Politics of Colour

This views expressed are my own. I don’t have any political leanings and though I have had voting rights for nearly 8 years, have never exercised it; the likelihood of exercising it in the near future is highly unlikely. In general I wanted to write this more out of my personal frustration than anything else.


Seeing Red!!!!!!


I personally hailed the move of Mr. Karat heading the Red Bastion (in 2005) for some well known reasons. I considered him to be a man of honor, educated and well-respected in the political fraternity. At least the party would have a face amidst the hoodlums crowding it. Maybe he might usher in the new era of good governance and instill some positive direction to the politburo’s archaic thought process. Alas I was overjoyed too soon. All the pedigree he brought in was soon wiped off and the myopic leftist leanings soon ruled the roost. For some reason I don’t really understand the big Anti-US stand of the party and the violent objection to any sort of reform. The party seems to live in a time-warped state since the days of Marx and later Lenin and created a Utopian concept - led more than a generation to mere bogus dreams and created the big fat communist ideology. The result – West Bengal! even if the process of cleansing the state of the Marxist fallout starts today, it will still be eons before the wheel can be re-invented again. Till then Mr. Karat and his band of brothers would have thwarted many a good reform proposal, threatened to bring down some more “stable” government and in general sell the socialism, communism and all ***ism to a few more unsuspecting generations.



The Green Monster! !

Who says Monarchy is going away? Democracy is a mere puppet in the hands of the “G” family. The biggest achievement of the current government – OBC quota. A move with more far-reaching consequences than any other. This actually leads to the dilution of the outputs of the premier Schools of the nation – Tech, Med, Business et al. Can anything be sadder than this? A positive score that the government could score – the nuclear deal- is still on cards but let’s wait and watch for that. Minority appeasement process is another strong bone of contention. Handling of terrorism by this government leaves a lot to be desired, the home minister makes a major faux pas about a terrorist. Inflation is on an all-time high, a populist Budget tht won brownie points from none; tied between the socialism of the Nehru era and the economic reforms of the early nineties, the Congress seems to be hell-bent on reversing the development process it had kick-started nearly 2 decades back. the result – an all time high-inflation. Sorry but after 4 years at the helm there is nothing to right home about.

The Saffron Brigade!!

Torn between the strong hardline stance of RSS leaning members and slightly right leaning moderate party workers, the party is in a weird state now There is a constant leadership struggle with the ageing leadership kind of failing to rope in the new generation. The senior leadership is exhibiting serious senility issues and though a class of people might get a kick of astrologers and the name-calling tactics employed by Mr Advani, the vast majority seem kinda unimpressed. Since the shock defeat in the last general election, the party is yet to recover from the shock and even though it has successfully won quite a few state elections, even broken in to the south corridor the central leadership is an a state of big limbo. Somewhere amidst the likes of Modi and Jaitely and the over-dose of Advani the state of affairs are bleak. I still hail the golden quadrilateral project but probably the India Shining campaign was a bit far fetched. Can we expect some magic in the next general election – Going by the current state of affairs the writing is on the wall “Nada…….”