Vijay Ho!

Bloggers are happy that liquor baron Vijay Mallya bought Gandhiji's belongings.u00a0

"The spirited soul, who has never faced liquidity problems, being always well-stocked with the right kind of spirited liquids, entered the race to serve our country," says one blogger.
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"You can imagine the millions of citizens, who would have done this small jig and exclaimed, Vijay Ho! Even those who are faithful to their "country" (as in "country liquor", as they call the local brew or arrack), but cannot afford the IMFL, would have joined in this jig for good measure," he adds.u00a0

Sushat Bahadur attacks those who question the propriety of a liquor baron buying items belonging to Gandhiji, a staunch promoter of abstinence from alcohol. "Where were these people when the items were being auctioned, and why didn't they bid? They could have 'protected' the heritage of Gandhiji by buying the items themselves!

And this all, at a stage when diplomatic pressure from the Indian government had failed to prevent the auction and a bidding process seemed to be the only way to bring back the items to India," he writes.