For years I have been a fan of this intelligent, quiet, unassuming man. But
while it is one thing to hold the finance portfolio of a country, it is quite
another to head a pluralistic country of 1.2 billion people.
Not for one moment can I imagine a member of the Nehru family, sitting in their
offices writing memos and contemplating on deplorable situations. No, they
would be in the thick of it, walking the streets, talking to people and risking
the bullet if need be. Nehru himself would have jumped into the fray, asking to
be killed first. Unfortunately Manmohan proved to be an administrator rather
than a man of action.
The country is rendered spineless in the absence of leadership. Why can't we
ban extremist groups in India? What stops us from doing the logical thing, the
right thing? What else, besides the same lack of will that has made every
policy to curb our population, ineffectual. And now that we are a "Democratic"
country with 1.2 billion to steer into education and some sort of
sustainability, we are left groping in the dark, playing vote-bank politics and
cannibalizing whatever merit we have earned through the economic boom.
selma
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--- On Thu, 9/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Left urges Prez to ban VHP, Dal
> A delegation led by Brinda Karat urges the government to
> put the outfits at least under 'serious monitoring'
> if it could not ban them
>
