Glass Half Empty
Front page news about Anupam Kher being replaced as Censor Board chief.
Agreed, the Censor Board is mostly a redundant and archaiac concept in today's India, with everything that can be considered censor material, being beamed directly into our living rooms.
However, what irked me was the reason given. Apparently, Anupam Kher is a right-wing sympathizer and BJP supporter. And that's enough reason to give him the boot!!
It's slowly but surely that the UPA is now reversing practically every decision that the NDA implemented. When NDA was in power, the media were shouting themselves hoarse for any and every small misdemeanour. Now, they seem to be happy to wear blinkers and pretend that everything is hunky-dory.
I don't know about other cities in India, but I've seen Bangalore reduced to shambles after the general election. Roads are in an utter mess, flyovers are being delayed, the CET chaos simply refuses to be solved intelligently, the film industry is in limbo with activists taking the law into their own hands, and the latest is that the applicants to the Arkavathy layout sites now have to shell out extra as interest for no fault of theirs - it's due to the delay in settling the issues.
There was a headline in the supplement today - Where have all the sidewalks gone? - I wanted to laugh! Perhaps the writer should have first asked - Where have all the roads gone?!
The rest of Karnataka does not make a pretty sight either.
Meanwhile, people continue to live their lives as best they can - no amount of agitation or grievance-airing seems to make any difference. If the government had any iota of shame whatsoever, then things might just have been a little different!
At the national level, when the NDA was in power, there was some glimmer of hope, and one felt somewhat optimistic. In the opposition, however, the BJP is bumbling along hopelessly, without any sort of coherence, while the UPA, with its motley group, appears to be trying in vain to project a can-do image, while trying to camouflage the Leftist angle.
I am feeling very pessimistic about development in this country. I wish the resolution to this disagreeable state of affairs was as easy as creating a new blogspot and building a community around it!
Agreed, the Censor Board is mostly a redundant and archaiac concept in today's India, with everything that can be considered censor material, being beamed directly into our living rooms.
However, what irked me was the reason given. Apparently, Anupam Kher is a right-wing sympathizer and BJP supporter. And that's enough reason to give him the boot!!
It's slowly but surely that the UPA is now reversing practically every decision that the NDA implemented. When NDA was in power, the media were shouting themselves hoarse for any and every small misdemeanour. Now, they seem to be happy to wear blinkers and pretend that everything is hunky-dory.
I don't know about other cities in India, but I've seen Bangalore reduced to shambles after the general election. Roads are in an utter mess, flyovers are being delayed, the CET chaos simply refuses to be solved intelligently, the film industry is in limbo with activists taking the law into their own hands, and the latest is that the applicants to the Arkavathy layout sites now have to shell out extra as interest for no fault of theirs - it's due to the delay in settling the issues.
There was a headline in the supplement today - Where have all the sidewalks gone? - I wanted to laugh! Perhaps the writer should have first asked - Where have all the roads gone?!
The rest of Karnataka does not make a pretty sight either.
Meanwhile, people continue to live their lives as best they can - no amount of agitation or grievance-airing seems to make any difference. If the government had any iota of shame whatsoever, then things might just have been a little different!
At the national level, when the NDA was in power, there was some glimmer of hope, and one felt somewhat optimistic. In the opposition, however, the BJP is bumbling along hopelessly, without any sort of coherence, while the UPA, with its motley group, appears to be trying in vain to project a can-do image, while trying to camouflage the Leftist angle.
I am feeling very pessimistic about development in this country. I wish the resolution to this disagreeable state of affairs was as easy as creating a new blogspot and building a community around it!
posted by thoughtraker at 8:55 AM
2 Comments:
Hmmm, very true,if only everything was so easy then we wouldn be still a developing country past 50 years. hey, but dont loose u r hopes, lets hope someone puts sense into our nethas. keep going.
hey neelima! thanks for dropping by! how r u doing?
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