Are we a nation of humourless people? Or our politicians are just humourless hypocrats?This question popped up in my mind while reading the controversy over external affairs minister of state Shashi Tharoor’s comment on twitter. He tweeted that he would travel in cattle class to sympathise with the holy cows concerning the austerity gestures of govt. But politicians made a big issue out of this harmless joke.
The reaction of politicians shows their hypocrisy and how they take themselves so seriously. Besides our politicians definitely lack wisdom and maturity so that they make issue out of nothing. Shashi Tharoor is probably an odd man there, but I feel we are desperately in need of a wise and mature politician like him. Atleast Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is wise enough to see the humour in it. It would be better if politicians concentrate on good governance rather than waste time on mean things. Please, let us grow up.
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I am a rebel, I can’t get along with meanness and injustice and feel like responding against all the menaces in the society. But it dawns on me many times that I can’t afford to be so, as I am so much bound to the materialism of the world. Sometimes I feel like a helpless child as if my favourite poet Shelley lamented once: ‘I fall upon the thorns of life, and I bleed’
It is not my intention to portray India in a bad light. I love the place where I was born and the place where I was being nurtured. And being an eternal optimist I do still believe and wish my country would change for the better. Again I subscribe to Shelley’s optimism ‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind’?
I am so grateful to my good swiss friend Mat Berthod, who inspired me to write and as a grafic designer put all his effort to frame this blog in an easthetic way.
It is not my intention to portray India in a bad light. I love the place where I was born and the place where I was being nurtured. And being an eternal optimist I do still believe and wish my country would change for the better. Again I subscribe to Shelley’s optimism ‘If winter comes, can spring be far behind’?
I am so grateful to my good swiss friend Mat Berthod, who inspired me to write and as a grafic designer put all his effort to frame this blog in an easthetic way.
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