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By: Pragmatic Euphony » Karachi to Krishna

Pragmatic Euphony » Karachi to Krishna — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:03:22 +0000

[...] my fellow bloggers at INI never fail of reminding us — A government which cannot protect us from [...]

By: In Defense of Democracy | Retributions

In Defense of Democracy | Retributions — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:04:14 +0000

[...] his franchise is meaningless. It also ignores the fact that ultimately delivering on terror is linked to good governance; a government which cannot protect its citizens from seasonal rains cannot rescue from randomly [...]

By: Vote, you fools! | The Acorn

Vote, you fools! | The Acorn — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:19:57 +0000

[...] the importance of voting: A common bank of votes & notes, on DCubed; Vote, you fools! here on this blog; Rohit Pradhan’s article in Pragati; V Anantha Nageswaran in Mint 13 Jan [...]

By: reason

reason — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:33:57 +0000

the people of delhi voted apparently in good numbers, some 60%, and congress is back in power. There are good chances the citizens of mumbai, to whom this sermon has been directed to, may do the same thing gladly.

Does that mean we just need to keep lighting candles to fight terrorism?

elections are taken as a winner-take-all thing in India, even at 1% margins. We forget there is such a thing as the constitution.

By: Nilu

Nilu — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:50:14 +0000

Yes, vote and everything will be alright. In fact we should have voted our way out of debacles in the World Cup too.

By: Narayan

Narayan — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:14:00 +0000

The only solution is voter-turnout above 80% everywhere in all the elections, for a decade or two, which will automatically clean all of today’s mess.

To put it bluntly, when all of anti-nationals gang-up armed with their all-powerful tool of “tactical bulk-voting” as finalized by their local Churches or Mosques, there are not many options left to save any semblance of vegetation left.

By: more on bombay. « rohit’s space…

more on bombay. « rohit’s space… — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:11:56 +0000

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By: rohit’s space…

rohit’s space… — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:11:36 +0000

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By: Bombay burning « rohit’s space…

Bombay burning « rohit’s space… — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:02:29 +0000

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By: YB

YB — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:50:49 +0000

@acorn

“India has a phrase – chalta hai – this will go on”

Why do Indians say Chalta hai to events like these? Its because we do not know how to have the correct response to these attacks. And that is because we do not have “DISCIPLINE and MILITARY LIKE PROFESSIONALISM” in our genes. The qualities that would enable us to give the right repose to these events. We don’t have it in our genes so we will need to ACQUIRE IT.

Just the way discipline and military like professionalism comes naturally to Americans (and most of the western nations), but they had to struggle to ACQUIRE the sense of ‘EQUALITY TO ALL’ through civil rights moment and it took them a lot of internal struggle to finally get a black president elected. Similarly ‘EQUALITY TO ALL’ comes naturally to Indians, but now we will have to struggle to acquire the quality of ‘DISCIPLINE AND MILITARY LIKE PROFESSIONALISM’ to make India safe and prosperous.

By: AG

AG — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:33:16 +0000

Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

We’ve been voting for 60 years and with few exceptions, all our pols have taken us further down the drain.

By: Raag

Raag — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:56:20 +0000

I am not sure voting will anyway help the indian citizenry. The problem is with lack of real alternatives. In the last assembly elections for Karnataka, a lot of well-meaning people voted for the BJP to oust JDS and Congress. Now, the BJP government doesn’t seem to anyway different from the ones that would have been installed had JDS or congress won. Tell me, if a election happens in Maharashtra today, who should the common man vote for? and why?

By: Vishal Singh

Vishal Singh — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:57:12 +0000

I do not know how much voting will help to change things.
There are simply no choices.
I think there is a need for highly credible people to come in political space. They also need to come not through our regular parties. There are many credible smart people who would want to influence Indian political system but will not do so because of the complete collapse in the working style of political parties. The pendulum of inefficiencies of political parties shifts from each another. A congress will go and a BJP will come and the nation keeps on deteriorating at the same or faster pace.
As I said before regular Indian political parties have become morally bankrupt and expecting anything from them is like expecting a drug addict to come and treat people on how to keep away from drugs. There needs to be a new political party.

By: Retributions » Lessons from Mumbai-1

Retributions » Lessons from Mumbai-1 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:42:34 +0000

[...] Mumbai terror attacks should serve as an eye-opener for them. As Nitin Pai eloquently puts it, a ”government which cannot protect us from rainwater cannot protect us from [...]

By: Vivek

Vivek — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:39:53 +0000

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. – George Bernard Shaw

A friend of mind send me this a few days back; now the full force of this statement and its implications are weighing on my mind.

52 hours, and counting… ?