We live in a state that is inundated with leaders.From Block Vice Presidents to State General Secretaries.From Gram Panchayat member(and their proxies read husbands of members selected from Women reserved seat) to Chief Ministers(working on proxy till sometime back;In Bihar)
A vibrant democracy,so vibrant that the resonance is enough to harm you eardrums.Vibrating for last 64 odd years,resulting in the voter becoming sensible enough to not to vote any one party.However.having been left with Hobson's choice, electing to power a conglomerate of parties with leaders of different hues, colors, tones,statures,personalities with nothing in common but a desire to be in Power and to stay in Power at any cost.The Desire resulting in such diverse Leaders being bed partners that even Freud would not be able to brand the underlying complex.
Vibrant democracies various vibrancy(s) have resulted in a cacophony that would put Cacophonous(of Asterix and Obelix) and his defamed music in demand.
Vibrant democracy plodding slowly but dexterously towards an undefined aim and in the process more often by accident than ever by design achieving;something;anything.And we the People rejoice and sing,Phir bhi Dil Hai Hindustani.The lower rung leaders pounce on this 'anything' achievement and say,'Humara Neta ne Leader Mahan'......................communication gap and the Aam Admi hears 'Mera Bharat Mahan' and leader goes back to making cacophonous noises and Aam Admi to his endless toil to be......yeah, tojust Be.
Now this mass of humanity called Our Nation and the Aam Admi therein over the past 64 yrs saw a pattern emerging; a pattern that showed him that the Political Factory is delivering Leaders at an ever increasing frequency.Leaders who,as Samuel Johnson said, have come to politics since it is the last resort for the scoundrel and I amend it to read as the First resort of the scoundrel in our vibrant democracy.
So..................sick of these ASSEMBLY LINE products of various hues but same chassis(read character and Aim) We The People started looking for SOMEONE to eulogise,someone whom we could admire,our leader of our very own Jasmine revolution.OUR HERO
So here was a NATION of 1 Billion and pregnant(pun intended) with many a myriad leaders but bereft of a Hero.Our Knight in White armour was found fast and made into a Hero overnight.He loved it,We loved it.And the coterie surrounded him fast.Coterie of self styled (men and women) epitomes of virtue,honesty,incorruptibility.We saw our jasmine revolutions dawn and cried Blood(democratically, nonetheless as dramatically as the Arab one)
Did No One tell this Coterie about the age old saying,'Pehla pathhar woh mare jisne Paap na kiya ho,jo paapi na ho'.
Well, our hero did turn out to be an honest , virtuous but simple AAM AADMI.Yes,Anna Hazare is a GOOD man but he is just the AAM AADMI on whom greatness has been thrust.He is relishing it,playing along because he knows no better.Reminds me of Raju of 'The Guide' (Dev Anand starrer) and the protagonists similar rise to Cult Hero status only to die for a cause he didn't believe in and ;in the case of Anna; HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND.There are a lot of clean good men and women in this country AND that is not enough to brand them as 'The People's Heroes'.
We need sensible,pragmatic,thinking leaders, heroes, visionaries all rolled into one.So what if they gulp a drink or two as the sun sets.Don't cane them as Anna states( what he says is good for Ralegaon Sidhi but we are talking about the biggest,largest democracy in the world).Use their statesmanship.Please don't make them Heroes;Find them first,give them the JOB.Give them TIME,be PRAGMATIC ask for achievable GOALS.Look at the RESULTS discerningly but not with a jaundiced eye.Wait................. and then say PASS or FAIL.
This Nation doesn't need any Revolution,it needs its own form of Democracy,tailor made to suit this bustling mass of largely good people.It needs Constitutional amendments to make the constitution more relevant to the ground realities.
There is some more to be said but I'm tired so later.......
A vibrant democracy,so vibrant that the resonance is enough to harm you eardrums.Vibrating for last 64 odd years,resulting in the voter becoming sensible enough to not to vote any one party.However.having been left with Hobson's choice, electing to power a conglomerate of parties with leaders of different hues, colors, tones,statures,personalities with nothing in common but a desire to be in Power and to stay in Power at any cost.The Desire resulting in such diverse Leaders being bed partners that even Freud would not be able to brand the underlying complex.
Vibrant democracies various vibrancy(s) have resulted in a cacophony that would put Cacophonous(of Asterix and Obelix) and his defamed music in demand.
Vibrant democracy plodding slowly but dexterously towards an undefined aim and in the process more often by accident than ever by design achieving;something;anything.And we the People rejoice and sing,Phir bhi Dil Hai Hindustani.The lower rung leaders pounce on this 'anything' achievement and say,'Humara Neta ne Leader Mahan'......................communication gap and the Aam Admi hears 'Mera Bharat Mahan' and leader goes back to making cacophonous noises and Aam Admi to his endless toil to be......yeah, tojust Be.
Now this mass of humanity called Our Nation and the Aam Admi therein over the past 64 yrs saw a pattern emerging; a pattern that showed him that the Political Factory is delivering Leaders at an ever increasing frequency.Leaders who,as Samuel Johnson said, have come to politics since it is the last resort for the scoundrel and I amend it to read as the First resort of the scoundrel in our vibrant democracy.
So..................sick of these ASSEMBLY LINE products of various hues but same chassis(read character and Aim) We The People started looking for SOMEONE to eulogise,someone whom we could admire,our leader of our very own Jasmine revolution.OUR HERO
So here was a NATION of 1 Billion and pregnant(pun intended) with many a myriad leaders but bereft of a Hero.Our Knight in White armour was found fast and made into a Hero overnight.He loved it,We loved it.And the coterie surrounded him fast.Coterie of self styled (men and women) epitomes of virtue,honesty,incorruptibility.We saw our jasmine revolutions dawn and cried Blood(democratically, nonetheless as dramatically as the Arab one)
Did No One tell this Coterie about the age old saying,'Pehla pathhar woh mare jisne Paap na kiya ho,jo paapi na ho'.
Well, our hero did turn out to be an honest , virtuous but simple AAM AADMI.Yes,Anna Hazare is a GOOD man but he is just the AAM AADMI on whom greatness has been thrust.He is relishing it,playing along because he knows no better.Reminds me of Raju of 'The Guide' (Dev Anand starrer) and the protagonists similar rise to Cult Hero status only to die for a cause he didn't believe in and ;in the case of Anna; HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND.There are a lot of clean good men and women in this country AND that is not enough to brand them as 'The People's Heroes'.
We need sensible,pragmatic,thinking leaders, heroes, visionaries all rolled into one.So what if they gulp a drink or two as the sun sets.Don't cane them as Anna states( what he says is good for Ralegaon Sidhi but we are talking about the biggest,largest democracy in the world).Use their statesmanship.Please don't make them Heroes;Find them first,give them the JOB.Give them TIME,be PRAGMATIC ask for achievable GOALS.Look at the RESULTS discerningly but not with a jaundiced eye.Wait................. and then say PASS or FAIL.
This Nation doesn't need any Revolution,it needs its own form of Democracy,tailor made to suit this bustling mass of largely good people.It needs Constitutional amendments to make the constitution more relevant to the ground realities.
There is some more to be said but I'm tired so later.......
