Navjot Singh Sidhu’s endless belief in his own greatness — or, in Punjabi, his fukraapuna — has assumed dangerous proportions.

Gustakhi Maaf Haryana-Pawan Kumar Bansal.

Courtesy Aarish Chhabra.Navjot Singh Sidhu saheb’s endless belief in his own greatness — or, in Punjabi, his fukraapuna — has assumed dangerous proportions, and can possibly kill someone. He is now going around saying he knows a “real” cure to cancer.
Listen, if you get cancer, please see a doctor. Doctors will always prepare you mentally for the worst. That’s their job. Evidence-based medical science works on that principle.
But Sidhu saheb’s self-importance can lead to you to believe it’s all about the right diet!
You must know that his wife beat cancer with the help of doctors. She underwent surgery, chemo and the whole thing.
Diet would generally play a part in most things, but Sidhu saheb has a dire need to be the hero of every story that he’s part of. He probably doesn’t even realise this, but that’s how delusions, especially the ones driven by honest emotion, work. The emotion is genuine; the delusion is, well, still a delusion.
That’s why he thinks the diet, which he researched about and administered to his wife, must be the main cure for her cancer.
He has blind faith in his own greatness.
Don’t be blind to that. Don’t be an idiot. Don’t end up dying because he spoke with conviction at a press conference.
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Medical science evolves constantly, and that’s what makes it look uncertain or conservative or self-doubting at times, but that is in fact what makes it superior to belief alone.
Baaki, rabb raakha!