This blog post is about two great men. One of them is legal luminary Fali S. Nariman, former additional solicitor general of India. Before I tell you about the 'other great man', let us share a joke which Fali narrated during an interview to The Week magazine (July 28, 2013). "In a room of 12 Bawajis (old men), 13 are mad. How is that possible?" Fali asks the interviewer. Then he himself answers, "Because at least one is, like me, double-pagal."
Again, before telling you about the 'other great man', I tell you what makes the 'other great man' that he thinks like Fali. In The Week interview, Fali says, "One has to think about a country that has given you so much. It's a fantastic country despite all its governance. I share a view that most don't, that this was the time when parties with different ideologies should have got together to form a national government to tackle the economic crises and governance issues, like they do in wartime."
The 'other great man' is I myself. For the last 2-3 months I have also been thinking like Fali. Hope you have understood why I quoted the expression the other great man. The simple reason is that myself, an aam admi, just can't be anywhere near Fali. However, as now Fali has set the ball rolling, I am going to search the paper where I had noted down the email addresses of PM Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi to write them about Fali's viewpoint.
Fali's viewpoint carries a lot of weight in view of the personally honest PM Manmohan Singh's inability to provide us a clean government. Moreover, the politics of coalition government over the last 15 years is also an indication that people don't have faith in a single-party government to deliver. So, it's the time that all political parties done away with their baggage of tainted politicians and joined hands to form a national government without any fear of gathering numbers to prove majority in the Lok Sabha. This would help shift the focus from frivolous blame game to the real issue of good, inclusive, corruption-free governance and make India a world leader.
Again, before telling you about the 'other great man', I tell you what makes the 'other great man' that he thinks like Fali. In The Week interview, Fali says, "One has to think about a country that has given you so much. It's a fantastic country despite all its governance. I share a view that most don't, that this was the time when parties with different ideologies should have got together to form a national government to tackle the economic crises and governance issues, like they do in wartime."
The 'other great man' is I myself. For the last 2-3 months I have also been thinking like Fali. Hope you have understood why I quoted the expression the other great man. The simple reason is that myself, an aam admi, just can't be anywhere near Fali. However, as now Fali has set the ball rolling, I am going to search the paper where I had noted down the email addresses of PM Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi to write them about Fali's viewpoint.
Fali's viewpoint carries a lot of weight in view of the personally honest PM Manmohan Singh's inability to provide us a clean government. Moreover, the politics of coalition government over the last 15 years is also an indication that people don't have faith in a single-party government to deliver. So, it's the time that all political parties done away with their baggage of tainted politicians and joined hands to form a national government without any fear of gathering numbers to prove majority in the Lok Sabha. This would help shift the focus from frivolous blame game to the real issue of good, inclusive, corruption-free governance and make India a world leader.
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