Readers of Tarantula are already familiar with the last lesson in Politics. The first lesson, however, is whenever a statement creates a problem for you or your high command, immediately deny it and throw the blame on media. By the time PC awoke next morning, it was far too late in the day, both literally and metaphorically, to retract for several reasons. Despite overcoming the hangover and HBS education, he could not recollect the first political lesson, however hard he tried. Others who were all eminently capable of reminding him were are all too busy in doing damage control. Hence, he could not withdraw his statement so far.
Now he is doing what is best under the circumstances; let others handle the situation and after all, silence continues to be golden.
LOL ..
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of the age-old saying ,"Do not do a job out of desperation,it will only backfire". The best way to address the problem is to tackle it head on and not shoving it under the carpet.
The person in question could have retired for the day(bhai jaldi kya padi thi ..),collected,composed and organised his thoughts over a cuppa coffee(I need not extol the virtues of coffee,all telugus are aware of this :-)) and then taken a stance.
very unusual from PC to have done that, but we should also understand that he was under a lot of pressure to find a solution as nobody was coming forward to address the problem.
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