Terror and the terrified

After a long hiatus I am back ! It took a shattering disaster for me to be back on the blogging circuit.

Yes ! I am being one of those endless cribbers who do nothing when their turn comes to do something but are quick to blame everybody or any body in a disaster or rather call it as a systemic failure. Absolutely right ! I am the one speaking on the 26th November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

It was not a terror attack in the first place since nobody was terrified ! We are a nation of gullible,stupid and forgetful people but sorry ! Sir we are not cowards and cannot be subdued by acts of mindless violence.

I say stupid,gullible and forgetful since we vote back the same set of politicians who do nothing but sleep in their mansions of safety, oblivious to the perils of everyday survival of the man on the street. These peddlers of power can be seen groping for their share of media attention in the aftermath of violence but not during it. They are like the scavenging animals who have their fill on the carcass of humanity.

It was surprising that the media was also behaving in a similar fashion with the so called keepers of moralistic values trying to up their TRP score on the scene of a death carnival.

Whom do we blame ? The politician ! Of course not. Who voted him to power ? No use cribbing. Atleast let us wake up now and have a "clean" vision of the tomorrow that is going to dawn on our children.

Election blues and reds.

The entire state of Andhra Pradesh was waiting with bated breath for the bye-elections to come to an end. It was not without the usual drama and its associated paraphernelia.
The Congress & Telugu Desam parties are a releived lot on account of their intrinsic support to have a unified Andhra Pradesh thanks to a severe drubbing of the TRS party which was for a separate Telangana.
This blog is not to analyse the wins or defeats of the political parties but to highlight the suffering of the voters ( read common man ). Mr.K.Chandra sekhar Rao should have waited for the term to get over next year instead of giving an en masse resignations pre-maturedly to highlight the backstabbing of the Congrss. This has left the state ex-chequer with a huge hole in its pockets in these trying times of inflation. Who has to bear all these expenses ? Yes ! It is we who have to bear the extravagances of the whimsical politicians.
It is high time that the constitution is amended to make it mandatory for the elected representative to continue till the term is over irrespective of his personal prejudices. There can be a bye-election only if some public repreentative has expired an has a period left over of more than 2 years. Anything less than that cannot be considered for a bye-election and has to be managed by the adminstration.
Lets hope that better sense prevails with our rulers !