Yunan-o-Misr-o-Roma Sab Mit Gaye Jahan Se; Ab Tak Magar Hai Baki Naam-o-Nishan Hamara; Kuchh Baat Hai Ke Hasti Mit’ti Nahin Hamari; Sadiyon Raha Hai Dushman Daur-e-Zaman Hamara. Thus praised Allama Iqbal the people of the Indian subcontinent. Then Shahrukh Khan sang: Thode anari hain thode khilari, ruk ruk ke chalti hai apni gaadi. This blog is an attempt to see which traits of my Indian DNA make me sturdy to last for centuries and which traits put brakes to my gaadi of development.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
How Can it be FAMILY FIRST sans you and me
There is a lot of rhetoric on Family First. India of 2014 is not the one-party (read Congress) Indian political system, which more or less ended with Pt Nehru. If you analyze the politics of over the last two decades, then you would understand that today it's near to impossible for a Gandhi scion to become PM unless people want him/her to be, no matter how hellbent are the Congressmen to see him/her as PM. In fact, in the past also, it were you and me who handed defeats and victories to Indira and Rajiv Gandhi. And, today the voter is highly awakened. Moreover, no matter how good is the past performance or family background of a film star, a politician or a sportsman, he/she will stop to be in the good books of the masses, if he fails to deliver. Raj Kapoor could not make all his sons good heroes (remember Rajiv and Randhir?). Viru is no more in the Test squad? Why? If Sachin fails in 2-3 innings, people and even experts want him out of the India XI. Why?
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