Saturday, July 16, 2005
Left exposed again
Today's Indian Express has one of the most well-written columns by Sekhar Gupta, exposing the Left's hue and cry in the last couple of weeks. Couple of months back, I was reading Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf. In it, Hitler says about the Jews: "I didn't know what to be more amazed at: the agility of their tongues or their virtuosity at lying." I'm no racist or anti-semitic, but I can very much echo this statement with respect to the Communists of India. These thugs are breaking the unspoken consensus that the country had when it came to economic reforms and foreign policies. While I understand the political compulsions of political parties, creating noise and playing to galleries is one thing, actually stifling progress is another. As TN Ninan pointed out in another article in rediff today, the Left have actually stifled all that they had theatened to stifle a year back.
It is struggle against nature and not conformity to nature that makes man what he is.
-Swami Vivekananda
Today's Indian Express has one of the most well-written columns by Sekhar Gupta, exposing the Left's hue and cry in the last couple of weeks. Couple of months back, I was reading Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf. In it, Hitler says about the Jews: "I didn't know what to be more amazed at: the agility of their tongues or their virtuosity at lying." I'm no racist or anti-semitic, but I can very much echo this statement with respect to the Communists of India. These thugs are breaking the unspoken consensus that the country had when it came to economic reforms and foreign policies. While I understand the political compulsions of political parties, creating noise and playing to galleries is one thing, actually stifling progress is another. As TN Ninan pointed out in another article in rediff today, the Left have actually stifled all that they had theatened to stifle a year back.
It is struggle against nature and not conformity to nature that makes man what he is.
-Swami Vivekananda
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