No Rang De Basanti
I understand the risk of being branded a fatalist, but I am still going ahead with this post in my blog.
Nothing is going to happen with the current state of affairs in India. The issue of reservations is not a real problem. It is a symptom of a bigger malaise that is affecting Indian polity, something that we have inherited from the British and something that is as incurable as AIDS - the politics of divide and rule. Anywhere and everywhere, this government is busy dividing people, in the name of religion, caste, language and what not.
The new breed of politicians that join politics also fall prey to this disease. Look at the dashing new face of Indian politics - Mr Dayanidhi Maran, Telecom minister in the central cabinet. He is still a part of the system that bans movies like Da Vinci Code in his home state. Being a minister for telecom, and for all the good work he has done for the sector, I am sure he believes in open communications and reasonable censorship. He is young, he must have new ideas that he wants to try and implement but is he holding himself back?
Why have not politicians like Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sachin Pilot and Milind Deora who belong to the new generation come out against reservations? Is this because they have already had a reserved seat in politics for themselves? Is it because they are scared to venture out in open -or- just too damn lazy for their own good. I would never accept Rahul Gandhi as my leader but at least he tried to listen to the arguments of the anti-quota protesters before being silenced by the senile brigade of ministers. I would give him credit for at least that.
That we disagree with politicians who have long crossed retirement age is much more than a generation gap. I wonder how they are able to maintain their lust of power even at these levels of mental ability. They have long back learnt how to suppress their inner voice and how to manipulate the system for their own benefit. And it is a pity that the same would happen to the Pilots, Scindias and Gandhis in future.
Rang De Basanti is just stuff for movies and the poem in my last post is just a poem.
