The gate that opens doors!!!

The humble gate is normally associated with hope, memory, and if you wish, more spiritually with the Pearly’s, the final frontier you so badly wish opened up to you ultimately, but never will. The plurality of the same also brings to mind the world’s richest family and their claim to affluence thanks to the lesser cousin the Windows.

Well, the humility of the gate turned villainous in the early 70’s, thanks to a politically motivated burglary that took place in the Watergate Complex / Hotel in Washington DC that eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon. Nixon’s long gone but not before leaving behind the legacy of the gate and turning in his grave ever so often. Each time a scandal pops up in any part of the world it immediately gets suffixed with what I call the Nixon legacy, the GATE. A legacy not even our friends Raju and Raja (sounds more like an audit firm) could earn with all their efforts in siphoning off more zeroes than one could imagine.

In the recent past India has been a diligent contributor to the list of gates. The list of internationally acclaimed gates you will find here. The list is long enough to run 2 rounds of a pub quiz on gates.

India’s recent contributions to the list have been Foddergate, Spectrumgate or Rajagate, Porngate which could have been rechristened the Applegate since they were using their I pads for the same, and more recently the Coalgate. With all the visibility the homonym ‘Colgate’ is getting it will not be long before Uniliver starts lobbying for a Closeupgate. In fact, the first time I came across ‘Coalgate’, I really thought it was scam related to toothpastes until I read further and realised it is more about black than white.

Let’s not forget to mention some of the earliest contributors who helped India in our effort to conquer the gates. Shilpagate, any one found crying in a reality show since were honoured with the title of Shilpagate. The monkeygate of the famed Sydney cricket test down under, any swearing / sledging in cricket these days are benchmarked against the monkeygate. The protagonist of the monkeygate was fortunate to be part of the Slapgate too.

Wish we could soon have a major water scam in India which could finally reunite the gate with its original prefix and return it to its past glory the Watergate. India could proudly wrest the initiative from the US and let Nixon sleep in peace ever after.