Political Rambling
I see a pattern emerging in the behavior of Indians and particularly Indian politicians.
There is the growing attitude among the politicians, all the MLA’s MP’s ministers, governments, that they are above all, and above law. There is a tremendous vehemence that comes out, when they are questioned.
That brings the question, Are the politicians are god’s that don’t like to be questioned?
Politicians get involved every thing that they come across. Be it religion, cast, cricket, movies, education etc.
The way I look at it, if something is popular, and if you happen to be a politician, then do something, or say something to screw it up.
Actors and actresses have huge popularity, alright, make statement, condemn some one, and even try to control some aspects of their life. Examples, Rajinikanth Vs. Ramadoss, Amir Khan Vs BJP, Amitab Bachan Vs Congress the list goes on.
Cricket is religion. The gods of the masses, could not tolerate the idea that something is getting more attention than them, our beloved MP’s come up with all possible ridiculous statements, so that they uphold and condemn the team and the coach, go way out of their way to justify their interference. I can’t understand, why MP’s will discuss a sport in the parliament!! Ok if they do it in the canteen over chai, just like all the other workers. If I sit and discuss cricket @ my office, my manager will throw me out of job!!! With unemployment soaring, inflation rising, when our farmers are getting affected by genetically engineered seeds and food grains, when the neighboring states don’t share the country’s natural resources, when we have female infanticide, where there are umpteen social injustice handed down to people, our elected representatives have spent a day arguing over cricket in the parliament. I don’t think MP’s get paid to spend their time on irrelevant issues. They have a country to run!! As a humble citizen who happens to be sensitive towards his fellow countrymen, I have only one request, leave the sport as a sport, and don’t make it a game!
That brings me to another point. Are politicians beyond scrutiny? Are politicians not accountable? I cannot agree that the people will judge their performance and people will judge them at the elections. I guess, our people don’t have the capability to judge the candidate based on their performance, where as, we go by what cast, what community, what section, what intersection, what faction, what religion, what language, etc.
The education sector is very popular. How can it be? Lets remove CET, Lets kick out imposing English, Hindi, and any other language that is not a regional language.
I shudder to think, 20 years down the line, our current students in primary school graduate with relatively questionable English skill, and analytical skills, (since the only time when the students start learning analytical skills, since by hearting and vomiting the text books on to the exam papers does not help the CET) will be competing with the better English speaking Chinese, who already have good analytical skills, and better infrastructure which we cannot beat in the next 15 years (assuming we started working on our infrastructure last year).
Politician’s take on canceling CET is, “rural areas don’t have enough infrastructure to tutor them”. Building infrastructure, and enhancing and empowering them are hard work, and takes investment, political will. Sorry, we are in hart “Indians”. We go only by short cuts. So the problem is CET, not the lack of infra structure. We banish it.
That brings me to another questions, do we deserve democracy?
I can’t help, but relate it to Muhammad Bin Tuglak. Cho Ramasamy’s masterpiece political satire.
There is the growing attitude among the politicians, all the MLA’s MP’s ministers, governments, that they are above all, and above law. There is a tremendous vehemence that comes out, when they are questioned.
That brings the question, Are the politicians are god’s that don’t like to be questioned?
Politicians get involved every thing that they come across. Be it religion, cast, cricket, movies, education etc.
The way I look at it, if something is popular, and if you happen to be a politician, then do something, or say something to screw it up.
Actors and actresses have huge popularity, alright, make statement, condemn some one, and even try to control some aspects of their life. Examples, Rajinikanth Vs. Ramadoss, Amir Khan Vs BJP, Amitab Bachan Vs Congress the list goes on.
Cricket is religion. The gods of the masses, could not tolerate the idea that something is getting more attention than them, our beloved MP’s come up with all possible ridiculous statements, so that they uphold and condemn the team and the coach, go way out of their way to justify their interference. I can’t understand, why MP’s will discuss a sport in the parliament!! Ok if they do it in the canteen over chai, just like all the other workers. If I sit and discuss cricket @ my office, my manager will throw me out of job!!! With unemployment soaring, inflation rising, when our farmers are getting affected by genetically engineered seeds and food grains, when the neighboring states don’t share the country’s natural resources, when we have female infanticide, where there are umpteen social injustice handed down to people, our elected representatives have spent a day arguing over cricket in the parliament. I don’t think MP’s get paid to spend their time on irrelevant issues. They have a country to run!! As a humble citizen who happens to be sensitive towards his fellow countrymen, I have only one request, leave the sport as a sport, and don’t make it a game!
That brings me to another point. Are politicians beyond scrutiny? Are politicians not accountable? I cannot agree that the people will judge their performance and people will judge them at the elections. I guess, our people don’t have the capability to judge the candidate based on their performance, where as, we go by what cast, what community, what section, what intersection, what faction, what religion, what language, etc.
The education sector is very popular. How can it be? Lets remove CET, Lets kick out imposing English, Hindi, and any other language that is not a regional language.
I shudder to think, 20 years down the line, our current students in primary school graduate with relatively questionable English skill, and analytical skills, (since the only time when the students start learning analytical skills, since by hearting and vomiting the text books on to the exam papers does not help the CET) will be competing with the better English speaking Chinese, who already have good analytical skills, and better infrastructure which we cannot beat in the next 15 years (assuming we started working on our infrastructure last year).
Politician’s take on canceling CET is, “rural areas don’t have enough infrastructure to tutor them”. Building infrastructure, and enhancing and empowering them are hard work, and takes investment, political will. Sorry, we are in hart “Indians”. We go only by short cuts. So the problem is CET, not the lack of infra structure. We banish it.
That brings me to another questions, do we deserve democracy?
I can’t help, but relate it to Muhammad Bin Tuglak. Cho Ramasamy’s masterpiece political satire.
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