Bonobashi <[email protected]> wrote: > And his role in the murder of 2000 people of his state of course > doesn't matter a tinker's f**k. > > I've seldom seen more cynical views of politics than yours.
While talking of cynical, what about results of the last two assembly elections in Gujarat? Friend of mine was posted in Gujarat as election commission's observer during the last assembly election. Post-elections, while traveling together in Madhya Pradesh, he couldn't stop comparing the poor hungry state [1] with the far more prosperous and developed and greener Gujarat of Narendra Modi, and how revered Modi is in Gujarat, how incorruptible he is... I too had seen Rakesh Sharma's documentary [2], had read that issue of Tehelka [3] dedicated to Ashish Khetan's scary stories of violence and the interviews with rioters and their colluders. So listening to this liberal, well-read, well-traveled, clearly non-communal (if he enjoys Sufi music and Buddhist literature, among other things, he can't be the garden variety Hindutva-vaadi bureaucrat, no?), well-informed, quite irreligious person enthusiastically praising Modi was quite a shock. I failed to come back to my senses so I couldn't probe it deeper during this trip. I'm guessing there must be something else going on, and there must be something in my line of thinking that prevents me from seeing what it is. So far everything I've heard appear to be grossly oversimplified editions of... something else. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7669152.stm [2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/final-solution.shtml [3] http://www.tehelka.com/home/20071103/ -- 9DB8FF06 : CB80 0BA6 7D13 B10A 6FBB D43E B4D2 28AD 9DB8 FF06
