Sibal: I am messed up in political world
Union minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday wore a poet’s coat in front of a small but cherishable audience and regretted that his life was messed up in the world of politics. Mr Sibal was talking after the launch of his second book, My World Within.
Inside the poet’s coat, Mr Sibal’s heart bled for love and justice in society. “I am messed up in the world of politics,” he said, in a public conversation with NDTV group editor Barkha Dutt.
However, he added that politics offered him the maximum exposure to the society he lived in, making him witness the real life. “It shakes you up. And ‘my world within’ is a reflection of my world outside,” he said
For that reason, unlike the other politicians, Mr Sibal does not see “words” as something that often return to haunt him. He finds words as a reflection of his “self”. And it flows out from him through poetry.
He stole time from his busy life and saved his verses on his mobile phone when he travelled by air or by road.
His poems revealed his thoughts on a mix of material and philosophical things ranging from Gods, politics, love, Ajmal Kasab, motherhood, terrorism and much more.
He filled his poems with jest and humour.
Mr Sibal’s contemporaries in politics, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, formed the characters in many of his verses.
At times, he got angry with God and declared that his God is his “contemporary.”
He ridiculed the Left politics saying it “could not just see beyond its nose.” However, he recalled that he was a leftist himself during his college days. “There should be something wrong with those who are not leftists at the age of 18. There should be something equally wrong with those who are leftist after the age of 30,” he said.
The teacher-turned lawyer-turned politician concluded by saying that he will end his career by returning to his first profession of teaching. As of now, Mr Sibal’s poems could be his lessons for the society.
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