--- On Thu, 11/6/09, Vinayak Hegde <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Vinayak Hegde <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] How do we survive our leaders?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 5:46 PM
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM,
> Indrajit Gupta<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Shiv,
> >
> > I've just come out of a very bad discussion on
> PakTeaHouse where the sheer rascality of the leadership of
> both India and Pakistan was on full display.
> >
> > How can any nation - and I include Bangladesh in this
> - survive such villainous leadership?
> >
> > Are we specially vile? Are other leaders the same? Are
> we all drifting along led by people who simply have no idea
> what they are doing, and why they are doing it? Is democracy
> just a sham, giving us the power to elect representatives,
> and from them leaders? without giving us the slightest say
> in what they do with the mandate?
> >
> > It is amazing that we survived Nehru and Patel, even
> Gandhi, and that the Pakistanis survived Jinnah, Ghulam
> Mohammed and Iskander Mirza (I don't want to even think
> about the military dictators) and that Bangladesh survived
> Mujeeb, Zia, Ershad and their blessed womenfolk.
>
> Pakistan survived ? for some value of survive. Just as a
> patient in
> coma is alive or a quadraplegic is alive. They cannot even
> control
> even their own territory.
>
> -- Vinayak
Thank you for your prompt and very reasoned and intelligent response. I agree
with you about your hypothesis that a nation that cannot control its own
territory is in a comatose or even a quadraplegic state. As I write this, a
copy of my father's book, "The Crimson Agenda: Maoist Protest and Terror", is
in full view. It seems to be trying to tell me something.
I have to mention that this refreshing freedom from jingoism and self-serving
cant is what endears Silk List to me.
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