Why are ministers serving in the Modi government so arrogant towards even the media and so evasive about everything, including the most innocent of questions? Why are they so quick to take offence and bristle with righteous indignation at the simplest of queries? Why the thin skin?
You have been in power for long enough for you to be civil and measured in your approach and response to being questioned about the very job you are supposed to be doing. What’s with the snark and sarcasm? What are you so angry about?
I can understand a Smriti Irani or an Anurag Thakur using offence as the only form of defence (or should I say that they are offensive when on the defensive?) they know. But even the better educated, the more articulate people like Nirmala Sitharaman are constantly angry and feigning being attacked by everyone when they interact with the general public and even the press, which is perhaps the most compromised of all the pillars of democracy in India.
And now, recently, I have been noticing S Jaishankar do the same. It is like a petulant teenager throwing a tantrum by weaponising snark as a mechanism to show their rebellion without cause, throwing shade at everyone around them with a sense of superiority that stems from inexperience and naivete, something mature adults around them seem to view with amusement and indulgence, seeing the whole affair as a passing phase and a part of growing up. It’s cute. Except that he isn’t a teenager. Just petulant.
