Friday, September 28, 2007

Barking dogs seldom bite

As my friend Quint said... Enough with the celebrations of winning the Twenty 20 WC. Its time to move on and I just thought of another issue which has been rocking the central boat for quite some time. Yes, its the Nuclear deal I'm talking about.Well I'm not detailing into pros and cons of the nuclear deal now. I just want to talk about the role of 'Left' in this matter.

The Left which has a major say in the central government took strong exception to the stand of Prime minister to not discuss the matter in the parliament had left many a people wondering whether is this the beginning of the end for the UPA government. But the Left has only flattered to deceive in this matter. They started making much noise about the '123 agreement', the Hyde Act and crying that India would lose its sovereignty blah blah. If you see the behavior of the left brigade through out its history, it has always sought to be iconoclastic and radical but failed to do so. It acted as British informants during the Quit India movement, openly supported the Chinese during the Chinese invasion in 1962 and now this. They always think that they are a different breed and believes that they are the sole representatives of Indian Public even though the truth tells a different story.

There is one demand which I found very valid was to have a dialogue on the deal, still the actions followed by the Left were childish and immature to the core. Ranting and raving cannot fool the people in this age. They were left in a quandary with the prime minister taking a very brave, obstinate stand and even challenging the Left to withdraw support to the government. They know they just can't bring down the government because that'd give the BJP a chance to ride the Ram Sethu issue and recapture power. The problem with the communists they accept their mistakes after pretty long times which make them look like a bunch of clowns. Now it seems like the initial enthusiasm of the Left has gone and they are trying to save their skin while making a noise or two once in a while. Well I really like the Left a lot because it always gives a chance to smile at the current political scenario in India.But this time it had taken it a bit far. Here is my $0.02 to Prakash Karat. If you can't do it stop barking.

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11 Comments:

Blogger quintarantino said...

Let me ask you one or two things: when you refer to Left you are talking about Communists or even Democratic Left (Socialist type, for instance)?
never new that happened about being guys supporting and aiding brits when they were in India.
Anyhow, I'm more of a socialist kind but I must say you have a reason there. For instance, here in Portugal now it's Socialist Party in government but they are doing things no Right party did (well in Democracy).
As for "nukes" I'm don't have a strong position on that.
I guess if Pakistan has the bomb, India can have it too. Not forgetting those untrustfull Chinese guys.
Please, entitle me with more information. Loving to know about a giant like India.

1:38 AM  
Blogger Pijush said...

still the actions followed by the Left were childish and immature to the core. - Totally agree. I donno when they will mature so that WB can develope a little bit

11:54 PM  
Blogger Jo said...

Quint has an interesting point here. Last weekend while I was in Bangalore, a friend called me a communist. I said I don't know what communism is, or socialism too for that matter, and am just on the left side of the thought process. Being left doesnt mean being communist. but unfortunately in India, left means communists. And each time those clowns to bags money in the name of poor does some stupid acts, all left ideologists are blamed in the same breath.

Rowdy, you are right when you said that communists make clowns of themselves. But just look at the other side. The BJP lot. These days they also give us a lot more chances to ROTFL.

5:08 AM  
Blogger Rowdy said...

@Quint

I'm sorry for replying a bit late. i was busy with work and travel. I was talking about the communists. They neither follow communism nor socialism. They always think that they are the sole apostles of the needy, downtrodden ones. You know these are the people who once denounced the use of power tillers fields saying it would render people jobless. LOL. Later they objected the computerization in Government institutions citing the same reason. God only knows when do they get some sense.

Yeah India had a socialist view only during the days of Jawahar Lal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Sastri. The political integrity went into a disarray very systematically in the last few decades. Now you see every kind of evil like rest of the nations.

Meanwhile as you said India is a giant in few fields but is a toddler in many fields. It's still a growing economy. The greatest boon is India has a very young population. I'll try to post more India-centric matters.

Hope you are having a great time.

6:01 AM  
Blogger Rowdy said...

@piyush
Yeah but its changing under Buddha Deb, but I don't endorse what he did in Singur or Nandigram

@Jo

Yeah BJP always had a problem of 'Put your foot in your mouth' syndrome. And its no different from other parties.

6:11 AM  
Blogger quintarantino said...

Hi there Rowdy and Jo... thanks for your kind comments and help.
As for has I know India has an enormous history and civilizations, is growing to be a giant on some areas (computers, software, programming, for instance) but still haves some social issues to be solved.
But I guess younger generations can take things in their hands and wrk things out.

On portuguesemanof war my sis shows a link you say isn´t working... try this:

http://amaliarodrigues.lisbon52.com

Once there, I think you will have the change to listen to more than one music. And there are some that are quite nice. Other so and so. And those with Don Byas on sax are great.

6:15 AM  
Blogger quintarantino said...

Rowdy: this time, no comment. Started yesterday a new idea. It's called UNITEDPHOTOS.BLOGSPOT.COM and we are tryong to het bloggers form all the world. Care to join us? If so, email me to qfpinto@gmail.com.

2:00 AM  
Blogger quintarantino said...

Sorry... can´t find your e-mail anywhere. Could you please contact me by qfpinto@gmail.com?

1:57 PM  
Blogger quintarantino said...

And after joining, feel free to invite other bloggers...

1:58 PM  
Blogger quintarantino said...

Are you on strike, my man?

1:36 PM  
Blogger Rowdy said...

@ Quint

No my dear friend. It's just that my hands are tied down with work. It is just escalating a bit. but I'll be back this week.

And I'm really sorry for being silent for sometime. :(

1:26 AM  

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