy wife, a vivacious beauty of
Kashmiri origin (the Kashmiri penchant is strong, for his first wife was half
Kashmiri). A person of her own mite, who
had seen enough, dealt with many powers that be, a true global socialite whose presence
every man worth his salt would cherish.
And they were supposed to live happily ever after.
And that is not be! His troubles started with that. He lost
his minister-ship, People of his own party started plotting against him but he
had enough ampere to regain the lost glory to come back as a minister. She lost
the sweat equity from Rendezvous consortium. Once the passion of the marriage
was over, fissures developed. She suspected his roving eye, for him a ‘thing of
beauty is a joy forever’. He not only wanted physical companionship but intellectual
companionship too. Probably she couldn’t
have given the latter. When he got caught in intellectual companionship with
beautiful women, she was distressed. To add to that she had this secret
illness, something so bad, that could
damage her long term. It looks like she
never trusted him with beautiful mature women. She went into depression,
physical exhaustion and created enough tantrums in the social media, did her
bit of interviews with the press and then, she is gone, forever, to nether
world, never to return!
The inquest and the autopsy say it is ‘sudden unnatural
death’. He is devastated. The media is now going all over with so many theories
and rumours. The opposition is clamoring for his ouster from the cabinet.
Things aren’t looking good for him.
It is noticed that people who are writers, artists,
intellectuals etc., there is a maverick aspect that becomes very pronounced in
their behavior and often that also becomes their Achilles heel. Is there anything
like that in him? Is it the roving eye? Or is it the need intellectual companionship
with beautiful mature women? Or is it both put together?
Washing dirty linen in public isn’t the right thing, we all
know. But today, Social media enables that on a very high degree. One of the
causes that accentuated the distress and the depression in her is the social
media. How many more celebrity lives will the Twitters and the Facebook take
further? We will wait and see.
For him, it is time to take stock. For a public figure, a politician
and central minister, certain discretion is a must. Too much of transparency
and the naivety displayed in emails and twitter must be regulated (remember the
‘cattle class’ tweet!). And before tying
the knot again, he need to decide what types of companionship is needed for
him.
Because he has to realize, ‘you can’t have the cake and eat it too’.
