the Great Indian Tamasha is rolling on and lots of people seem to be having a lot of fun taking potshots at each other in various media.
but spare a thought for the sheer logistics and management skills required to pull off a feat where over 800 million folk like up to show their finger! and to get a functioning government - even if it looks like a patchwork quilt stitched by a navajo on kaya - is by far the best salute to the indian spirit!
we read somewhere that "matching voter expectations with government capacity in such an astonishingly complex nation is a daunting governance challenge" and whoever wins the elections will know that he / she has work ahead!
lounging on our sofa here in the sands, we have been dwelling on the merits of the city state and its ability to foster a better quality of life. we are of the firm opinion that the motherland is just too massive for effective federal governance. we are especially peeved that bombay is treated like a dark horse both by the powers and by its own residents!! we need to be carved out as a separate territory, centrally administered and freed of the burden of carrying aspirations of politicians from the mofussil who care more for their patch of dirt than bombay.
and finally, the day the NRI can vote from his adopted country will be the day when india will truly stand out as a model of democracy!
but spare a thought for the sheer logistics and management skills required to pull off a feat where over 800 million folk like up to show their finger! and to get a functioning government - even if it looks like a patchwork quilt stitched by a navajo on kaya - is by far the best salute to the indian spirit!
we read somewhere that "matching voter expectations with government capacity in such an astonishingly complex nation is a daunting governance challenge" and whoever wins the elections will know that he / she has work ahead!
lounging on our sofa here in the sands, we have been dwelling on the merits of the city state and its ability to foster a better quality of life. we are of the firm opinion that the motherland is just too massive for effective federal governance. we are especially peeved that bombay is treated like a dark horse both by the powers and by its own residents!! we need to be carved out as a separate territory, centrally administered and freed of the burden of carrying aspirations of politicians from the mofussil who care more for their patch of dirt than bombay.
and finally, the day the NRI can vote from his adopted country will be the day when india will truly stand out as a model of democracy!
