Dilli ka Rajah kaun banega? Ji hanh--kaun? Gupta, Kejriwal or Dikshit?
Two days are left and Delhi--ites are wondering.
When Dolly takes her morning walk in Humayun's Tomb she too is wondering--but her question is something larger--when did Cynicism in Indian society grow so endemic in our society that we say--aise hi hota hai? Honesty does not seem to matter much--the emphasis is on deliverance---do we look for honesty and probity in Public Life--or do we look for ...bhai kaam ho jana chahiye?
These are ponderous questions---and there is no clear answer---but the election results in Delhi will tell us how deep the roots of cynicism have grown in this blatantly capitalist age, a capitalist age in which there are no checks and balances, where Public Opinion has not yet matured into a vote share to claim this role. Delhi will be a Show Case to measure if the intelligentsia has become the critical vote--bank mass to influence Votes as they did Policy in the Damini Sexual Assault Case....
Dolly asks the Delhi Public--what will it be--Truth or Deliverance. As the winter chill forces her to drape her shawl tighter, she gazes up at the spread out foliage of the neem trees and think how much simpler it was in Humayun's times, you just chopped a head, and the answer lay in the sword.
Two days are left and Delhi--ites are wondering.
When Dolly takes her morning walk in Humayun's Tomb she too is wondering--but her question is something larger--when did Cynicism in Indian society grow so endemic in our society that we say--aise hi hota hai? Honesty does not seem to matter much--the emphasis is on deliverance---do we look for honesty and probity in Public Life--or do we look for ...bhai kaam ho jana chahiye?
These are ponderous questions---and there is no clear answer---but the election results in Delhi will tell us how deep the roots of cynicism have grown in this blatantly capitalist age, a capitalist age in which there are no checks and balances, where Public Opinion has not yet matured into a vote share to claim this role. Delhi will be a Show Case to measure if the intelligentsia has become the critical vote--bank mass to influence Votes as they did Policy in the Damini Sexual Assault Case....
Dolly asks the Delhi Public--what will it be--Truth or Deliverance. As the winter chill forces her to drape her shawl tighter, she gazes up at the spread out foliage of the neem trees and think how much simpler it was in Humayun's times, you just chopped a head, and the answer lay in the sword.
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