I've been rather amused by the goings on around me for the past few days. What comes out thanks to the media is undiluted humour and people's propensity for double speak! Quite a few of the political leaders utter statements in haste, to show 'correctness', only to realise their folly as the situation plays out to its logical conclusion. And sadly, where they ought to state their positions and voice opinions, they've been deafening in their silence. It's really amazing to see how people resort to gimmicks just for those fifteen minutes of fame. I'd like to visit a few of the stories anyway:-
(a) The Modi invite.
Narendra Modi, the CM of Gujarat, has been invited by the 'Sivagiri Math' as the chief guest of its silver jubilee celebrations beginning tomorrow. There has been a slew of protests from both the UDF and the LDF camps and VS Achuthanandan, the opposition leader has said that he'd stay away from the celebrations. Coincidentally, the state's labour minister, had faced a lot of flak for having met Modi recently on the sidelines of an award distribution ceremony in which, ironically, the PM had felicitated him for providing a conducive and innovative work culture coupled with imaginative labour policies in his state!
However, when the two major community organisations viz. the NSS(Nair Service Society) and the SNDP(Sree Narayana Dharma Paripaalanam) didn't find anything amiss in the Sivagiri Math's invite, things have quietened down. I suppose all the guys who'd spoken against are now licking their wounds because their vote bank cannot be antagonised, you see!
(b) The Chinese intrusions.
The Chinese are at it again. Their latest incursion has been into Ladakh. They've erected tents 10 kms into the Indian territory saying that the LAC(Line of Actual Control) is disputable, in gross violation of a signed agreement between the two countries that neither will indulge in any sort of activity that upsets the current situation on the ground. The sequence of events was that on the night of 15 Apr, a platoon strength of the PLA(Peoples' Liberation Army) had come into the Indian territory in Burthe of the Daulat Beg Oldi sector, in Ladakh, which is at an altitude of 17,000 ft. And mind you, a Chinese platoon has a strength of 50 soldiers.
Now, consider this. Political parties are yet to make their stand known. The media has not been allowed into the area. Probably, there's hectic backroom pressure being exerted by our government on the Chinese. But on the face of it, judging from what one sees as a layman, we seem to be weary of taking on China when they do wrong.
(c) Protests against rape.
The protests by the common man against the rape of the five year old has been going on unabated for the last few days and the outpour of grief and torment are visible. But what's gonna come out of all this? Is it just a pantomime without concrete results as has been the case in the past? No political leader nor government official has come forth to give a coherent statement to soothe the anguished minds.
No one is bothered!
Tailpiece.
What sort of a people are we? We seem to be going from one agony to the other, totally insulating ourselves from them, with most of us concentrating on our private lives. But what we seem to forget is that such incongruities need lasting solutions and it's the responsibility of each and every Indian citizen to participate in the decision making process.
(a) The Modi invite.
Narendra Modi, the CM of Gujarat, has been invited by the 'Sivagiri Math' as the chief guest of its silver jubilee celebrations beginning tomorrow. There has been a slew of protests from both the UDF and the LDF camps and VS Achuthanandan, the opposition leader has said that he'd stay away from the celebrations. Coincidentally, the state's labour minister, had faced a lot of flak for having met Modi recently on the sidelines of an award distribution ceremony in which, ironically, the PM had felicitated him for providing a conducive and innovative work culture coupled with imaginative labour policies in his state!
However, when the two major community organisations viz. the NSS(Nair Service Society) and the SNDP(Sree Narayana Dharma Paripaalanam) didn't find anything amiss in the Sivagiri Math's invite, things have quietened down. I suppose all the guys who'd spoken against are now licking their wounds because their vote bank cannot be antagonised, you see!
(b) The Chinese intrusions.
The Chinese are at it again. Their latest incursion has been into Ladakh. They've erected tents 10 kms into the Indian territory saying that the LAC(Line of Actual Control) is disputable, in gross violation of a signed agreement between the two countries that neither will indulge in any sort of activity that upsets the current situation on the ground. The sequence of events was that on the night of 15 Apr, a platoon strength of the PLA(Peoples' Liberation Army) had come into the Indian territory in Burthe of the Daulat Beg Oldi sector, in Ladakh, which is at an altitude of 17,000 ft. And mind you, a Chinese platoon has a strength of 50 soldiers.
Now, consider this. Political parties are yet to make their stand known. The media has not been allowed into the area. Probably, there's hectic backroom pressure being exerted by our government on the Chinese. But on the face of it, judging from what one sees as a layman, we seem to be weary of taking on China when they do wrong.
(c) Protests against rape.
The protests by the common man against the rape of the five year old has been going on unabated for the last few days and the outpour of grief and torment are visible. But what's gonna come out of all this? Is it just a pantomime without concrete results as has been the case in the past? No political leader nor government official has come forth to give a coherent statement to soothe the anguished minds.
No one is bothered!
Tailpiece.
What sort of a people are we? We seem to be going from one agony to the other, totally insulating ourselves from them, with most of us concentrating on our private lives. But what we seem to forget is that such incongruities need lasting solutions and it's the responsibility of each and every Indian citizen to participate in the decision making process.
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