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LK Advani Ji! Familiarity breeds contempt!

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Advani is all over the Indian Web landscape! Google Ads all over! And this time with the typical American way of telling ‘ABC for President!’ Oops For Prime Minister. Though i see this as a change of times and i always feel BJP was miles ahead when it came to being Tech Savy from the times of Late Pramod Mahajan. The flaw however is that they probably always overdid all their futuristic initiatives! and this is definitely one of them! One of the most infamous ones was the ‘India Shining’ campaign which had a very good theme but was too overdone that it had a rebound! which i see as the most likely consequence of the current campaign as well!

I finally decided to give way and finally visited the website. I was seriously impressed if i took the activities at the literature value. Though the anti-Congress beacon shines bright and quite understandably! The party surely seems to be re-inventing itself. This is probably the new face of BJP or probably Indian politics as a whole is maturing.

All the thoughts process apart, i doubt if they will be able to move away from their current image unless they shed their saffron colors!

But that’s my dime worth of thought!

Are we helpless?

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
  • Are we proud of our leadership today?
  • Is our nation the best place to live in?
  • Is our nation the best destination to attract Scholars, Scientists and investors?
  • Does our nation provide the best education and the health care services to all the citizens?
  • If our answer is ‘No’ to all the above questions then what are we doing about it?
  • Can we disagree with the point of View E.J Hobsbawm holds about India as stated below?

“India’s great difficulty is that the state is considerably weak in its structure, administrative ability, and political system. As far as India is concerned, I think that the nuclear arms are directed against Pakistan. Their interest is regional and India is a regional power. It is unlikely that it will become anything more than that in the next fifty years”. E.J. Hobsbawm
What do we do to prove Hobsbawm wrong?