The Times of India reports that American President-elect Obama has in his current staff a person with Gujrati and VHP links.
Gujarati expat Sonal Shah (40), an eminent economist who heads Googles philanthropic arm and has now been appointed an advisory board member by US President-elect Barack Obama to assist his team in smooth transition of power, comes from a family rooted in Sangh Parivar in Gujarat.
Her father Ramesh Shah, who hails from Gabat village in Sabarkantha, has been associated with Vishwa Hindu Parishad for the last 30 years. The family is now settled in Houston, Texas, where Shah founded the Gujarati Samaj.
It is eminently obvious that this insidious appointment is proof enough of the entirely corrupt nature of American politics. A fact that cannot be denied. It is now only natural that Narendra Modi’s influence will go on to infiltrate the White House.
But Barack Obama, who promises change, might have some recourse after all. Noted Feminist scholar and biologist Dr. Alexandra Bremer wrote in the early 1980s of how associated guilt is inherited and therefore should be consciously cleansed in order to compensate for the evils of our history. In Dr Bremer’s thesis, no woman could be a True Feminist because they all had men as their fathers, and therefore were bound to be tainted by this patriarchy.
Crucially, Bremer goes on to point that the only way to atone for this inherent pollution is to make conscious efforts to eradicate the vestiges of the old. She referred to this process as synthesistic revolution. It involved a total denial and rejection of the paternal genetic inheritances. This was often acheived by simple acts such as defacing the father-image in the family album, or in certain required extreme circumstances, patricide.
In the Randall Zakuroff chair, we are of the opinion that Bremer’s theory offers solutions beyond the field of gender studies. Obama’s rhetoric has been promising, but his very first actions have been disappointing. So what America now needs is not another pseudo-Socialist New Deal, but genuine Great Leap Forward. A conscious eradication of all the strands of White-Greceo-Capitalist-Patriarchy from the United States. What Roosevelt learnt and imperfectly imitated from what was the failure that was Soviet Russia, Obama must replicate, but with intelligence, the history of what is today the success that is Communist China.