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நாம் அறிந்த ராகுல் காந்தி வேறு….
இங்கே காட்சியளிக்கும் ராகுல் வேறு –

அரசியல்வாதியாக அல்ல – ஒரு தனி மனிதனாக,
ராகுல் காந்தி எப்படிப்பட்டவர், அவர் பிறப்பு, வளர்ப்பு, படிப்பு,
தொழில், அனுபவம், பயணங்கள், பழக்க வழக்கங்கள், எதிர்பார்ப்புகள்,
ஆகியவற்றைப்பற்றி, அவருடன் விவாதிக்கிறார் காமியா ஜனி
என்னும் யூ-ட்யூப் ஜர்னலிஸ்ட்…..

இந்த சந்திப்பு நிகழ்ந்தது ராகுல் காந்தியின் பாரத் ஜோடோ யாத்ரா
ராஜஸ்தான் எல்லையில் இருந்தபோது … அவர் இரவில் தங்கியிருக்கும்
கன்டெயினர் டிரக்கின் முன் போடப்பட்டுள்ள ஒரு டைனிங்க் டேபிளில்
அமர்ந்து –

ரிலீஸானது ….2 நாட்களுக்கு முன்னர்….!!!

சுவாரஸ்யமான அந்த பேட்டியிலிருந்து சில பகுதிகள் கீழே….
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“Just a loving person who’s intelligent” —
Rahul Gandhi shares his thought about
marriage, partner….
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spoke on various topics with “Curly Tales” editor-in-chief Kamiya Jani over
dinner during the interview –

“Just a loving person who’s intelligent,” Rahul says when asked what kind of girl he’d like to marry.

During the course of the interview, Rahul further
talks about his solo biking trip across Spain, and
being a scuba diver. He also talks about his
schooling, early life, ‘fights’ with his sister
and more. He reveals that he meditates while
walking during the Yatra which began in September.

He clarifies that he’s “very strict” with his food
at home and doesn’t eat a lot of things. He calls
his diet “boring” and “controlled”. “But here
I don’t have much choice.” Rahul says Telangana,
for example, was a “little bit spicy” for his
palate. “The chillies were a bit over the top.
I don’t eat that much chillies.”

At home, he has desi food for lunch and dinner is
“some sort of continental stuff”.

In Delhi, his favourite restaurants are Moti Mahal, Sagar and Sarvana Bhavan….!!!

He also likes tandoori food and a “good omelette”,
does not like rice or roti and usually drinks just
one cup of coffee in the morning.

Homeschooled after Indira’s death –

While explaining where he comes from, Rahul says
that he’s a “Kashmiri Pandit who moved to Uttar Pradesh.”

“Our family was from Kashmir but they moved to Allahabad. My grandfather-papa’s papa- was Parsi.
So I’m a complete mix,” he says.

He then says that he had to be homeschooled after
his grandmother, former PM Indira Gandhi, was assassinated and he was taken out of boarding
school due to security concerns.

“It was a big shock to me as I was in boarding
school. Then one day before Dadi’s (Indira’s) death,
we were taken out of there. When Dadi died, they
didn’t allow us to go back.”

In school, Rahul reminisces, some teachers were
“overly nice” to him while some were “really nasty”, because of the family he came from.

“The political position that my family used to take
was quite a pro-poor position. And so a lot of the people who were teachers, I don’t think they
appreciated that. But there were others who were
sort of nice. So it was a balance,” he says.

Jani then says that there are a lot of colleges
listed against his name on the Internet and asks
him for details.

Rahul says that he went to St. Stephen’s for a year
and studied history,
and then entered Harvard University where he
studied international relations and politics.
After that, he says, he had to transfer from there following his father’s death, again due to security concerns.

Thereafter, he went to a college in Florida,
Rollins College, where he studied international relations and economics. He also has a Masters
degree in development economics from Cambridge University, UK.

Unlike in school, Rahul says, he received a
“neutral perspective” in college.

Giving details of his first paycheck, he says that
he had a corporate job in London at the age of
24-25 with a strategic consulting company
called Monitor.

He got paid about 2,500-3,000 pounds a month,
Rahul said, adding that he felt “strange” about
it since it was “a lot” of money.

Apart from his college life, Rahul says that the
death of his father also changed his relationship
with his younger sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra,
now Congress general secretary.

“We grew up with a whole bunch of violence around us.
A lot of that was internally causing stress and
stuff. So, we used to fight a lot. Then after
Papa died, it just stopped.”

The Beard –

Jani also goes on to ask Rahul a question about his
“new look” that everyone has been seeking an
answer to. She was referring to Rahul’s beard that
has been a political and comical talking point
since the Yatra began.

“I just felt like I shouldn’t shave my beard
or cut my hair during the Yatra. It’s nice.
It’s a bit big now, it’s getting bigger. It makes
life a little complicated when you’re eating,”
Rahul jokes.

He also says that many within the party have
asked him to shave it off but he’s not relented.
“It’ll change,” he says when asked if he likes
the look.

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ராகுலைப்பற்றி, தொடர்ந்து நமது டெல்லி மீடியாக்கள்
உருவாக்கி வரும் தோற்றத்திற்கும் –

நிஜத்திற்கும் ரொம்ப தூரம் என்பது இந்த பேட்டியில் –
அவரது, சொற்கள், உடல்மொழி ஆகியவற்றிலிருந்து நன்கு புரிகிறது.

நான் 8-10 வருடங்களுக்கு முன்னதாக பார்த்த ராகுலுக்கும்,
தற்போதைய ராகுலுக்கும் எக்கச்சக்கமான வித்தியாசங்களை
பார்க்கிறேன்.

தன்னை மாற்றிக்கொள்ள வேண்டும் என்கிற ஆர்வமும்,
அதற்கான உழைப்பும், வில்-பவரும் இருந்தால்,
யாரும் மாறலாம் என்பதற்கு ராகுலின் இந்த வித்தியாசங்கள்
ஒரு மிகச்சிறந்த உதாரணம்.

2024 – பாராளுமன்ற தேர்தலுக்குப் பிறகு –
ஒரு வலுவான,
கணிசமான மக்களின் ஆதரவுடன் கூடிய –
எதிர்க்கட்சித் தலைவராக ராகுல் உருவாகக்கூடும் ….!!!

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