Going by the news bytes of this week, one finds that the propensity to repeat mistakes is very much in vogue. I'd like to go by the theory that those people who resort to it, bank heavily on the saying that the public memory is short. Or is it another example of 'akrasia' - going ahead with a plan fully knowing that it's gonna be a disaster - at work? So, without much ado here, I go:-
(a) Mamata Banerjee's failed actions at preventing the BJP rally in Calcutta.
Whoever seems to be advising the tantrum throwing, Mamata, had got this completely wrong.
Didn't they anticipate the court's intervention if the BJP had approached it? By taking such
clumsy actions, didi's party has played into the hands of the BJP, viz. :-
(a) the TMC seems to be jittery about the BJP upstaging them
(b) it doesn't have anything concrete to show as major achievements in its three year rule!
(c) it should permit other political parties to display their wares and outsmart them with
their's, well articulated.
(d) it has forgotten that negative tactics never work.
While talking about the political flip flops, Omar Abdulla in J&K has been upto the same tricks.
Why can't the guy be decent, at least during the polls? And why is the BJP silent about the
scrapping of the Art 370 of our Constitution? Worried about not getting the votes? Aren't you,
then, hoodwinking the public?
(b) Why's he hanging on still?
After the stinging rebuke of the CBI chief by the Supreme Court of India, in connection
with the 2G coal scam, why is he continuing to stick to his chair? We're, however, lucky that
he'll pack his personal effects within a matter of a week when he retires from office. The
manner in which his personal reputation has been maligned, his life would be in tatters. I'm
sure that he must be groping for answers for his sucking up to the party in power.
Is he now gonna come out with a book on his 'achievements and frustrations as the head of
the CBI'? That sort of apology has now become boring because everyone, who has done it,
seems to be saying that they're the 'goody good boys' with honourable intentions but weren't
allowed the freedom to work by the 'corrupt' politicians.
If that be so, why didn't you put in your papers at the first instance of indiscriminate interference ? Or were the trappings of power, associated with your chair, so alluring that it's
worthwhile to cling on to it at any cost? If the latter was the truth, you need to face the
consequences, buddy!
(c) Egypt back to square one?
With the former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, being given a clean chit, the people have again
taken to the streets against the government. They're only reacting to the lies that are being
foisted on them. Wish the government had taken up a developmental agenda for speedy
execution. But do governments, ever, care for genuine development at all?
Tailpiece.
All in all, an interesting year. Will the last month come out with major surprises? For that, we must wait and see!
(a) Mamata Banerjee's failed actions at preventing the BJP rally in Calcutta.
Whoever seems to be advising the tantrum throwing, Mamata, had got this completely wrong.
Didn't they anticipate the court's intervention if the BJP had approached it? By taking such
clumsy actions, didi's party has played into the hands of the BJP, viz. :-
(a) the TMC seems to be jittery about the BJP upstaging them
(b) it doesn't have anything concrete to show as major achievements in its three year rule!
(c) it should permit other political parties to display their wares and outsmart them with
their's, well articulated.
(d) it has forgotten that negative tactics never work.
While talking about the political flip flops, Omar Abdulla in J&K has been upto the same tricks.
Why can't the guy be decent, at least during the polls? And why is the BJP silent about the
scrapping of the Art 370 of our Constitution? Worried about not getting the votes? Aren't you,
then, hoodwinking the public?
(b) Why's he hanging on still?
After the stinging rebuke of the CBI chief by the Supreme Court of India, in connection
with the 2G coal scam, why is he continuing to stick to his chair? We're, however, lucky that
he'll pack his personal effects within a matter of a week when he retires from office. The
manner in which his personal reputation has been maligned, his life would be in tatters. I'm
sure that he must be groping for answers for his sucking up to the party in power.
Is he now gonna come out with a book on his 'achievements and frustrations as the head of
the CBI'? That sort of apology has now become boring because everyone, who has done it,
seems to be saying that they're the 'goody good boys' with honourable intentions but weren't
allowed the freedom to work by the 'corrupt' politicians.
If that be so, why didn't you put in your papers at the first instance of indiscriminate interference ? Or were the trappings of power, associated with your chair, so alluring that it's
worthwhile to cling on to it at any cost? If the latter was the truth, you need to face the
consequences, buddy!
(c) Egypt back to square one?
With the former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, being given a clean chit, the people have again
taken to the streets against the government. They're only reacting to the lies that are being
foisted on them. Wish the government had taken up a developmental agenda for speedy
execution. But do governments, ever, care for genuine development at all?
Tailpiece.
All in all, an interesting year. Will the last month come out with major surprises? For that, we must wait and see!
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