I was impatiently awaiting news on Modi’s anointment as BJP’s PM candidate for an entirely different reason. All the hocus pocus in the lotus camp were upsetting my Friday deadline and when it became apparent that any decision could see light only by twilight at best, I decided to commence my karmic duty, come what may.
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Lofty jargons like fiscal deficit, current account deficit etc make little sense to a populace caught in a chaotic economic scenario. But crystal clear to all is the credibility deficit, the refusal of our netas and babus to walk their talk. Clearly, the Government and politicians are unwilling to do what they want us to do.
I had resolved to steer clear of him this week, whatever the provocation. But then, the best laid plans of men, mice and me stand no chance against the malignant, albeit magnetic misdeeds, of MSingh’s rule. More so when the PM himself has made bold to address the nation over an economy, a powerhouse like Caesar that now lay in a pool of blood.
That files relating to a serious multi-crores scam can go missing from that ministry’s archives is itself sinister. But the lost files point to a larger loss: Missing character of the rulers, as a consequence of which people’s trust in public individuals and institutions have also gone missing. The nation indeed has lost something more valuable than money. The depletion in values and confidence levels beats the depreciating rupee hands down!
I Day had long ago ceased to be an occasion to display patriotism. At best it is one more national holiday, and when in the company of a weekend, it offers a great op to engage in man’s favourite pastime of doing nothing, at home or any tourist destination that beckons. The worst manifestation can be seen on the TV screens where patriotism is a sponsored show brought to you by anyone wanting to peddle anything under the sun. So why should I be any different?
All’s well that ends well. So what if five more dead jawans have been added to the long list of martyrs being sacrificed to Pakis in uniform or mufti or in whatever attire? Now that Defence Minister Antony has arrived at the correct statement, after a few typo trials and errors, is it not wise on the part of political ‘stall’-’warts’ cutting across parties to call a ceasefire and get back to disrupting Parli and governance on some other pretext?
Telangana has been conceived many times in the past and aborted as many times. The arguments, for and against it, are as valid today as they were all through these years, despite the changing shades and shenanigans of the protagonists and antagonists at every point in history.
The Planning Commission and politicos, the deciders of the nation’s fate, seem singularly poor-blind. The sordid spectacle being staged in the name of the poor is at once sinister and sickening: Sinister owing to the seamless political posturings across parties; and sick because of the utter insensitivity of the numbers-oriented debate. The question is not who is on the side of the poor but the pervasive presence of poor. And it is inhuman to see the poor as just an ‘economic problem’.
Tamil filmdom has the distinction of creating and nurturing some of the greatest artistic talents ever. But it also has the selfish habit of appropriating them wholly. The lure and lucre that cinema offer have kept many a genius away from the larger canvas that they deserve.