People Welfare Day - 1, Mayawati Welfare Day - 364

Mayawati, the future Prime Minister in waiting (at least that's what she thinks), wants to celebrate her birthday as "Peoples Welfare Day".

Wasn't she elected to do the welfare of the people throughout the year till the end of her elected term? Now that we know that she cares about the welfare of the people for one day in the year, we can count our good graces that the odds of people welfare in the Mayawati administration are 1 in 365.

So on that hopeful note, I wish the people of Uttar Pradesh a very happy new year.

Realities of Coalition Politics - Everybody is a Kingmaker

If you wanted an reality check on coalition politics go no further then the headline.

Just goes on to show how a small bunch of fringe parties can hold hostage an entire state. For state like Jharkhand, whose vast source of natural resources would be the envy of most other states, it is rather appalling that it remains one of the least developed states in the country. The opposite holds true for politicians.

From Madhu Koda to Shibu Soren, everybody has taken turns to and bilked corers from the state coffers.

Signs of the Times

In a sign of the beating the world's greatest golfer has taken, there are now parody video games available which mock at anything and everything that was Tiger Woods. Some of them are just hilarious, like the one which mocks how Tiger survey's the greens before he makes a putt.

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Fast Onto Death - How a Non Violent Tool Became a Tool to Blackmail the State

While Mahatma Gandhi used the one of the tools of non violence i.e. fast onto death to further a selfless cause, the same tool has been used by K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) to further his own cause.

For those who are not familiar with recent development, KCR used the fast onto death as a tool to blackmail the central government to agree for the creation of a separate Telangana state

Of course whenever the state is created, it is KCR who stands to benefit from this, as he has become the undisputed leader of the Telangana cause.

On the same issue, I read two very interesting blog posts.

The first one is by TJS George, who writes:

The success of Chandrasekhara Rao’s death-fast threat for Telangana takes the game to parochialism of a negative kind. His objective is personal gain. He had lost his political base, lost his party allies and lost even the recent elections in the state. Now, in one fell sweep, he has assured himself the chief ministership of Telangana State if and when it materialises. A classic case of zero to hero.

This is good for Chandrasekahara Rao and bad for Telengana and very bad for India. It is bad for Telangana because Chandrasekhara Rao is just a run-of-the-mill politician. Any government he heads will be one more exercise in the usual sharing of spoils

The second is by Amit Varma, who writes:

The TRS isn’t just about blackmail, of course—they’re also using standard political gundagardi. I find it delightfully ironical that after Rao broke his fast by having orange juice for health reasons, the “students who had attacked policemen and public and private property for two days to support Mr Rao did not take kindly to this sudden decision.” They might have suspected that Rao was not sufficiently dedicated to their cause, to which I’d respond that no politician is devoted to any cause other than himself. That’s human nature. Orange juice zindabad.

Read the complete post by TJS George From patriotism to parochialism
Read the complete post by Amit Varma Fast Onto Death

HDDG for HDTV

With our humble farmer, son of the soil HD Devegowda endorsing the HDTV, all you TV lovers, its time to get rid of your old idiot box and get set to buy a new one. Look at the upside, you can see HDDG snoozing with crystal clear picture now. Who would want to miss on that.



Link obtained from Son of Bosey