Everytime the Congress hands the BJP an advantage, the BJP reciprocates in kind. Between The Congress’ bungliing in many cases has been countered by the BJP’s foot in mouth and auto canibalism problems. And then the focus on non issues – office for profit _ the Congress gifted this one to the rest – ; jinnah – wtf was Advani thinking of; terrorism, Bush’s visit – the list is fairly long.Its almost as thoguh everything is becoming bi polar for the heck of it. Why isn’t some one raising a stink on 2 more MIG pilots dead, why isn’t there a furore on the lack of a trickle down effect, why isn’t there a uproar on the state of the criminal justice system, why isn’t there a walk out on backward classes and farmer suicides. And all these are cross party issues. Where are the policy based arguments? All this posturing seems to be aimed at just one thing – keep all our attentions diverted from the real issue – where is our tax money going? ? This is a very effective zero sum game. Balance of power remains constant, and the electorate gets screwed in the bargain
A PoV
Harini Calamur's Writings
I really think over the weekend the Bhargava, Kasliwal, Priyadarshini Mattoo issues cud have been looked at as one big issue (more relevant to people) in mainstream media debates. Sonia’s sacrifice is boring after a point of time. MiG’s are going down like mosquitos in the effect of kachua. We love Rang De basanti, but Mig Crash is on page 3 bottom half of IE. Shud have been first page with a comment from Aamir Khan, Omprakash Mehra, Family, Defence – thats more interesting journalism. But yaar MIG crash mein kaunsi nai baat hai. What a super show it would have been to to bring someone from the film, someone from defense, some oen related to the family, some usual expert and talk about it. But no Sonia has made a big sacrifice.