Wonderful ... the Esteemed His Honorable Home Minister is concerned about the image projected to the visiting Putin and globally by the protests. Somehow this falls into the same category of mind-set that I had questioned in a debate/discussion in which I represented my school in 9th Std (I think; somewhere in Kandivali, M'bay) where I asked whether (can't type this in Devnagari) ".... hazaro saalo ki parampara hain..." --- "Did one of the most populous regions of the world manage to have its populace stop thinking...?". I was immediately 'asked' by the judges to leave the podium and then escorted out of the venue :) I have since realized that the event was sponsored by groups who would be considered now to be affiaited with those in the parliamentary opposition.
Hence some of my earlier statements (on other media - need to figure out a good cheap way of integrating) about having a forum for rational discourse - non-partisanship is implied. I am still surprised with the aversion to even refer to charged topics in India ... with the reason being given "... please let us not discuss politics...", when the issue is with basic governance and trust of the populace.
It seems that all political parties have used that and the state of governance here has been no different from the days of the Raj - the machinery and hence its mindset remains the same.
Hence some of my earlier statements (on other media - need to figure out a good cheap way of integrating) about having a forum for rational discourse - non-partisanship is implied. I am still surprised with the aversion to even refer to charged topics in India ... with the reason being given "... please let us not discuss politics...", when the issue is with basic governance and trust of the populace.
It seems that all political parties have used that and the state of governance here has been no different from the days of the Raj - the machinery and hence its mindset remains the same.
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