Comments on Being Cynical: Our Democracy At The Crossroad

Even though I couldn't understand 40% of it, I...

2012-01-28T10:10:08.569+05:30

Even though I couldn't understand 40% of it, I still could manage to grasp the gist. Celebrating our Independence Day makes sense, but couldn't quite comprehend the semantics of celebrating R-Day.

By they way, the last paragraph was a sixer. I am still laughing reminding myself the lines.

@Anonymous. Agree to your reassertion of the line ...

2012-01-27T18:05:19.036+05:30

@Anonymous. Agree to your reassertion of the line ‘Charity Begins At Home’. Agree it is ‘We The People’ who should set some tough examples to begin with, before going ahead imputing one-and-all for the wretched condition that we are in. No two ways about that.
But this piece of mine is not necessarily aimed at politician bashing but the mess that we are fenced with. This piece is more to do with the way we celebrate our Republic Day without any considerable achievement on that till date; and for certain our political class contributed handsomely on the achievement of non-achieving. An average Indian is by default law abiding and genuine (Barring a handful who clog up that 14 followed by 12 zero tax loss). More off, it is the constitution which shoved up something called politicians through our throats (not the other way), without installing required checks and balances to control a freehand that most of our politicians seems to enjoy at present. I was arguing on the missing implementation of the golden lines of democracy “People shouldn’t be fearful of their government rather the government should be fearful of its people”. I was more referring to the unaccountability of our power circle and the complete non-action against someone if he is remotely associated with our political circle. My point was, as we are developing as a nation, it is time our constitution be revisited and adequate changes be implemented to mitigate any kind of shortcoming that we are bearing since 1950. I was just objecting to the liberty of ‘Having your Samosha and eating it too’.
Ohh, yes. It happens at times when I try to vomit a Webster (or Oxford if you like that) when I am a little happy and today was one of those days when I was over the moon, seeing an imminent whitewash of Men In Blue in the racist land  . Kindly be generous in bearing this as a one-off case.
Thanks anyway for visiting my blog and taking the pain to scribe your views. Look forward for more such interaction with you in future. You may argue ‘What is there in the name’, but I still would have loved to have your name than just an Anonymous.

I guess that the thoughts you have made sense, eve...

2012-01-27T15:24:08.536+05:30

I guess that the thoughts you have made sense, even if the language in which they are expressed reads like an English dictionary, and makes for somewhat difficult reading. However, more to the point, I think that instead of blaming our politicians for everything, have we stopped to think what, We the People, have done to get our nation where it has got. The politicians in office aren't extra-terrestrial creatures - they are Indians like the rest of us. And the traits they display - avarice, disregard for the law, an insatiable hunger for money - are the traits of our nation. Bloomberg ran an article which said the country loses about 14 lakh crores (yes, that is 14 followed by 12 zeroes) to tax evasion, through, for example, selling and buying houses "in black". Before we set right our politicians, we need to set right our national ethos. The patriotism we demand of our politicians needs to be practiced by us, the people. If we continue to rob the nation blind, it would be disingenuous to suggest that it is only the politicians who are to blame.

Good one ! Agree to each and every point...it was ...

2012-01-27T10:01:51.380+05:30

Good one ! Agree to each and every point...it was like you have pinned down what was there on my mind (most of it)...Loved it :)