Is It Sonia Effect?

Pope John Paul the II, was the pontiff for 26 years. Same as my age! Leaders across the world have sent their condolence messages and it is really sad that a man who represented peace in this era had passed away.

Two news items in today's newspaper caught my attention and made me think. Item one the problem of Prince Charles' marriage on coming Friday clashing with Funeral of the Pope. Now that is a real problem for Charles. After so many years he is finally going to marry Camilla Parker and divine intervention has put a spanner into that! Well let him get married, poor fellow has been waiting desperately for so many years for official sanction for his relationship with Camilla Parker.

The other news item is that India is in state mourning for the next three days out of respect for His Holiness the Pope. I wonder in which capacity of the Pope, has this state mourning been announced? Is it in the capacity of the Head of the Vatican? But then we don't have state mourning for death of the Head of States of other countries. We didn't do any such thing when President Kennedy was assassinated nor any other prominent Head of State. Is it in the capacity of The Pope being the Leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics. Well here again there is no precedent. And if this is to set precedence then in India will the government declare State Mourning at the time of death of every religious leader irrespective of the religion. I don't think so. Then why for Pope John Paul II ? Is it the Remote Control that is operating the Indian Government which has pressed a button to cause this effect? Seems very likely, doesn't it?

Well if things continue as they are currently in Indian Politics, then I think very soon we will be having holidays as per Italian holiday calendar!