{"id":2863,"date":"2011-08-20T23:59:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2011-08-20T23:59:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T18:59:54","slug":"just-when-you-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/08\/20\/just-when-you-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When You Thought &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you\u00a0thought that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Government can&#8217;t get stupider, they go and prove you wrong. Why would anyone in their right mind arrest Anna Hazare?<\/li>\n<li>the Parliament was useless, you hear brilliant debates. Arun Jaitley was fantastic. was telling someone form ULL that they should run excerpts of that speech as a\u00a0Vaseline\u00a0viral \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li> the Civil Society is sensible, you have &#8216;Kiran Bedi talking about Anna is India and India is Anna&#8217;. What is wrong with that woman&#8230; and frankly I find it strange that someone who would get her child into a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dkvblog.sulekha.com\/blog\/post\/2007\/08\/demonising-a-lady-officer-the-case-of-kiran-bedi.htm\">leading medical college<\/a><\/strong> on a NE quota would be at the forefront of fighting corruption. Nepotism is also corruption.<\/li>\n<li>it can&#8217;t get worse, there is Team Anna&#8217;s version of the Jan Lok Pal Bill &#8230;read it in its\u00a0entirety to know why its terrible<\/li>\n<li>propaganda is the purview of political parties, comes a brilliantly orchestrated campaign by Team Anna&#8230;(bows in respect to the media managers)<\/li>\n<li>there can be no unity &#8211; there are interesting formations for and against the Civil Society&#8217;s protest. left and right on either side &#8230;maybe this is the\u00a0beginning\u00a0of new political equations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you\u00a0thought that: the Government can&#8217;t get stupider, they go and prove you wrong. Why would anyone in their right mind arrest Anna Hazare? the Parliament was useless, you hear brilliant debates. 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