o know that PM has called the opposition leader weak, and the opposition in turn called him weaker. They seem to have quoted incidents happened in past, the kind of incidents which are generally used for scoring brownie points. In the meantime police reforms have not been done, quoting these incidents helps to consolidate their vote bank. When they had the power to reform they didn’t do anything now they are posturing against each other. What a shame. The market rule is you get more attention if you are in confrontation, it is an easier narration this A Vs B nonsense, the market media actively do the spadework to accentuate these fissures. This spares the subtleties of national issue. The so called leaders are playing for the gallery; probably they know they cannot face the real issues. Or maybe it’s a ploy to make the issues superficial, as they are caricaturizing through party ads (when will they realize these things don’t work- they may work to sell few thousands products more, national elections are about billion people. They are playing a joke on common people).
The statement that Mr. L.K Advani has done only negative things may not be acceptable to millions of people in this country, so is the statement that Manmohan Singh is a weaker PM (incidentally I really don’t know what this weak and strong means). This attempt to create wedges is what market does best, confrontation as competition. Some insight is necessary here. The dichotomous reality is a western civilization world view. The hell and heaven. God and Satan. The split between bad and good is quite entrenched in these societies for centuries (as Mr. Bush said you with us or with them). Capitalism through its “competitive” nature tends to replicate this illusion. It is but obvious that market media will accentuate fissures wherever exists. In last few years they have become too crude. The fourth estate in
The Indian understanding is oneness, heaven and hell can be in same person. No one can be a Satan forever, there is always a space for goodness to exist in bad too. The attempt to portray BJP (a major national party) as Satan- agent of destruction, is a dangerous understanding. First it undermines intelligence of millions of people who vote them, second every political party has extreme elements. If BJP is destructive then Election Commission should debar it. They should also have stricter laws to debar disruptive elements (like for instance Varun or Thackery), I am for laws and facts. The allegations are always subjective and easily manipulated by vested. You don’t know whom to trust. If Mr. Advani was involved in destruction of Babri masjid why is he not in jail?. What prevents him to be arrested? Clearly there is something wrong with the law and order machinery which no government had made any serious attempts to reform (certainly Manmohan Singh is as weak leader, what has he done to reform the system?. Indeed the parliament is the weakest). Or else cases against Mr. Advani are creation of vested interest. Allegations of these natures are meant for communal polarization of society, whenever they are needed by leaders to work on their vote bank as much as media for TRP, somewhere the reality is lost. Political leaders at the centre are supposed to be policy makers, and if they haven’t placed any systems to prevent destructive elements or parties from contesting elections then it their fault. You cannot say they haven’t broken any law or we don’t have any laws but these people are bad. This blogger doesn’t understand that logic. Creating these ambiguous situations and prolonging the events that happened years back helps lots of people aiming at garnering power. Tragically the reality of people is lost in these competitions.
Here take some reality: Did you know that in capital city of 
by a Hindi news channel a month back-they did an excellent job, few weeks back BBC took it up as its main news. Indian media ofcourse is as usual concerned about angst of “people like us”). Almost all of these children are from slums because if a single one from richer section go missing it would be breaking news and a national scandal (remember the CEO son going missing in NOIDA, it was during the same time many children from poorer section in the same vicinity were being brutally killed by “people like us” in the neighborhood. Some mediocre celebrity playing intellectual might get themselves photograph with slum children in Mumbai, some may make pretentious movies and work it out in Oscars. But the fact is “slumdogs” don’t end up making cucumber sandwich. There is not much ‘feel good’ in lives of millions of people. Worst part here is that they are not from a single community (otherwise there was a possibility on communalizing and be seen as saviors), they are poor people mostly migrants to big cities. Poor migrants are the most vulnerable section of society and millions of them move to cities every day to make a living.
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Small children going missing must be really tough on parents and people around, also to be aware that these children will be abused must be very painful. I cannot even imagine how they deal with these. As also that nobody cares, add to that already tough life in slums (they also become easy prey to attention seeking socialite activists). Children are kidnapped and abused from pedophile to organ traders.
I am still confused about what or who is a stronger or weaker leader, really intriguing this one!!.
