The Bushman cometh-India awaits the visit with baited breath

Frankly, my dear

Beating about the Bush

By Antara Dev Sen |

The Bushman cometh. Curiously, India awaits the visit with baited breath, uneasy expectations and raised protest-placards. I wonder why.

For whatever the Bushman speaks will be incomprehensible, whatever he promises will be forgotten and denied and whatever he sees will be lost on him.


He will of course be charming in his Forrest-Gump-As-Clint-Eastwood kind of way. He may start the trip with the warmth he showed on his visit to Brazil (“Wow! Brazil is big!”) or to Denmark (“I look forward to a good night’s sleep on the soil of a friend.”).

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He will ramble on as he has done before about shared grief at the hands of terrorists (“It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.”), about democracy (“Who could have possibly envisioned an erection — an election in Iraq at this point in history?”), fighting terror (“But Iraq has — have got people there that are willing to kill, and they're hard-nosed killers. And we will work with the Iraqis to secure their future.”) and world peace (“the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice!”).

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Finally, the Prez will wallow in buddy-feel and may make our Prime Minister sit up straighter than ever discussing foreign policy (“I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy”), and make the PM’s generous smile tighter than ever with comments on neighbours (“President Musharraf, he’s still tight with us on the war against terror, and that's what I appreciate. He's a — he understands that we've got to keep al-Qaida on the run, and that by keeping him on the run, it's more likely we will bring him to justice…”).

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Pretty predictable.