Babu Culture!

Anand's Nationality:Babus are very rational and stickler of norms in our country. Before reaching any conclusion and for that matter any decision they go in for check and cross check and recheck. Recent Anand episode is a case in point. Babus don’t believe what all people believe. They’re never swayed by emotion or ever go without documents, that too written ones. Without concrete proof they believe nothing. Viswanath Anand has been living in Spain for a long time, though he visits India at least once a year. So our Babus rationally or notionally took it for granted that Anand's definitely adopted citizenship of Spain and has become a Spaniard. So they questioned his nationality.Anand’s wife sent photo copy of her husband’s passport. But in these days of fudged passports they were last persons to accept it as the conclusive proof nationality. That apart Anand is a renowned chess player. His job is to checkmate others by clever moves. So Babus refused to be checkmated by Anand.Howeever, the issue was resolved by direct intervention of Kapil Sibal, Minister MHRD who apologized also for this unnecessary harassment. What’s unfortunate University of Hyderabad which decided to confer honorary Doctorate upon Anand along with others couldn’t fulfill their mission as the nationality issue and other queries could not be sorted out before convocation, thanks to procrastination of Babus.However,though hurt Anand has shown the grace to agree to accept the Degree later at a convenient date.