T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Lessons from the first year | Business Standard Column
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Lessons from the first year | Business Standard Column
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This refers to T C A
Srinivasa-Raghavan’s article “Lessons from the first year”(Line and length, July
4). The emergence of AAP and Modi as change agents on the Indian political
scene was the inevitability forced by the methodology in governance followed by
successive governments since 1970’s. India would have taken in her stride
issues like delay in handling hunger-related problems and to some extent even
corruption, if the political leadership (irrespective of denominations) had not
been dominated by greed and total neglect of the pulses of the masses, assuming
voters can be ‘handled’ once in five years by promises and sporadic sprinkling
of money accumulated in accessible pockets during the ‘previous five years’.
Srinivasa-Raghavan’s article “Lessons from the first year”(Line and length, July
4). The emergence of AAP and Modi as change agents on the Indian political
scene was the inevitability forced by the methodology in governance followed by
successive governments since 1970’s. India would have taken in her stride
issues like delay in handling hunger-related problems and to some extent even
corruption, if the political leadership (irrespective of denominations) had not
been dominated by greed and total neglect of the pulses of the masses, assuming
voters can be ‘handled’ once in five years by promises and sporadic sprinkling
of money accumulated in accessible pockets during the ‘previous five years’.
AAP proved that an
election can be fought and won without the support of a government ‘somewhere
in power’ and Modi declared that political leadership need not be hereditary.
Both AAP and Modi era may finally turn out to be passing phases in the long
political history of the nation. But the lesson they taught, namely that power
is not only about money, but has something to do with the people’s confidence
in the system will remain.
election can be fought and won without the support of a government ‘somewhere
in power’ and Modi declared that political leadership need not be hereditary.
Both AAP and Modi era may finally turn out to be passing phases in the long
political history of the nation. But the lesson they taught, namely that power
is not only about money, but has something to do with the people’s confidence
in the system will remain.
My rural instinct, on a
day the front page report in this paper screamed “Nearly half the rural
households were under deprivation in 2011” is struggling to decipher the writer’s
observation that “So for him (PM Modi) development doesn’t seem to mean growth
any longer; it means distribution”, though.
day the front page report in this paper screamed “Nearly half the rural
households were under deprivation in 2011” is struggling to decipher the writer’s
observation that “So for him (PM Modi) development doesn’t seem to mean growth
any longer; it means distribution”, though.
M G Warrier
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