DEMOCRATIC ALZHEIMER
We all li
ve in a Democratic country, what do you say guys? Personally, I have read, listened, tasted, and even smelt the democracy of our 62-year-old grumpy country. Believe me, its good. Not only good, but also commendable. Generally, we Indians have an uncanny quality of comparing ourselves with the underprivileged ones, in whatsoever conditions we are in, and feel a sense of great pride in it. After all we are taught like this from our childhood days. Still I remember those primary school teachings, which I am sure most of us have been taught so. Like, ‘always compare with the inferior ones when you are in misery’, ‘participation is more important than winning’, etc. Sounds very good.
Now when this teaching is prevalent in Athletics, Music or I should say in any kind of competitive affairs, why not in politics? After all it’s the most fiercely fought sport of our country?
We have some wonderful teams, a couple of in the national domain and quite a few PRIVATE ONES in the state level. They all are terrific, having respective expertise in their DOMAIN. Their ultimate aim is to fight for the development of this country, and run it on the principles of our constitution. Now this is a very big writing, and not everyone’s cup of tea to read it completely. So I don’t complain much, when these old players sometimes deviate from it. It’s not so easy to remember it, and play this game always.
Its 20-20 time, you need to be DYNAMIC and frame on the ground strategies.
So when in the ‘SUMMER CAMP’ oops sorry!! I mean in the ‘BRAIN STORMIG CAMP’ of BJP the heads of the party decided to ask Mr. Singh to quit the party, I was not very astonished like the big hue and cry happening around. ‘Arre baba’ why so ‘hulla’, may be they forgot the page where DEMOCRACY was written. It might also happen, that the page have been tear off; after all it’s a pretty old almost 60 year old writing. And above that, the process of his outcast was pretty democratic, unlike Iran or Afghanistan.
I would blame Mr. Singh also, what was the need to play with such an old topic, he could have written about so many new happenings. Its 20-20 time Mr. Singh, not a test match. After playing in so many important positions, like Defense, Foreign Affairs, Finance, I don’t understand how he can make such a lopsided effort, strange. But once he left the team, the way he pounced upon ‘ADVANIji’ is commendable. The true soldier came out from the lieutenant colonel!!
The whole affairs in the practice session of Shimla, made one bold statement, that’s sure. Our democracy is in safe hands, the only thing we need, is to be little more patient and remember that primary teaching of ours, ‘Compare with the inferior one, when you are in a crisis’ you will see how good you feel. At least I am feeling pretty good.
We all li
ve in a Democratic country, what do you say guys? Personally, I have read, listened, tasted, and even smelt the democracy of our 62-year-old grumpy country. Believe me, its good. Not only good, but also commendable. Generally, we Indians have an uncanny quality of comparing ourselves with the underprivileged ones, in whatsoever conditions we are in, and feel a sense of great pride in it. After all we are taught like this from our childhood days. Still I remember those primary school teachings, which I am sure most of us have been taught so. Like, ‘always compare with the inferior ones when you are in misery’, ‘participation is more important than winning’, etc. Sounds very good.Now when this teaching is prevalent in Athletics, Music or I should say in any kind of competitive affairs, why not in politics? After all it’s the most fiercely fought sport of our country?
We have some wonderful teams, a couple of in the national domain and quite a few PRIVATE ONES in the state level. They all are terrific, having respective expertise in their DOMAIN. Their ultimate aim is to fight for the development of this country, and run it on the principles of our constitution. Now this is a very big writing, and not everyone’s cup of tea to read it completely. So I don’t complain much, when these old players sometimes deviate from it. It’s not so easy to remember it, and play this game always.
Its 20-20 time, you need to be DYNAMIC and frame on the ground strategies.
So when in the ‘SUMMER CAMP’ oops sorry!! I mean in the ‘BRAIN STORMIG CAMP’ of BJP the heads of the party decided to ask Mr. Singh to quit the party, I was not very astonished like the big hue and cry happening around. ‘Arre baba’ why so ‘hulla’, may be they forgot the page where DEMOCRACY was written. It might also happen, that the page have been tear off; after all it’s a pretty old almost 60 year old writing. And above that, the process of his outcast was pretty democratic, unlike Iran or Afghanistan.
I would blame Mr. Singh also, what was the need to play with such an old topic, he could have written about so many new happenings. Its 20-20 time Mr. Singh, not a test match. After playing in so many important positions, like Defense, Foreign Affairs, Finance, I don’t understand how he can make such a lopsided effort, strange. But once he left the team, the way he pounced upon ‘ADVANIji’ is commendable. The true soldier came out from the lieutenant colonel!!
The whole affairs in the practice session of Shimla, made one bold statement, that’s sure. Our democracy is in safe hands, the only thing we need, is to be little more patient and remember that primary teaching of ours, ‘Compare with the inferior one, when you are in a crisis’ you will see how good you feel. At least I am feeling pretty good.
Mr.Sainik, I have read your writing... the way you have written is pretty good but you have missed the broader political and social context of this issue.. the ideology of Mr. Advani and Mr. Singh are same and this issue is peripheral one.. I feel, the contradiction between Advani and Singh, is the contradiction between BJP and RSS and not more than that. So you should consider this angle also..
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Your way of writing is quite nice but I think there is no point in hailing Mr Singh as they all are on the same sinking boat(of RSS!!). They are just playing blame game at this point of time.
ReplyDeleteHey, I appreciate all your comments, but basically the post was not meant to condemn or hail Mr. Singh or Mr. Advani but an attempt to highlight the plight of ageing Indian democracy.....
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