“Caesar's wife must be above suspicion”-Tharoor too.

“Caesar's wife must be above suspicion” is a famous proverb. The meaning is:
the associates of public figures must not even be suspected of wrongdoing. Is it not applicable to Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, the associate of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh? Some people arguing in favour of Tharoor says:“the Minister has the freedom to keep his personal secrets”. This argument is undesirable.

Who is this Sunanda Pushkar? She has 18 percent stake in the Rendezvous consortium, new sponsor for IPL from Kochi. Tharoor says he has no relation with Pushkar, but media reports say otherwise. Sunanda is going to be his third wife after Thilothama and Christa. Tharoor is in the making of a Krishna (not his cabinet minister)

It is the western culture to have more than one wife. However, the people there never permit their leaders to have more than one wife. If a leader has unholy relation with his secretary or subordinate he has to face the music and that we have seen in the case of American President Bill Clinton. But in India the situation is different. While ordinary people lead a contented life with one wife and one family the leaders have a different set up. Shashi Tharoor is a minister with western culture so he ought to have followed the culture of western leaders but he advantageously adopted the Indian culture. The Prime Ministr Manmohan Singh should ask his minister to follow the western culture of leaders or at least ask him to stop his soul searching with Sunanda Pushkar.

JW