It's been a long time since i posted on my blogging site. Over the last few days, i have felt the urge of writing again.
So now i start or rather restart.
Just saw the interview of Narendra Modi by Rajat Sharma on 'Aap ki Adalat'.
Rajat Sharma appeared little generous to Modi in this interrogation, but all credits to Modi for emerging triumphant.
Modi emerging as the front runner for PMship has been due to a variety of reasons. But anyone who has seen this interview or followed him campaigning over the last few days would realise that he is taking the discourse to a different level; he is bringing in development politics when most of India has been accustomed to identity based politics at times of elections for the last many decades. Does it finally mean that India can have a genuine debate on developmental issues rather than divisive politics?
Far from it but the sands beneath are certainly shifting. Young Indians today are more concerned about jobs,roads, well being than merely identifying with people of their own castes or religion. The GDP growth is on a downward path. The present dispensation at Delhi appears incapable of handling the issues plaguing the country. Hope is what Modi is providing to the the people.
Modi has been accused of being a polarising figure. It seems his emergence as the leader has raised many a hackles both within and outside his party. Doomsday predictions are being done for muslims across the country by various political parties. Modi is being compared with Hitler. It make one wonder; are these people really secular as they project themselves to be? Election after election has seen parties trying to court the Muslims. This votebank politics whereby they instil fear among the minorities has what led to the backwardness of the Muslims. But what have the so-called secularists done for the upliftment of the minorities. Have the muslims benefited by voting such people in elections. It is time for Muslims to see through the charade presented by most political parties. Even the so-called new age politicians who claim to be fighting corruption and parading themselves as a party with a difference are following this slippery path? Can Modi with his developmental agenda improve the lot of Indians irrespective of their religion,caste,region,gender etc?
India today stands at a cross-roads today. We need someone who can provide decisive leadership at all levels. The last decade has really become our lost decade. A decade back India was mentioned in the same breath as China, but now it has merely become an after thought. Something terrible must have gone wrong to effect such changes in a small period of time. A similar trend for another few years and the term BRICS would be relegated to history, with the I missing.
The politics of 21st century has to be different from that of the preceding century. These elections are not merely about electing a government. They are about finding whether developmental politics win over identity politics. They are about hope. Can India rise again and take its rightful place in the league of nations?
Only May16th can tell. Till then we can only hope!!
So now i start or rather restart.
Just saw the interview of Narendra Modi by Rajat Sharma on 'Aap ki Adalat'.
Rajat Sharma appeared little generous to Modi in this interrogation, but all credits to Modi for emerging triumphant.
Modi emerging as the front runner for PMship has been due to a variety of reasons. But anyone who has seen this interview or followed him campaigning over the last few days would realise that he is taking the discourse to a different level; he is bringing in development politics when most of India has been accustomed to identity based politics at times of elections for the last many decades. Does it finally mean that India can have a genuine debate on developmental issues rather than divisive politics?
Far from it but the sands beneath are certainly shifting. Young Indians today are more concerned about jobs,roads, well being than merely identifying with people of their own castes or religion. The GDP growth is on a downward path. The present dispensation at Delhi appears incapable of handling the issues plaguing the country. Hope is what Modi is providing to the the people.
Modi has been accused of being a polarising figure. It seems his emergence as the leader has raised many a hackles both within and outside his party. Doomsday predictions are being done for muslims across the country by various political parties. Modi is being compared with Hitler. It make one wonder; are these people really secular as they project themselves to be? Election after election has seen parties trying to court the Muslims. This votebank politics whereby they instil fear among the minorities has what led to the backwardness of the Muslims. But what have the so-called secularists done for the upliftment of the minorities. Have the muslims benefited by voting such people in elections. It is time for Muslims to see through the charade presented by most political parties. Even the so-called new age politicians who claim to be fighting corruption and parading themselves as a party with a difference are following this slippery path? Can Modi with his developmental agenda improve the lot of Indians irrespective of their religion,caste,region,gender etc?
India today stands at a cross-roads today. We need someone who can provide decisive leadership at all levels. The last decade has really become our lost decade. A decade back India was mentioned in the same breath as China, but now it has merely become an after thought. Something terrible must have gone wrong to effect such changes in a small period of time. A similar trend for another few years and the term BRICS would be relegated to history, with the I missing.
The politics of 21st century has to be different from that of the preceding century. These elections are not merely about electing a government. They are about finding whether developmental politics win over identity politics. They are about hope. Can India rise again and take its rightful place in the league of nations?
Only May16th can tell. Till then we can only hope!!
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