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.

Saturday 7 February 2015

FIRST THOUGHTS ON DELHI EXIT POLLS

The averaged outcome Delhi Exit Polls – giving Aam Aadmi Party a clear majority is, no doubt, bad for Bhartiya Janata Party - but is good for Indian democracy - if AAP indeed wins on February 10, when the votes cast for the Delhi assembly polls 2015 would be counted. Going by the average of Exit Polls today (nine of them), AAP is projected to win around 40 seats while BJP is going to restrict at around 28 seats. Congress is totally decimated.

It’s not that AAP is beyond doubts. In fact there are reasonable doubts that the party needs to prove wrong, but the way some of its spokespersons were speaking or rather bragging about the projected victory on different news channels today, was not good – is not a healthy sign.

But AAP’s win is certainly good for the democratic checks and balances that say no one is sacrosanct, that demand that no particular brand is beyond the risks of refusal, that lay down that no single party should win every election, that rule that there need to be the centres of power in the federal structure of Indian democracy and those centres of power must keep on changing hands.  

And even AAP needs to remember it - if it has to expand beyond Delhi, but the time is not now. It should not forget the humiliation that it got in the Lok Sabha polls that owed its origin to AAP's selfish and unethical moves then, that forced Arvind Kejriwal to keep on apologizing for a year, for deserting Delhi, for betraying the trust people shown in him.

If AAP wins on Tuesday, Arvind Kejriwal must follow the lessons that forced him ‘to accept his mistake and offer apology’ otherwise – ‘no one is politically and electorally sacrosanct and everyone can be shown the door in a democracy like India’.

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