The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Friday 12 April 2013

SECOND GENERATION POLITICIANS OF INDIA: SO MANY OF THEM, YET SO FEW OF THEM!

Continued from:
SECOND GENERATION POLITICIANS OF INDIA: THE DIRECT ACCESS BUT..

BSP rule is no better than the SP governance the country has seen it. Besides, Mayawati is facing mammoth corruption charges and like the case with Mulayam, the probe is on.

All the high hopes that Mamata Banarjee had generated, when the people of West Bengal had chosen her over the 35 years of the Left Front rule in the state, are decimated and crushed. Mamata’s rule and her party workers have become ‘just the other anarchy’ in the state. The goons of the CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) have been replaced by the goons of the AITC.

JD(U) and BJD are doing good. The rule of these parties is relatively less corruption-tainted.

AIADMK is again a big question mark when it comes to corruption. Tamil Nadu chief minister and party chief J Jayalalitha is facing court cases on disproportionate assets charges.

We all have seen what the Left Front parties made of West Bengal, once a driver of Indian politics, economy and intellectual growth, into an utter chaos of lawlessness, corruption, poverty and intellectual starvation.

So, more of the kingmakers on the table, in case of a fragmented electoral verdict, have or have had a poor record when it comes to the politics of probity, integrity and reform.

They will squeeze and extract the maximum possible mileage bending the rules and manipulating the System to continue delaying the proceedings and diluting the charges if they come to play the kingmakers in the national politics. And emboldened, as is the case, the wheels of corruption shall keep on getting the lubrication unabashed.


Most of the names given to country by the dynasty politics has a different sort of primary deficiency – the ‘disconnect’. Though corruption has become ‘fundamental’ element of the political culture of many of such political parties, here, the ‘disconnect’ sustains and increases the corruption.

More of the names, not in the league of the dynasty politics, have the most menacing deficiency a poor democracy like India can have - insensitivity loaded with neck-deep corruption as the primary driver. Here, corruption breeds the ‘insensitivity’ that in-turns breeds the ‘disconnect’.

So many of them, yet so few of them!

How can they represent India when none of them have experienced the real India – millions under poverty line – millions struggling daily to have two square meals – millions struggling daily to buy even the most basic of the medicines – millions just staring at the schools but cannot cross into – millions dropping out of the schools – millions crushed to pay bribes daily even for their absolute rights – millions being slighted everyday by the corrupt political and bureaucratic machinery!

How can they represent India when they have comfortably forgotten the very cause of the democratic India - bringing millions of Indians out of a life of misery, millions who elect them to act on their ‘behalf’!

Instead, most of the elected lot has become antithesis to this democratic spirit. Corruption and political opportunism are creating breeding ‘grounds’ for class hostilities in India in the days to come.

The man of probity India seeks needs to act with probity and with swiftness. Time has already run out. Integrity of the man India needs must have an impartial and independent attitude.

But the way Vadra was given clean chits was brazen. The way Ajit Pawar was reinstated was shameless. The way Mamata Banarjee is justifying and defending the vandalism of the AITC in West Bengal is worrying.

These and similar other developments could have been termed shocking but more shocking is the fact that Manmohan’s ‘aam aadmi’ is getting more and more into the ‘silently reacting and silently dissenting’ attitude on the high handedness of its political rulers who have started behaving like kings.

Certainly an ominous development for the Indian democracy if left unattended! 

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/