Modi's wife, Rahul's girlfriend: What India is searching for

What is the latest Rahul Gandhi joke? Who is Narendra Modi’s wife? These, according to Google, are the most burning queries in the mind of the average Indian, with days to go before polling starts in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Ah yes, the ‘Sunny Leone hot’, ‘Kim Kardashian baby name’, ‘IPL dates’ and ‘Who married Sreesanth’ is possibly still leading search, but in these times of political drama, their less colourful counterparts - the Modis and Gandhis are also catching up. [caption id=“attachment_1451907” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image.[/caption] According to a Google trends report, here is what the nation wants to know about our politicos: Narendra Modi’s live speeches, biography and wife. Rahul Gandhi’s interview, jokes, girlfriend. Arvind Kejriwal’s news, family, resignation.

What India wants to know about its politicians by Firstpost

And what does that tell us about… umm… us? Possibly the following: - The Met should acquire Narendra Modi to fix its sloppy prediction results. Unless, he has a highly devoted analytics group working overtime, it’s almost uncanny that he announced his Bharatvijay series of rallies (which threaten to break Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’s run-time record) almost simultaneously with Google releasing its most-searched data report. He has gifted the country 185 rallies and given that his live speeches are the top searched items, he just made the country very happy. NaMo on loop  = Honey Singh after char bottle vodka, no? -  Why are people searching for his biography on Google, when all you need to say is ‘Narendra Modi who’ on Twitter? Must be either Nitish Kumar fans who are offended that Taxila has been forcefully annexed to Bihar. Or Bengalis miffed at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee being Gujaratified without their permission or knowledge. - Who is searching for Modi’s wife? I suspect,Salman Khurshid, Congress’ candidate for Bigg Boss, like we noted earlier. - People have also been furiously searching for Rahul Gandhi’s interviews. Sign that the country misses both Govinda and David Dhawan more than you had imagined. - We are also looking for Rahul’s girlfriend. Hoping that Rahul would follow suit and leave the ‘system’ alone. - Oh, we are also searching for his jokes. Or jokes about him. Time Facebook made a JokeVille on Facebook where you got the most points for growing a Rahul joke. And send Digvijaya Singh requests to help you grow one. (Zuckerburg, are you listening?) - On the other hand, the only ’news’ we care about is Arvind Kejriwal’s. We are either closeted muffler connoisseurs (Bengalis and monkey caps, beware and feel threatened already) or we all suspected Kejriwal has some flu that even Modi has no fix for. Hence, we kept wanting ’news’ of him everyday. - His family? Probably to figure out what kind of a wife would actually have the husband deny her a bungalow in Lutyens? - We have also searched extensively for Kejriwal’s ‘resignation’. Like every KKR fan (outside Bengal and not a Bengali) searched for ‘Sourav Ganguly dumped by Shah Rukh after the first IPL series. With Kejriwal stomping all over the country, this is a search that will not die down anytime soon!