' Dr.Tharoor was made the scapegoat to sink in all the murky deals of the IPL. Lalit Modi escapes unhurt.
Victory to the lobbyists....! '
Above- a BUZZ from my cousin Bala today morning made me remember a mail I had sent to my college group a year ago; when we had a debate abt. Dr. Tharoor's candidateship....
Malayalees are silent .............
Keralities are silent............
Personally we "Kochi" folks are silent....................
Jai Hooooooooooooooooooo..................!!!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: DINESH MENON
Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Subject: Debates
To: Cochin College Yahoo Group
Sabu/ Friends
From: DINESH MENON
Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Subject: Debates
To: Cochin College Yahoo Group
Sabu/ Friends
I am sorry, I have lost faith in this politics….!!!
I don’t know much about Shasi Tharoor, have read that he did a good job in UN as an Under Secretary General, then he was a candidate for the world’s officially the top most designation-The UN Secretary General, the race which he lost, and now he’s a candidate for the coming parliamentary elections. Honestly, I have not read any of his books; but heard a lot many praise about them. But, when watching him on TV election campaign & interviews and thru a personnel view (very much my personnel) I think I stand along with Prasanth; I think he is brilliant, a good person by heart and not at all good for politics.
But he’s a bad ‘politician’.
I will just wrap up my opinion with what I have read and understood: A winning candidate's, or an individual candidate’s 'personality' or 'existence' doesn’t make a big difference in between ' the majority thugs' he or she is going to be a part of, after this election. After all, he’s a political party candidate...!
In India, all parties control & command, and it decides in whatever happens, where all leaders are puppets even with good leadership qualities, they find solace under the party decisions……..what is there to excite or make us expect much in this case ???
So, in such a set-up of political parties in India (any parties), what would be the degree of freedom Tharoor will enjoy, even if he wins?
Blame me of anything, I am ready to accept… , but I think I have literally lost my love and faith in politics. I just can feel the smell of hypocrisy, double standards, and double speak.... in all the camps. All of them, not one among them can be avoided……….they have no religion, no ethics, no principles.
Their religion is just ‘power’…’power’ and ‘Power’….!
I have read a story years ago, before the satellite TV revolution, there used to be a video news magazine called News track. There is one scene from it, starting with a shot of the bottom of Devi Lal’s sports shoes as he reclined on a garden chair, his foot rested on some kind of support. An interview began, and the interviewer asked him why he had made his son, Om Prakash Chautala, the chief minister of Haryana.
Devi Lal replied: ”Tho kya Bhajan Lal ke chhore ko banaaoo?” ( English translation —“Then shall I make Bhajan Lal’s son the chief minister?”-)
It can be said as a rare moment of honesty from an Indian politician...!
Devi Lal could have said that his son was a fine leader, and had served the people of Haryana. He could have said that it was a democratic decision by the party. But his statement made no pretence of denying what we all already know: Politicians are motivated by nothing other than a lust to power, and once they acquire it, they want to enjoy it, ever…..for-ever and to pass it on, like a material possession, to their progeny.
Friends, now imagine Sonia Gandhi being asked why Rahul Gandhi has been elevated in the Congress Party, saying: “Tho kya LK Advani ke chhori ko banaaoo?” Dynastic politics is not the only example of this, and it is certainly not restricted to the Congress Party.
Take into consideration the nuclear deal, to take an example. The BJP has opposed it, with Rajnath Singh saying that “it is not good for the future of the country,” and Murli Manohar Joshi claiming that it will make India “a junior partner of the US.” But can anyone have any doubt that, if the NDA had come into power in the last elections, and a BJP prime minister had brought an identical deal to the table, the party would have supported it vociferously? There would have been much nationalistic rhetoric about how the deal would take India into the league of superpowers, and how we would have a decisive advantage over Pakistan, and so on...........and the Congress would have opposed it tooth and nail.
So whom do we vote for??
Again, consider the issue of Nandigram, we have no doubt that if an identical crisis had erupted in Gujarat, the positions of the parties involved would have been reversed. The BJP would have spoken about how the state needs to be industrialized, and the Left parties would have agitated for the rights of the poor peasants who were forcibly being deprived of their land. When the BJP wanted to discuss Nandigram, the Left protested, saying that it was a state subject.
Truth is that the only politicians in our country who actually act on the basis of principles are a few deranged souls on the extreme right and the extreme left. Apart form them, not a single mainstream politician in this country cares about principles. They are motivated by one thing only, POWER. When they claim to principles, they do so as a tactical game of the moment. As the moment changes, their principles change.
Our opposition parties (irrespective of any party), in fact, understand only one act: to be in opposition. No matter what they otherwise claim to believe in, they will oppose everything the government does.
It’s simple logic, if sanghparivar, Lalu, Paswan, Mayawathi, muslim league and caste leaders in congress party can extract vote and gain power by dividing the society why can't LDF in Kerala………????? Who is not playing the communal card? The ones who lay the ground for such practice like Congress or the ones who have started and followed it later??
And whom do we criticize?
India, with the natural and human resources of this country, politicians have and is still ruin this country. While we need to think of utilizing our country's potential to lead globally, but we are busy with other small things and loosing our vision of becoming a great country.
We are still divided as Malayalee, Madrasi, Marathi, Bihari, Bengali, or Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs…… we have to still grow up to the level of calling ourselves collectively as INDIANS- the credit goes to our politicians who divide us each day into "Regional Identities" and do not allow us to become a single "National Identity"……….but of-course the show must go on, alle??…..!!
Now, many of you may have my way of thinking, and we are all stupid, I admit. Because other day I heard a genuine question, which is true enough; let me share that as conclusion: ‘we think it is obvious, and we all accept, that our politicians are deeply dishonest when it comes to politics. Why then, do we expect anything different from them when they win and are a part of government?
My views might be ‘wrong’, my stand ‘foolish’, but let me repeat friends I am sorry, I have lost faith in politics….!!!
Indians, (including me).....My conscience stand up and salutes you all….!!!
Jai HOoooooooooooooooooooooo……..
Dinesh Menon
April 06, 2009
I don’t know much about Shasi Tharoor, have read that he did a good job in UN as an Under Secretary General, then he was a candidate for the world’s officially the top most designation-The UN Secretary General, the race which he lost, and now he’s a candidate for the coming parliamentary elections. Honestly, I have not read any of his books; but heard a lot many praise about them. But, when watching him on TV election campaign & interviews and thru a personnel view (very much my personnel) I think I stand along with Prasanth; I think he is brilliant, a good person by heart and not at all good for politics.
But he’s a bad ‘politician’.
I will just wrap up my opinion with what I have read and understood: A winning candidate's, or an individual candidate’s 'personality' or 'existence' doesn’t make a big difference in between ' the majority thugs' he or she is going to be a part of, after this election. After all, he’s a political party candidate...!
In India, all parties control & command, and it decides in whatever happens, where all leaders are puppets even with good leadership qualities, they find solace under the party decisions……..what is there to excite or make us expect much in this case ???
So, in such a set-up of political parties in India (any parties), what would be the degree of freedom Tharoor will enjoy, even if he wins?
Blame me of anything, I am ready to accept… , but I think I have literally lost my love and faith in politics. I just can feel the smell of hypocrisy, double standards, and double speak.... in all the camps. All of them, not one among them can be avoided……….they have no religion, no ethics, no principles.
Their religion is just ‘power’…’power’ and ‘Power’….!
I have read a story years ago, before the satellite TV revolution, there used to be a video news magazine called News track. There is one scene from it, starting with a shot of the bottom of Devi Lal’s sports shoes as he reclined on a garden chair, his foot rested on some kind of support. An interview began, and the interviewer asked him why he had made his son, Om Prakash Chautala, the chief minister of Haryana.
Devi Lal replied: ”Tho kya Bhajan Lal ke chhore ko banaaoo?” ( English translation —“Then shall I make Bhajan Lal’s son the chief minister?”-)
It can be said as a rare moment of honesty from an Indian politician...!
Devi Lal could have said that his son was a fine leader, and had served the people of Haryana. He could have said that it was a democratic decision by the party. But his statement made no pretence of denying what we all already know: Politicians are motivated by nothing other than a lust to power, and once they acquire it, they want to enjoy it, ever…..for-ever and to pass it on, like a material possession, to their progeny.
Friends, now imagine Sonia Gandhi being asked why Rahul Gandhi has been elevated in the Congress Party, saying: “Tho kya LK Advani ke chhori ko banaaoo?” Dynastic politics is not the only example of this, and it is certainly not restricted to the Congress Party.
Take into consideration the nuclear deal, to take an example. The BJP has opposed it, with Rajnath Singh saying that “it is not good for the future of the country,” and Murli Manohar Joshi claiming that it will make India “a junior partner of the US.” But can anyone have any doubt that, if the NDA had come into power in the last elections, and a BJP prime minister had brought an identical deal to the table, the party would have supported it vociferously? There would have been much nationalistic rhetoric about how the deal would take India into the league of superpowers, and how we would have a decisive advantage over Pakistan, and so on...........and the Congress would have opposed it tooth and nail.
So whom do we vote for??
Again, consider the issue of Nandigram, we have no doubt that if an identical crisis had erupted in Gujarat, the positions of the parties involved would have been reversed. The BJP would have spoken about how the state needs to be industrialized, and the Left parties would have agitated for the rights of the poor peasants who were forcibly being deprived of their land. When the BJP wanted to discuss Nandigram, the Left protested, saying that it was a state subject.
Truth is that the only politicians in our country who actually act on the basis of principles are a few deranged souls on the extreme right and the extreme left. Apart form them, not a single mainstream politician in this country cares about principles. They are motivated by one thing only, POWER. When they claim to principles, they do so as a tactical game of the moment. As the moment changes, their principles change.
Our opposition parties (irrespective of any party), in fact, understand only one act: to be in opposition. No matter what they otherwise claim to believe in, they will oppose everything the government does.
It’s simple logic, if sanghparivar, Lalu, Paswan, Mayawathi, muslim league and caste leaders in congress party can extract vote and gain power by dividing the society why can't LDF in Kerala………????? Who is not playing the communal card? The ones who lay the ground for such practice like Congress or the ones who have started and followed it later??
And whom do we criticize?
India, with the natural and human resources of this country, politicians have and is still ruin this country. While we need to think of utilizing our country's potential to lead globally, but we are busy with other small things and loosing our vision of becoming a great country.
We are still divided as Malayalee, Madrasi, Marathi, Bihari, Bengali, or Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs…… we have to still grow up to the level of calling ourselves collectively as INDIANS- the credit goes to our politicians who divide us each day into "Regional Identities" and do not allow us to become a single "National Identity"……….but of-course the show must go on, alle??…..!!
Now, many of you may have my way of thinking, and we are all stupid, I admit. Because other day I heard a genuine question, which is true enough; let me share that as conclusion: ‘we think it is obvious, and we all accept, that our politicians are deeply dishonest when it comes to politics. Why then, do we expect anything different from them when they win and are a part of government?
My views might be ‘wrong’, my stand ‘foolish’, but let me repeat friends I am sorry, I have lost faith in politics….!!!
Indians, (including me).....My conscience stand up and salutes you all….!!!
Jai HOoooooooooooooooooooooo……..
Dinesh Menon
April 06, 2009
