Churchill - Who says he had Foresight, Just a keen Opportunist and Risk Taker

Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low caliber and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air and water would be taxed.”

India is merely a geographical expression. It is no more a single country than the equator.

-Winston Churchill

A man who I would, at least in the context above, consider down right stupid, and devoid of foresight - and what can be a more egregious reminder of the tyranny of his ineptitude - in handling India than the foregoing quote. But of course, he is believed in England to be the hero of the War and key in bringing Hitler down. I am also not too sure, if this so called victory over Hitler could have been achieve without the active participation of India on the side of England in the war.

A man who did his utmost in keeping India maimed and minioned for as long as possible is described as the principal proponent of free world by David Cameroon. But positions can be so divergent due to distinctive standpoints that sometimes it is impossible to make sense out of them.

News should not be Oprah Winfrey Show

I like Ravish Kumar's Prime Time. He makes lot more sense than any English news channel, particularly the Barkha Datta type news channels. His panelists are tempered and qualified to comment. He ensures, his panelists have some relevant experience unlike Saba Naqvi and Suhel Seth who sometimes are responding even before the question is tabled. His nasal accent also is a good reprieve from the high pitched anchoring drumming up hysteria on even mundane issues.

But his coverage  tonight on the Dalit Kabaddi issue of Gurgaon was too detailed for national television. There is no society of the world which is not afflicted with racism. Casteism is just a form of racism. And any such episode should be treated like a crime in a manner prescribed by law and justice should be meted out with greater promptness than usual, so that any retaliation restrained and political polarisation preempted. 

But a protracted coverage with gory details is just too fissiparous and is at best avoidable particularly at a time when social equations are fragile. What needs to be laboriously covered is the punishment meted out to the culprits. The justice dispensed..... or the details of the delay.....

Besides news should not become Oprah Winfrey show.

Pathetic Speech by Pranabda

I have one big issue with Indian people. We don't take public jobs seriously. We lack sincerity of purpose. We also treat others casually. A country that can beat any other of the world on accumulated intellectual capital, has a President, a career politician, who is struggling to read from the prompter and nervously fiddling with pencil throughout his eve of Independence Day speech. Why can he not spend a month in memorising a speech and deliver it immaculately to the people of his country? Why does he have to fumble and struggle to read it? Why can he not just keep it simple and speak his mind, rather than parrot a written speech? Why does he not treat the Billion strong peoples seriously and with respect? Because it is not merit that saddles you in such positions - there are multiple extraneous factors - so much of balancing that Pranabda has dextrously done all his life, to be rewarded with this position. Of course, at the route of the malaise is, that we don't treat our right to franchise seriously. If we vote for reasons other than the pure merit of the candidate, Pranabdas, Pratibha Patils and Gianijis shall be the natural outcome.