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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

MaDIBa, Gandhi, Gossip in heaven

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Oh, how I wish Madi­ba, that great, great soul, could have wit­nessed his own memo­r­i­al ser­vice. I'd like to think of Nel­son Rolih­lahla Man­dela and Mo­han­das Karam­c­hand Gand­hi hav­ing a rip-roar­ing time in heav­en. It might go like this:

(Start of skit)

Man­dela: They say I like to bring peo­ple to­geth­er. I do. The best was how that bril­liant boy Oba­ma got him­self in a pick­le with what they call a "self­ie" with that young blonde leader, Den­mark's Helle Thorn­ing Schmid. In sec­onds the world knew about it. You know, I think women like Oba­ma a bit too much.Gand­hi: But yes, Oba­ma's wife must have a spine of steel to put up with the adu­la­tion he gets from women. Oba­ma was prac­ti­cal­ly lean­ing in­to the blonde. Michelle didn't look amused.

You know I strug­gled with my love for women in my life­time. Un­like Oba­ma I was not blessed with a fan­tas­tic physique made for those paint­ed-on suits high-fly­er women like these days. You know, once I start­ed wear­ing a loin­cloth, my days of a debonair pro­fes­sion­al were over. I had no time for fit­tings of suits.

Man­dela: I re­spect you, Gand­hi, but I don't think even in a suit you had the fea­tures to make women swoon like my young prot�g� Oba­ma. An­oth­er woman wear­ing a spec­tac­u­lar cop­per and gold tra­di­tion­al out­fit with a high head­dress caught my eye be­cause she was not African.Gand­hi: Yes, I saw her. She is Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, of East In­di­an de­scent, from a West In­di­an twin-is­land state.

Man­dela: Well, Ba­pu, I didn't think I was see­ing right this far from earth. She looked good. I feel ho­n­oured, but I got the feel­ing that once she got there, she felt a lit­tle out of place. I like to see peo­ple's au­then­tic selves, and I wor­ried that she might have wast­ed pre­cious mo­ments of bi­lat­er­al bond­ing with world lead­ers ex­plain­ing who she rep­re­sent­ed.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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