Friday, December 17, 2004
India v/s England
If one wanted to know why India is still a under-developed country where progress seems to be an endangered species, two incidents this week showcased why. In UK, Home Secretary David Blunkett quit after a lot of pressure and noise, just because an e-mail emerged showing a visa application for his ex-lover's nanny had been fast-tracked. Remember, no rules broke, no threat to the country, no threat to the society. Although improper, I wud say this is a trivial issue.
Just a couple of dayz before this happened, in good old India, a state High Court - the highest judicial body of the state - had passed one after another stricture against a ruling party MP, and also against the state govt, and another court issued warrant notice against a minsiter for not honoring earlier summons. None of this seem to have affected the govt, that too in a time when they are going to face elections in a couple of months! I will not be surprised if inspite of this, and hundereds of other allegations, the Laloo-Rabri govt retains power. As I had said, may be the ppl of Bihar deserve this govt :-( May the Lord give the people the wisdom and the courage to over-throw this govt, and give them the luck so that an alternative govt will be a wee bit better! Not that the alternatives in the form of Paswan and Sharad Yadav sound very promising though!
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
If one wanted to know why India is still a under-developed country where progress seems to be an endangered species, two incidents this week showcased why. In UK, Home Secretary David Blunkett quit after a lot of pressure and noise, just because an e-mail emerged showing a visa application for his ex-lover's nanny had been fast-tracked. Remember, no rules broke, no threat to the country, no threat to the society. Although improper, I wud say this is a trivial issue.
Just a couple of dayz before this happened, in good old India, a state High Court - the highest judicial body of the state - had passed one after another stricture against a ruling party MP, and also against the state govt, and another court issued warrant notice against a minsiter for not honoring earlier summons. None of this seem to have affected the govt, that too in a time when they are going to face elections in a couple of months! I will not be surprised if inspite of this, and hundereds of other allegations, the Laloo-Rabri govt retains power. As I had said, may be the ppl of Bihar deserve this govt :-( May the Lord give the people the wisdom and the courage to over-throw this govt, and give them the luck so that an alternative govt will be a wee bit better! Not that the alternatives in the form of Paswan and Sharad Yadav sound very promising though!
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
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