{"id":5697,"date":"2016-06-05T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T13:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2016-06-05T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T13:07:22","slug":"shashi-tharoor-kunal-karma-better-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5697","title":{"rendered":"One Mic Stand: Shashi Tharoor Pulls a Kunal Kamra, Just in Better English"},"content":{"rendered":"\nT<\/span>here\u2019s a dialogue in season four of <\/span>The West Wing<\/span><\/i>. President Josiah \u201cJed\u201d Bartlet is prepping for a speech during his bid for re-election. He uses a word \u2014 I can\u2019t remember what it was \u2014 one doesn\u2019t typically expect to hear in conversation. It\u2019s not a word that would have you scratching your head or discreetly reaching for the dictionary in embarrassment \u2014 anyone who was educated using English as their first language would likely know what it means. It\u2019s just something most people don\u2019t or won\u2019t use while talking because there are so many easier alternatives that roll off the tongue silkily without running the risk of making the speaker seem like <\/span>that <\/span><\/i>guy<\/span><\/a>. You know, the one who seems like they are using their words to actually perform verbal calisthenics. Maybe something like exacerbate. Why would you exacerbate a volatile situation when you can simply worsen it? Most of us won\u2019t, which is fine. Coming back to President Bartlet \u2014 he veers off-script and throws in his exacerbate-like bomb. Someone from his team quickly corrects him. He insists on using the more sophisticated synonym. The scene ends with him saying something to the effect of, \u201cWhen you have an education, don\u2019t be afraid to use\/show it.\u201d\u00a0\n\nThat\u2019s not a direct quote, and I\u2019ll admit I\u2019m hazy on the details; it\u2019s been over a decade since I last saw the show. Google has been of surprising little help. But it\u2019s one of those nonchalantly mind-blowing moments in a series that is packed with them. It\u2019s a scene and a sentiment I\u2019ve recalled many times, especially when I\u2019ve been accused of being \u201cthat guy\u201d. When you have an education, don\u2019t be afraid to show it, goddammit.\u00a0\n\nIndian politics and politicians don\u2019t offer us too many opportunities to be quietly inspired. Save for a doctorate in economics here and an <\/span>IITian<\/span><\/a> there, the evidence of education in politics has been slim and fleeting. Which is why, perhaps, we\u2019ve collectively come to treat <\/span>Dr Shashi Tharoor\u2019s tweets<\/span><\/a> as language porn, helping us get off at a time when more political capital is spent on insisting about the life-saving properties of cow urine than the life-destroying impact of unemployment. Sure, a good vocabulary is no indicator of a politician\u2019s ability to govern, but it\u2019s comforting to know that at least some of our elected leaders went to school, and hopefully, college.\u00a0\n\nI had high hopes from the Shashi Tharoor episode of <\/span>One Mic Stand<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Amazon Prime<\/span><\/a> Video\u2019s latest stand-up show. Let us acknowledge that it was a casting coup, if there ever was one. How often do you get a sitting MP agreeing to entertain a roomful of his country\u2019s youngsters with jokes \u2014 live, no less, minus the protection afforded by tweets that, though funny, have most likely been sharpened, edited, and vetted by multiple people before they see the light of the day? Not too often. But my hopes from Dr Tharoor\u2019s stand-up outing, unfortunately, were all cruelly dashed.\n\n

When you have an education, Dr Tharoor, don\u2019t be afraid to show it. \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nOne Mic Stand<\/span><\/i> follows a fairly simple format with an interesting premise. Each celebrity is paired with a comic who serves as their opening<\/span> act<\/span><\/a>, in addition to the host, Sapan Verma. For obvious reasons, Dr Tharoor\u2019s comedy companion was Kunal Kamra, the only political comedian in the country. The episode opens with Verma and Kamra meeting with Dr Tharoor in Bengaluru, roughly 24 hours before the filming of the episode. Great pains are taken to establish that Dr Tharoor is thoroughly unprepared \u2014 24 hours to go before the performance and he doesn\u2019t yet know his material. I don\u2019t know if this was supposed to soften the audience, and it might have, if the sentiment wasn\u2019t parroted with what seemed like mild hysteria. Sure, this might be Dr Tharoor\u2019s first comedy act, but the man has spent almost 30 years in the UN, many of which were spent in communications. He retired after finishing second in the 2006 selection for UN Secretary-General. He\u2019s been a member of the <\/span>Lok Sabha<\/span><\/a> since 2009, and held two important portfolios within Dr Manmohan Singh\u2019s Council of Ministers. Not to mention the 17 books he\u2019s written \u2014 a pretty good indicator of <\/span>how<\/span><\/i> good he is at cramming complex historical information in his brain. If there ever was a man who doesn\u2019t need violent head-shaking, second-hand nervousness, and awe that he managed to memorise 15 minutes worth of material for the stage, <\/span>it\u2019s Dr Shashi Tharoor<\/span><\/i>. If anything, as a fan, I\u2019m almost offended on his behalf \u2014 just getting it right should hardly be an achievement for someone like him.\u00a0\n\nWhich leads me to the principal cause of my disappointment, and the reason why I rambled on about education for the first half of this article. It\u2019s not that Dr Tharoor\u2019s set was bad, it wasn\u2019t. There were several chuckle-worthy allusions to his appointment as \u201cIndia\u2019s unofficial English teacher,\u201d as Verma puts it; some earnest-but-not-terribly-funny bits about the inscrutable millennial \u201clingo\u201d; and, of course, some subtle and not-so-subtle digs at all the baffling \u2014 and <\/span>depressing<\/span><\/a> \u2014 goings on in the country. All of these were wrapped up neatly with a small history lesson slipped between British colonialism jokes to leave the audience with a tantalising whiff of Dr Tharoor\u2019s intellect \u2014 just enough to help us feel like we\u2019ve been a part of something smarter than ourselves, but not so much that it makes us think of him as <\/span>that guy. <\/i>\n\nThe thing is, I <\/span>wanted <\/span><\/i>Dr Tharoor to be that guy. We desperately need <\/span>that guy <\/span><\/i>within our <\/span>political<\/span><\/a> class. The one who brings gravitas, intellectual rigour, and an enviably vast body of knowledge to the dais even before he opens his mouth. We know that Tharoor is all that and more, and yet all <\/span>One Mic Stand<\/span><\/i> manages to achieve is showing us his likeable, charming side. Look, he\u2019s the guy you can hang out with, probably even get a beer with, <\/span>One Mic Stand<\/span><\/i> seems to be telling us. But I \u2014 we \u2014 don\u2019t need him to be relatable. We needed him to be cutting and crisp, to shame us out of the political coma most of us seem to have slipped into as we wait to hear on our Canadian PR application status. Tell me I\u2019m wrong?\u00a0\n\nFew politicians in the country, possibly even in the world, have the kind of command that Dr Tharoor has on the stage and the language he chooses to conduct himself in. He, his team of writers, and his mentor Kamra could have spent those 15 minutes fusing humour with brutal questions of complicity in the ongoing tragicomedy that is the current political situation in the country, but all they do is play to the gallery, grasp at the lowest hanging fruits, pat themselves on the back, and leave. You don\u2019t watch Shashi Tharoor so you can see him pulling a <\/span>Kunal Kamra<\/span><\/a>, just in better English and minus the profanities; you watch him because he is among the few leaders left who can remind us what it means to have someone demonstrably better than ourselves leading us. I was hoping for a blistering monologue about how we all need to pull our collective political pants up before the establishment strips us down to our underwear from Dr Tharoor. What I got instead was a feeble \u201clet\u2019s blame Nehru\u201d as a parting shot. Like we haven\u2019t heard that joke a million times before from every comic and even non-comic on Twitter.\u00a0\n\nWhen you have an education, Dr Tharoor, don\u2019t be afraid to show it.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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