Day 2 - Politics Tamasha

Day 2 - 25th July, 2008

Finally the great summer of UK is coming to an end for me when i will be heading back home. I think this was most the fruitful 4 months spent in UK since i have been here.

I am sure everybody saw the big tamasha in the Parliament on the trust vote day. Lot of criticism and lot of shame. The other angle of the Parliament Paradox is that YES India still is the most democratic nation in the world. A person could come to the top most legislative house and demonstrate what he was being offered (or put up an act of that). I am not defending what happened. But there was a lot of praise in the US NRI media after the incident and coined "Upholder of the democracy".

IS this what we want or is this the new face of Indian politics.

At the same time it is a delight to see "JAAGO INDIA Party" 's advert in India Today - the one with Amar Singh at the cover. If you guys recall it is the same party formed by ex-IITians to remove corruption and bring young intellectual Indians in the mainstream politics. More of Mani Ratnam's Yuva may be.

Some friends, journalists, critics found Rahul Gandhi to be quite mature and articulate in the script he recited in the parliament. It took him 5 hours to write down what an Indian thinks and how was he defending the government's actions by not talking about the transparency in the Nuclear Deal or was he trying to avoid the subject because he knew little about it just like all other INDIANS.

People like to laugh even if Laloo makes no sense in his jokes. Is it just the manner in which he speaks or is it the content what he speaks that is funny. Or is it that the only thing left with him now is his funny manner with no content in it. It was disheartening to see news channels giving him all attention and praise for his crap yet again.

Today's blog was about crisis in the Indian Politics and how helpless one feels about it.

Anyways hope India Performs better on DAY 3. All the best to Sachin.

Cheers,

Shashank