Austerity!

http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/rahul_gandhi_goes_trekking.php

I am not against people having fun at times (and go for a vacation) but I am against some people preaching others to live in austerity and then themselves enjoying the pleasures of life (of course when away from public)

I am not against people who wear expensive clothes but I am against those who wear a khaadi kurtah all the time in front of the cameras(when the public who considers them God is seeing them) and otherwise come to their natural expensive self.

I am not against people being indifferent to the needy but I am against those who are hypocrites.

PS:
1. The father of Indian Socialism (Nehru) had all the expensive luxuries at his home but had the audacity to prevent any person become rich due to his 'principles' (of bridging the class divide.)
2. His daughter who gave the slogan "garibi hatao" and taxed 97% of people's wealth had given her youngest son airplanes. Sadly the same son died while he was performing a loop by a newly (by whose money?) brought aircraft.
3. Her daughter in law (Sonia) whose government thinks that this poor country doesn't have money to pay IIT professors decently, sent her son to study in a college in Florida. (You can imagine a college in Florida- like a college in Goa!)
And then I think deeply that there is nothing wrong in it, after all as Amitabh Bachchan famously said- there can be no comparison between us and them-"wo raaja hain, hum rank hain"!

PPS: Rahul famously started traveling in a train rather than a flight, so as to save money for the poor farmers. And his sensitive, emotional, benevolent response was widely reported. Has anyone any clue how many times that sensitive, emotional, benevolent act was repeated!