Interesting Times Ahead - Part 1
The Congress has atlast done what it should have done ages ago. Its alliance with the Left was always rocky, but more importantly very unproductive.
'Choosing to be an atheist is like choosing immobility as a means of transportation' says 'The life of Pi' on atheism(need not be my opinion on Atheism).I feel this quote would be more appropriate for India's current political and economic predicament.
India for the last 4 years was always putting 2 steps forward and then 3 steps back. Caught in a quagmire between the global pushes and pulls of globalisation on one hand and the Left's outdated approach to economics and society on the other we were practically helping no one's cause. Our foreign affairs situation has become more of a joke with all our neighbours some way or the other capitulating to the mighty red dragon.
For a more detailed critique(or rather slamming) of the Left read Sagharika Ghosh's post at
http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/sagarikaghose/223/51800/red-letter-day.html
As indicated in the post above, now that the Left is no longer with the Congress, they will become the next favourite hunting prey for CN IBN after the poor old BJP.
Coming back to the topic, now that the Left has been done with thanks to 'timely' help from the SP(don't ask me about the mysterious situation of the case on the Sahara Group) the next challenge ahead of the Congress will be to come safely out of the Confidence motion. The reason i am expecting eagerly for all this is i am somehow convinced that if Congress comes through after all this mess, there will be atleast a few good reforms in the pipeline for the next year.Most of these would have been kept in cold storage out of fear for the Left's opposition.
I of course agree that time is running out and even if the Confidence motion is overcome, there is just one year left, but then something is better than nothing and sometimes a few months is enough to atleast put up a decent foundation in place.
'Choosing to be an atheist is like choosing immobility as a means of transportation' says 'The life of Pi' on atheism(need not be my opinion on Atheism).I feel this quote would be more appropriate for India's current political and economic predicament.
India for the last 4 years was always putting 2 steps forward and then 3 steps back. Caught in a quagmire between the global pushes and pulls of globalisation on one hand and the Left's outdated approach to economics and society on the other we were practically helping no one's cause. Our foreign affairs situation has become more of a joke with all our neighbours some way or the other capitulating to the mighty red dragon.
For a more detailed critique(or rather slamming) of the Left read Sagharika Ghosh's post at
http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/sagarikaghose/223/51800/red-letter-day.html
As indicated in the post above, now that the Left is no longer with the Congress, they will become the next favourite hunting prey for CN IBN after the poor old BJP.
Coming back to the topic, now that the Left has been done with thanks to 'timely' help from the SP(don't ask me about the mysterious situation of the case on the Sahara Group) the next challenge ahead of the Congress will be to come safely out of the Confidence motion. The reason i am expecting eagerly for all this is i am somehow convinced that if Congress comes through after all this mess, there will be atleast a few good reforms in the pipeline for the next year.Most of these would have been kept in cold storage out of fear for the Left's opposition.
I of course agree that time is running out and even if the Confidence motion is overcome, there is just one year left, but then something is better than nothing and sometimes a few months is enough to atleast put up a decent foundation in place.
posted by Badri at 12:10 PM
2 Comments:
Choosing to be an atheist is like choosing immobility as a means of transportation - is one of the most absurd comments I have ever come across. Quoting it here is a very bad example. I still cannot understand why atheists are called immobile. Please do remember Nehru, Periyar, Anna, Patel, Bose, Tagore were all atheists.
mayil i think you have taken me out of context. i had mentioned there that i would like to apply this for political ideology. which here means 'India's approach to politics, International affairs and economy has been very primitive and is moving nowhere because of the pulls from each and every direction'
regarding my views on atheism i would like to reserve it for myself and will tackle it in a detailed manner in a later post as it will deviate from the current post.
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