Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Utter Shamelessness, Mr. PM

Manmohan Singh today said we have to learn to live with corruption and that there has to be a compromise! How can a standing PM say something like that. My blood's mercury level shot up by a couple of degrees and heart beat rate rose while I heard him talking like that on a national television channel. It's like a doctor who says  'you have a cancer but I am sorry, you have got to learn to live with it.'
This particular incident has made sure that Manmohan Singh, though intelligent (academically), is as incapable as our first PM, Chacha Nehru was. Even Nehru, unlike his daughter and grandchildren, was himself not corrupt (I suppose). But simply impotent(, politically).
This also reminds me of Mahatma Gandhi's post-independence wish - INC be dissolved, form a new party, with new name, and capable and willing members. I do not know how important was dissolving INC then, but right now.. ? Because when a doctor says that nothing can be done about a cancer, its generally third degree and only thing the person has to look forward is to Die. Does Manmohan Singh mean same to happen to INC?

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Politicians : Citizens

For USA,
the relation is analogous to Parents : Children

For India,
Boss : Exploited Worker

For China,
Master : Slave

In USA, a politician would do whatever he can to save the citizens from all the bad, just like a parent would do to their children. A parent would lie, cheat and steal from world so that his child can lead a normal life. Similarly, an American politician would do everything that he can do (involves igniting wars and going on war) to make sure that people back home are safe, and sound.
This is evident from all American citizens being very straightforward, sincere and nice to other people. Just like a child who has been kept away from the dirty world.

In India, a politician would be good to all the people from other countries but will suck everything out of its Citizens and at the same time behaves like a Godfather to the citizens. Just like a boss who not only pays no heed to the demands of his labor, but also makes the labor feel that he is the anna-daata, however he will be all nice and polite to his clients and suppliers.

In China, a government treats its citizens like slaves. They literally command them to do whatever it wants. They refrain from increasing labor wage rates because they want to be in a more respectable position to world. China might have high GDP, 2.5 trillion worth of US securities, etc. but people have no security. When you compare it with USA, its like a parent who feeds himself before his child. (Its one in a million possibility, but that's China)