Political, Who Me???

Someone I was talking to yesterday expressed surprise over my more than apparent excitement/apprehension/absolute tension over the political drama yesterday. When I thought about it, I realised they were right!! I am not a political person, but yesterday I was looking on at the proceedings through a purely economic perspective.

Though India is being lauded for its growth and is the new "it" place, in all honesty our ascendancy has just begun. We have a long way to go........a looooooong way. We are about 75 years behind the West in terms of economics and infrastructure and about 200 years behind them in civic consiousness and social skills. Its nothing to be ashamed about, but you can't use the British Raj as an excuse for being counted among the Third World forever. There comes a time when you not only have to pick up the pieces and move on, but aim to walk shoulder to shoulder.

With the UPA and the current leadership... we have a chance. With leaders like Dr. Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram, Sonia Gandhi and Kapil Sibal, we have at the helm leaders with conviction and integrity and a razor sharp mind to boot. They use this mind to electrify villages, boost commerce etc and not scheme and plot and hurl the country into a civil war (which almost happened after the Babri Masjid tragedy).

On a side note, I am a new convert to the "I love Laloo Prasad" fanclub. Yes he is an uneducated boor, who interrupts reporters to spit out his paan. Yes, he is a conman and has cheated the country out of millions and has hair growing out of his years. (Wait where was I going with this). Oh yeah!! His speech yesterday, was hands down, the funniest, wittiest, most sardonic hard-hitting piece of oratory I have heard in a long time!!! Bravo! He used the "meethi churi" approach, he cut his opponents to size and was sweet at the same time. I also like Rahul Gandhi's and Chidambarams speech and only wish the PM was given the opportunity to speak. Ah!!! I CANNOT stop raving over what happened yesterday.

And considering this is MY blog and I have all the freedom to do as I wish, I do not plan to stop raving about it anytime soon. :P :P So there!!