On Monday 22 Aug 2011 9:46:51 am Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > The Hindu Arundhati Roy. File photo > > While his means maybe Gandhian, his demands are certainly not. >
LOL! Let me start with a silly schoolboy joke. This one's for you Deepa. Tecaher to student: "Who is Gandhiji's son?" Student: "Dineshan" Teacher: "What? That is rubbish" Student: But sir, you taught us that Gandhiji is the father of Dineshan" Yes. And because Gandhi is the father of the nation we have put him on a pedestal and made him God. Arundhanti Roy too has made him God. God of big things, I guess. Hazare's methods are Gandhian? Fine. Yes.I would agree with that. But what are Gandhian methods? Gandhian methods were used to blackmail the British and force them into a corner where they were damned if they did and damned if they didn't. Those who don't approve of Anna Hazare's methods are probably having a tubelight moment about exactly what Gandhi did. Guess how the British must have felt? The argument that Anna's methods do not benefit the really poor in india is a poor one even if it is valid. So what the furk is anyone going to do about it? Hazare is pesenting the country with a fait accompli. Is his cause just? Yes. Are his methods right? Probably not. But who cares , as long as they work. Everything in India revolves around "Who cares as long as it works". That includes corruption an bribery as well. When nothing works as it ought to work it is amazing to see something like Anna Hazare's protest working. Out of the blue. I'm having a great deal of fun. I am old enough to have lived through Indira Gandhi's emergency, but was young enough and stupid enough to fail to understand what was happeing in the country. Maybe that stupidity has not gone away - but hey I really don't give a damn about who does what as long as corruption can be cleaned up in this most corrupt of corrupt nations on earth. More power to Anna Hazare's cause shiv
