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.

Monday 9 November 2015

WHY IT IS NOT NITISH KUMAR'S WIN?

India won but Bihar lost yesterday.‪

Nitish Kumar may have scored a self-goal against ‪Narendra Modi but he is actually the biggest loser with ‪RJD emerging as the largest party - and with him the people of ‪Bihar.

JDU was always the largest political party in the Bihar assembly post Lalu-Rabri regime - but now the baton has changed hands - and it is now with Lalu Prasad Yadav - yesterday onwards.

And in spite of all the high hopes, the future looks scary - what if Lalu's presence in the governance causes the same old malaise to return again?

Nitish and Lalu trace their origins to the same tree but Nitish took a different political streak to emerge as Lalu Prasad Yadav's sworn enemy in Bihar politics - the sworn enemy that has been Nitish's 'friend of convenience' for quite some time now - the 'friend-turned-foe-turned-friend' who was initially adamant on 'not accepting Nitish's projection as the chief-ministerial candidate of JDU-RJD-Congress alliance'. 

Now, that 'friend-turned-foe-turned-friend' is Nitish Kumar's big brother in Bihar's politics - and he gave enough indications of it during the presser held last afternoon after the results. Not so long ago, everyone was busy writing political obituary of Lalu - and bang! - he is back in the game now - with a bang.

Well, Lalu, being convicted in the fodder scam, is legally barred from electoral politics and political office and his party RJD has no mass leaders except him - and that is the most plausible reason to make him go smoothly with Nitish - otherwise Nitish can easily split his party, a valid possibility - but that doesn't take care of political necessities of the day to day politics - that doesn't take care of the bad elements that have long been associated with RJD's politics in Bihar – a system that Nitish Kumar famously used to term 'Jungleraj'.

Even if Bihar was not on some highway of development, especially during Nitish's second term, he really did bring fundamental and positive changes in Bihar's governance and for that reason, he remains the undisputed CM choice of Bihar, but the numerical key of the government is with 'big brother' Lalu now.

With RJD lording over JDU, the threat of going back to the dark days of Lalu-Rabri regime are quite real. Nitish has this tough task of managing a difficult and unprincipled alliance with Lalu's party and we hope he succeeds or else, we will soon have another round of assembly polls in Bihar.

Or would some sense prevail on Lalu’s style of politics now??

Or can there be political developments that will lead us to see another round of JDU-BJP bonhomie?

That is in future, but for now, Lalu Prasad Yadav has emerged as the only winner in these Bihar assembly polls. 

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