Few thoughts

-The Amazon of Pakistan politics departs. Her only mistake- relentless effort to restore the D word ‘Democracy’ in Pak. Sometimes the price you pay is worth your life and more. Daughter of the East she was. I’m upset and agitated like most people around the globe. If you cannot defeat, you kill- rule of the jungle this game of democracy.

-Narendra Modi-son of Gujarat-is here again. I asked a lot Gujaratis their views on Modis thumping victory and they almost unanimously beamed with delight at his re election. Reasons being: this man brought electricity to all the villages of Gujarat, irrigation for Kutch, spread of literacy in the nook and cranny of this vast state, iron hand for beaureucratic tantrums, slashing redundant babus by half and expediting the work process, unlike the babudom that prevails and fosters in Mera Bharat Mahan et al. Close to enough reasons to call a state a progressive one, and yes with 37 per cent of India’s exports being contributed by Gujarat, certainly a progressive state, with an encouraging machinery. Cynics will keep labeling him a communist/extremist but look beyond- this man gave the common man of his state what he needs i.e. fulfilling the basic needs which in today’s time are by no means basic.

I won’t be surprised if the next IT capital is Gujarat, since Bangalore has a limping infrastructure, lack of space and needless to say- stronghold of the virus called babuism. Modi has left every door to invest and progress. This state can be a prototype for her co-states who might just learn a lesson or two if they aren’t too busy with their own agendas (communalism being an integral part of it.)

We are a united country but our development is highly fragmented. But, guess competition is an impetus for growth-how much we’re actually competing is a different thing.

Amazed: Modi after his win instead of taking the usual route to his office which is via Rupali (a Hindu dominated area) took the Chakla route (a muslim dominated patch.) I read this bit with raised eyebrows- wasn’t he afraid that a bullet from somewhere might just find him and kill his tenure then and there? Well, he was received on that route with muslims waving back at him with smiles all the way. Amazing! I say…