Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare's puns in one of his most farcical comedy--The Comedy of Errors--gave a belly laugh to the audience way back in 1594 with a major part of humor coming from slapstick and mistaken identity.

And in 2013, his theme of the shortest comedy is being revisited time and again, by the man tipped to be the next PM of India, if NDA came to power in the next general elections.

Till now, the Primeminister-ship of any country is held in high esteem. And the man on the coveted post is supposed to be a man of depth, integrity, gravity, and well-educated.

No doubt, Mr Modi has most of the qualities required for a Prime Ministerial candidate, but his frequent slip of tongue in the election gatherings --on historical facts--is not only making mockery of his stature and personality but, is also giving butterflies in BJP's stomach lately. However, people say that he is on his way to making history.

It can be easily deduced from his sense of history that either he will change the way history is being taught, or will give the historians tough time in re-writing Indian history to suit his conscience.

It will be better if Mr Modi mends his ways with the historical facts, because, his minor mistakes and later retorting the facts only presages the time for BJP to come. If his party fails, he will go in oblivion or in history books as the man who couldn't make it to the PM's post of Pakistan or USA... err India, despite creating the sensation all over the country.

It will be better for him to take history lessons from Romila Thapar, or Ramchandra Guha or Bipin Chandra. Because, there is no age for learning and there will be no retake in the elections 2014.

Let's hope that this massage will be taken by Mr Modi  in stride, and from the next time he will speak no non-sense regarding history.