We all have our opinions! Some write them, some twitter about it, some appear on TV shows. And some blog it!
I am fed up with the narrow minded activity that politics has been reduced to in our country. The terms of the UPA-2 is coming to an end and thank god for that! There is only so much of crap that citizens can take.
But what are the alternatives? BJP is a party that is falling apart with the weight of its own contradictions. Modi could be a great big hope, but in the era of coalition governments, what can one man do? Of course, one can remain hopeful until he proves otherwise. More likely, unless there are some very rapid developments and BJP transforms itself by retiring the old guard, brings in fresh new faces and reinvents and rebrands itself as the "New BJP", we will be getting more of the same, albeit, in a different container!
3rd front? Well, less said the better.
Aam Admi Party? At least their heart appears to be in the right place, though their execution leaves much to be desired. The pace is frenetic and they are in too much of a hurry. If they have to succeed, then they have to give it time and adopt an approach that is both creative and universally applicable for general good.
"General good"! That was once the credo of democracy. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Right? Wrong! Democracy appears to be a lot more complicated and what given to one always appears to have been taken from another.
So what is the solution? Is there a system that will work better than democracy? Or should a democracy be run differently?
The systems of a democracy as vast and complex as ours needs to go back to the drawing board to be redesigned ground up. The result may or may not be very different to the system we have in place now. If the gaps are small, all we need are a few tweaks to set it right. And if the gaps are large, we have the challenge of a transformation.
I will use this blog to clarify my own mind.
You, the readers of this blog, are quite welcome to use this material, if useful.
I am fed up with the narrow minded activity that politics has been reduced to in our country. The terms of the UPA-2 is coming to an end and thank god for that! There is only so much of crap that citizens can take.
But what are the alternatives? BJP is a party that is falling apart with the weight of its own contradictions. Modi could be a great big hope, but in the era of coalition governments, what can one man do? Of course, one can remain hopeful until he proves otherwise. More likely, unless there are some very rapid developments and BJP transforms itself by retiring the old guard, brings in fresh new faces and reinvents and rebrands itself as the "New BJP", we will be getting more of the same, albeit, in a different container!
3rd front? Well, less said the better.
Aam Admi Party? At least their heart appears to be in the right place, though their execution leaves much to be desired. The pace is frenetic and they are in too much of a hurry. If they have to succeed, then they have to give it time and adopt an approach that is both creative and universally applicable for general good.
"General good"! That was once the credo of democracy. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Right? Wrong! Democracy appears to be a lot more complicated and what given to one always appears to have been taken from another.
So what is the solution? Is there a system that will work better than democracy? Or should a democracy be run differently?
The systems of a democracy as vast and complex as ours needs to go back to the drawing board to be redesigned ground up. The result may or may not be very different to the system we have in place now. If the gaps are small, all we need are a few tweaks to set it right. And if the gaps are large, we have the challenge of a transformation.
I will use this blog to clarify my own mind.
You, the readers of this blog, are quite welcome to use this material, if useful.
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