Our True National Leaders & Prime Ministers : Profiles & Talk to Them
Our True National Leaders & Prime Ministers : Profiles & Talk to Them
| By dayanandnene (219.65.89.168) on Monday, December 22, 2003 - 04:21 pm: |
BSP - THE NEW WORD FOR DEVELOPMENT ?
The recent round of assembly elections has thown up a new catch-phrase in Indian politics - BSP.
Well BSP does not stand for Bahujan Samaj Party only. In todays political parlance it means BIJLEE, SADAK, PANI.
All the TV mandarins and so called election experts, now routinely coin new catch-phrases to cover up the failure of their predictions. Earlier when they went wrong in the Tamil Nadu elections, they coined ' anti-incumbency' factor. This time when their predictions went wrong in Rajasthan and Chattisgarh and also in MP - where they failed to gauge the landslide in favour of the BJP- these mandarins have invented the new synonym for Vikas i.e. Development and the phrase is BSP.
Frankly, today its a shame that 57 years of Independence,we have experts who invent that Development to the Indian voter means Bijlee, Sadak and Pani. I expected that these were the very basics of any civilisation. That our political parties can still make these an election issue and that our voter still get swayed by this is indeed a travesty of our polity and governance. And it speaks volumes for what ails the entire BIMARU region of our country - Bihar, MP, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
Lets hope that the new dipensation which has come to power after this round of elections have the courage to be different. If leaders are prepared to be innovative, they can use their vast and mostly idle man power to do many other things after seriously examining why the most basic needs of the 21st century life are seemingly so hard to provide only in India. Then they will find that resources ( meaning money) is not a problem. The problem is that it gets spent on the wrong things.
- Dayanand Nene
| By dayanandnene (219.65.82.110) on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 10:32 pm: |
THE COWBOY VS. THE TYRANT
America's war against terror - its Afghanistan adventure- later Jr. Bush's vow to teach ' that tyrant Saddam a lesson ', the subsequent US attack on Iraq, the expected fall of Baghdad in this utterly unequal battle, the vanishing of Saddam - and his much publicised capture, after 8 months of excruciatingly painful trail - all this has all the ingredients of a Bollywood, ooops, a Hollywood, sorry - a cowboy flick.
In good old days, bad boy Ajit used to mock at our heroes, with Mona darling in tow, Garam Dharam used to vow shrilly - kamine, mere baap ka badla main tere khoon se loonga.
Now, we had bad boy Saddam vowing to wage the mother of all battles against the ' Satan' - and our cowboy President ' Dubyaman' vowing to wipe the symbol of terror from the face of mother earth, and later following up on Saddam's capture, cryptically in two words - GOOD RIDDANCE.
The initial pictures of Saddam's capture showed him as a man who was in a daze, a dishevelled pensioner who had just been jolted out of a deep slumber. It was hard to believe that here was a man who had triggered off the greatest manhunt known in history.
Unlike known tyrants before him, Saddam surrendered rather meekly. He did not commit suicide nor fire a single shot to defy the American forces. He seemed resigned to his fate- or the past 8 months of being on the run, in conditions as shown during his arrest, must have shattered his zeal to fight it out.
During his 25 year iron fisted rule over Iraq, apart from all the internal crimes he committed on his people, Saddam was clearly guilty of two acts og aggression - the invasion if Iran in 1980 and later Kuwait in 1990. Apart from everything else, Saddam can be held personally accountable for these two criminal acts of recklessness.
It is indeed ironical that his arrest is itself a product of an act of aggression committed by the USA and Britain, in violation of International Law and in the teeth of opposition the world over.
The Indian govt. has rightfully desisted all US overtures to send troops to Iraq.
Now that Saddam has been hunted down, the all important question is how to deal with him? As the sole arbiter of the fate of Iraqi people and being the self styled champion of democracy the world over, the onus is clearly on the US to ensure that Saddam is tried and convicted for all his crimes- within the framework of international law.
For far too long, the US has assumed the role of judge, jury and executioner in Iraq. Now Saddam's capture gives it a chance to straighten that record.
- Dayanand Nene.
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