Crossroads

Should we as a nation be scared of the future which appears gloomy right now or is there light at the end of the tunnel? That is a moot question, which majority of middle class India seems to be occupied with. We have had our fill of the “bak bak brigade” of Arnab, Rajdeep and Barkha and their ilk, their endless pointless and meaningless discussions do not interest us any longer. We are staring insolvency in the face a nation but our leaders(?) continue to squander our hard earned money and freedom on issues which even a no brainer can fathom as recipes for disaster. But politics is all about power at any and every cost, so if the nation goes bankrupt so be it, in fact suits the politicians even better to return to the “mai baap” days handing out doles.

The fourth estate and the so called pillar of democracy never cease to amaze me by their deliberate distortion of facts, pandering to their masters and in cahoots with their brethren. Gujarat 2002 is a pogrom but Delhi 84 is a riot, how does one define a pogrom, may I ask, where one community or the govt resorts to annihilation of another community, but wasn’t that the case in 84 when there was not a single case of retaliation by any Sikh, where as in Gujarat we all know there were killings of both communities although majority was Muslims. But then even if is known, it is a case of my riot is better than yours. But how long shall we harp on the same issue, and if we have to do that why not go back to 69 Ahmadabad or even further back at the time of partition. So let the ghosts be buried, I know the secular brigade will again be up in arms, but it is for the media to inform the public about facts and not what lies these politicians spread around. In fact, it is the single biggest failure of our media, where there are no informed debates. We have the same lot of spokespersons from political parties and also from the military brass as also former bureaucrats who are on their regular pay roll for typical sound bites. No wonder even the TRPs are nose diving and advertising drying up. So please innovate, we have almost 8-10 months to go for elections I am sure UPA won’t risk calling for an early election as they would like to milk even the last drop while they can, who knows, what circa 2014 will bring, especially with this Modi fellow, the outsider, a pretender, who might just romp home....

Frankly I wouldn’t mind even a Mayawati as the PM, but there should be a change we can’t have another five years of disaster in the form of our worthy incumbent and his puppeteers.

I know we have sinned and thus the suffering of this last decade but now the time has come for deliverance, our penance must bring fruits. I only hope so.......