DSK

Waking up last weekend to see DSK handcuffed---unshaven and ruffled as he was being taken to the Court for arraignment was like a nightmare for many of those who have been waiting eagerly for DSK to officially announce his fray for the French Presidential primaries.

They adored him. I was told this ‘man’ really has a charm in him and that he is the only one capable of dethroning the already hated and ridiculed French figure that Sarkozy has become of late.

Strauss Kahn—often our dinner table topic of discussion seemed to me to be, at the face of it a charming gentleman smart enough to have led the IMF at a time when the economy in this part of the world and elsewhere did not give people any reasons to smile.

“Europe is going down the drain”, uncle would tell me. “And, this Sarkozy is no good”, he often concluded as a matter of factly.

I feel sorry for DSK and much as I do for the victim. And, it is too early to make a personal judgment yet. But, I hope he gets bail today. My sympathy is with the French socialists.