Off the mark

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one of the better speakers among Indian politicians and has a flair for alliteration, particularly when speaking in Hindi. For instance, when Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro)'s Mars Orbiter Mission reached Mars on September 24, 2014, he had said, "Today, Mangal (Mars) has got MoM", borrowing from the title of a 2011 Walt Disney animation movie (Mars Needs Mom). But sometimes such wordplay could go off the mark. On Tuesday, Modi inaugurated the India-Kazakhstan Centre of Excellence in Information and Computer Technology in Astana (Kazakhstan) that houses the India-made supercomputer, Param. Around the same time, his Twitter handle, @PMOIndia, quoted from his speech: "Super computer will do super computing and will be the reason for super commitment." The tweet was greeted with much mirth on social media. Suryanarayan Ganesh, @gsurya, tweeted: "Hope @narendramodi didn't say clouds do cloud computing and Tata Nano does nano computing." Snoop-Sarkar, @Raun551, asked: "Rahul Gandhi ka script writer hire kiye ho kya (have you hired Rahul Gandhi's script writer)?"