Everyone is looking at the coming week with great anticipation. With the US debt ceiling crisis induced nervousness, the fluctuating stock market, all major banks discouraging spends, SBI's performance, the two big scams and madam Gandhi recuperating away from all this, we have a perfect recipe for what can be hailed as "the most interesting week of all times in post Independence India"!!
This week the Team Anna led Civil society is going back in history to re-start the Civil disobedience movement in one of the Delhi parks. Team Anna has been calling all the shots and the government is like a sitting duck! The present govt is been painted as the MOST corrupt by this team... But for me it is MOST uncommunicative. Why dont they call the shots? After all they are in power. Have they forgotten that they "are" the government? They should control the game and the rules. Effectiveness of government is not when it gives full page ads and runs television spots of its schemes but when it seeks a dialog with its people. Staying in clean areas of Delhi and travelling on roads cleared for their movements, our leaders might have lost touch with reality. But this is one chance for them to open their minds to the public. This week presents an excellent platform for the govt in power and all political parties to really "connect" with its people.
I dont understand the complicated US election process. I tried very hard to follow but the voting, the senate, the representation model, are all very complex for "our" type of democracy. Maybe i will understand it next time around... What i like abt them though is the public debates. The intra party, as well as the inter party. They are fair, they are televised and they really bring out the issue and its multiple point of views.
Remember how we used to debate at school? With passion and power of our conviction. Of course, the topics were lame but the way we spoke and arguments that we presented as school children, made everyone in the audience think too.
Let us give our leaders a chance to explain their point of view. We have elected them to the Parliament. We thought they can do the country good. They have been quiet abt many issues, god knows for what reason. But this week, they cannot afford to be silent. We cannot go down in history on account of a govt not having a say in matters that matter the most. The country cannot be bullied either by the Team Anna or the UPA. This country has a will. We have persisted and functioned. We have progressed and developed. We, the people of India.
Let these 10 speakers do a televised debate on the most crucial stand off points in the Jan Lokpal and the Govts Lokpal - bringing the PM and judiciary under the purview, the sitting MPs, govt officials of all ranks, the state lokpals, etc - and let us watch it and try to understand the logic. Yes, there is a friction and it is important. We need to know both sides of the story, and right now, unfortunately, we are being fed only one side!
Let the electronic media people be silent for once and let the people who actually matter speak. Due to consecutive victories where the power of the fourth estate was displayed, it now believes that it can judge the government too. It has forgotten to be unbiased and report facts. And this week, all media should do just that - REPORT FACTS. Dont colour it with your political leanings. Stay away from headlines that sell. Dont print / relay irresponsible statements from non-actors in this high drama. This week is bigger than any of your little profits and TRPs.
Let us all make sure this week doesnt bring down everything we have built together.
This week the Team Anna led Civil society is going back in history to re-start the Civil disobedience movement in one of the Delhi parks. Team Anna has been calling all the shots and the government is like a sitting duck! The present govt is been painted as the MOST corrupt by this team... But for me it is MOST uncommunicative. Why dont they call the shots? After all they are in power. Have they forgotten that they "are" the government? They should control the game and the rules. Effectiveness of government is not when it gives full page ads and runs television spots of its schemes but when it seeks a dialog with its people. Staying in clean areas of Delhi and travelling on roads cleared for their movements, our leaders might have lost touch with reality. But this is one chance for them to open their minds to the public. This week presents an excellent platform for the govt in power and all political parties to really "connect" with its people.
The muted leadership make me think of Congress not as an elephant with a devil-make-care swagger but with an aged dinosaur who has to think 25 million times before it can take a dump. This is our cue to find a workable solution before we allow everyone to bite into this so called revolution and sink the whole country into anarchy.
I dont understand the complicated US election process. I tried very hard to follow but the voting, the senate, the representation model, are all very complex for "our" type of democracy. Maybe i will understand it next time around... What i like abt them though is the public debates. The intra party, as well as the inter party. They are fair, they are televised and they really bring out the issue and its multiple point of views.
Remember how we used to debate at school? With passion and power of our conviction. Of course, the topics were lame but the way we spoke and arguments that we presented as school children, made everyone in the audience think too.
This week, the media will be there to cover and sensationalise every blimp in Anna Hazare's blood pressure. But we as media people can do better than that.
Wherever the Delhi Police allow the "fast unto death", the media should invite the Congress party to put up a stage on the opposite side. (Just like in Coolie, where Sr Bachchan and Kader Khan have a stand off.) Let there be 5 speakers from the the govt and 5 speakers from the Civil society.
Let us give our leaders a chance to explain their point of view. We have elected them to the Parliament. We thought they can do the country good. They have been quiet abt many issues, god knows for what reason. But this week, they cannot afford to be silent. We cannot go down in history on account of a govt not having a say in matters that matter the most. The country cannot be bullied either by the Team Anna or the UPA. This country has a will. We have persisted and functioned. We have progressed and developed. We, the people of India.
Let these 10 speakers do a televised debate on the most crucial stand off points in the Jan Lokpal and the Govts Lokpal - bringing the PM and judiciary under the purview, the sitting MPs, govt officials of all ranks, the state lokpals, etc - and let us watch it and try to understand the logic. Yes, there is a friction and it is important. We need to know both sides of the story, and right now, unfortunately, we are being fed only one side!
Let the electronic media people be silent for once and let the people who actually matter speak. Due to consecutive victories where the power of the fourth estate was displayed, it now believes that it can judge the government too. It has forgotten to be unbiased and report facts. And this week, all media should do just that - REPORT FACTS. Dont colour it with your political leanings. Stay away from headlines that sell. Dont print / relay irresponsible statements from non-actors in this high drama. This week is bigger than any of your little profits and TRPs.
Let us all make sure this week doesnt bring down everything we have built together.
Couldn't Agree more Nino. Team Anna is raking up the points more because they are vocal abt their demands and reasoning and the govt's credibility is in doubt cause they are not open about the reasons for their stand. They cannot treat this country like a bunch of teenagers who are told whats good for them with no explainations. We need to know.
ReplyDeleteadvisors on both sides are doing a really bad job. its like one mistake after next on both ends. if both versions of the bill are presented, and televised, it will resolve this national tamasha in less than a day.
ReplyDeletewhats hurting most is media isnt presenting an objective view either.