If you have been following Indian politics closely over the past few weeks/months and if you are disillusioned at this point, I don’t blame you.
Let’s list the issues that were in focus. Off the top of my head: 2G scam, CWG scam, Adarsh society scam, mining scam, LokPal, bomb blasts, black money, Aarakshan movie controversy. If I had to see a silver lining, I’d say these are all 21st century problems. Perhaps the only exception is Aarakshan which was about a who-knows-when-it-started caste system.
Now check out the debate of Republican presidential hopefuls from yesterday. If I knew the entire timeline of the earth and I was asked to guess when some of these candidates lived, I’d easily be off by a few hundred years.
****
I’m glad I made you feel patriotic in time for Independence Day.
2 comments
Comments feed for this article
August 16, 2011 at 8:33 am
Mahesh
Deepak,
While the recent debates in U.S. between and within the “hopefuls” have been fairly terrible, the “policy debates” in MSM are definitely something we could (to put a placeholder phrase) “learn from”. Look at the debates on public healthcare and soverign debt in MSM (yes, even NYT). IMHO, the Indian MSM hardly ever reaches that depth.
August 16, 2011 at 9:50 am
Deepak
You’re right: I’m comparing the fringe in the US to the mainstream in India. But I thought the last line made that clear