Her mars mission
Sushma Swaraj goes where no mantri has gone before. Sarkar is generally as short of a sense of humour as water flowing on Mars but foreign minister Sushma Swaraj is a first-class exception. So when some desi wag told her on Twitter that he was stuck on Mars, with food sent via Mangalyaan running out, she replied with some sauce of her own that the Indian embassy on Mars would help. Space no bar. Once upon a time she used to be seen as a prime ministerial candidate, these days as a presidential candidate. Whatever her past and future may hold, in the present she has totally redefined what it means to be India's external affairs minister. Instead of sulking because a PM phenomenally active in foreign policy has stolen her job's thunder, Sushma Swaraj has fashioned herself into a people's mini ster par extraordinaire, a sort of rescuer-in-chief, dependable and responsive 24x7 whether it's Indian nurses in war-torn Iraq or just an aam admi wondering why his passport is taking too long to arrive ¬ as if it were coming from Mars. When someone tagged her about his defective refrigerator, instead of shutting him down like a blue-blooded mantri she gently explained to the `brother' that she was very busy with human beings in distress and couldn't spare time for machines. Sobriety coaches who criticise her for being too approachable should know how good a sense of humour is for health ¬ even of the nation. In another possible upside, they say aliens don't eat wags. Why? Because they taste funny.
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