Author: Partha Banerjee

Clint Eastwood put an imaginary President Barack Obama in a chair and asked him questions at the Republican National Convention.
What if an ordinary, unknown Indian-American was to put Republican candidate Mitt Romney in a chair and ask him some hard-hitting questions which are on the minds of all Americans?

Facing an invisible Romney in the chair, social activist Partha Banerjee asks, “Considering you are planning to be commander in charge of not just America but de facto of the world, people like me all over the world are eagerly waiting for your honest, thoughtful and straightforward answers.
Don’t haze it. Don’t faze it.”
So here you have it, 12 questions for Mitt Romney from the Ordinary Citizen. Guest Blog.

“I was feeling very tired just by imagining what Troy was going through at that time. I was internalizing the feeling of sadness, hopelessness, frustration about the mighty, glorified U.S. justice system, and a bone-chilling feeling of death — as if Lord Yama, the God of Death was knocking at his doorstep, to fetch him. I could not take it anymore. I went to sleep.”
(Guest Blog)

“Ten, fifteen, twenty thousand killed, blinded and maimed and their distraught families keep screaming – in person or in spirit – on Bhopal and New Delhi streets. We’ll compensate them with some small money and then turn the page on the history book and move forward; better yet, erase that history from newly published text books. Happily, in today’s Jai Ho Incredible India, nobody gives a hoot about history. So, no bother.” – Partha Banerjee, social activist.