It has been 17 years since the Babri Masjid demolition and we now know for sure what we knew already, thanks to Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan. The key leaders of the BJP and RSS have been indicted for inciting the flame of communal violence which then spread throughout the nation which, according to the Constitution and our school Civics textbooks, is secular. We cringe when we think back to the time when the persons, who face criminal charges now, had been elected by us to rule the country for 5 years at the Centre. We are happy that the BJP was not able to win the latest Lok Sabha elections.
While all this is true, also equally veracious is the fact that the party which is ruling the nation currently is nowhere near being described as honest and righteous. A quarter of a century ago, the nation witnessed the largest ever Genocide since Independence. The assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards (who were allegedly enraged at her having triggered a rampage at their holy shrine), did not in any way call for a massacre of all Sikhs in India. The incident is and will for ever be a horrible scar on any secular face that the Congress tries to put up. Jagdish Tytler may have been barred from contesting the polls and a Sikh may have been appointed the Prime Minister, but these will do nothing to replace the lost loved ones from the many Sikh families, run and brought up by a single parent (mother), if any, in most cases.
This brings to mind the discussion of the possible stability and goodness of a government that could probably have been formed by the recently created (and soon disoriented) Third Front. That event can only be described by a Poisson Distribution of probability, for it was known to be very much impossible right from the very beginning. Well, assuming that the impossible had somehow occurred, there would have been a certain consequence- the rapid breaking up of the disparate parties in the coalition.
I don't even want to discuss the comical "Fourth Front" formed by Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan! Another Poisson must be born to invent a probability distribution for such an occurrence!
So, this brings me to the title of this post- a perfect government. Does such a thing ever exist?
Mani Ratnam may have portrayed youth entering the Parliament to bring in reforms and a breath of fresh air in 'Ayutha Ezhuthu'/'Yuva'. But I feel that there is a significance in the movie ending even as the young guys enter the Parliament after being elected. There is no assurance of a honest government even then. After all, human beings do tend to get corrupted by the attraction of money and power. Even if one single person tries to be proper, the environment simply doesn't let him/her to be so. Movies like 'Mudhalvan' can only be movies. Not reality.
Asking for an impeccable governance and honest rulers (though this might not be a valid generalization, I take the liberty of considering a majority who are not) or claiming to be able to provide one is pure Hypocrisy! Let's avoid it and try to be pragmatic and elect whichever government provides us an optimum amount of benefits, after all the trade-offs involved.
While all this is true, also equally veracious is the fact that the party which is ruling the nation currently is nowhere near being described as honest and righteous. A quarter of a century ago, the nation witnessed the largest ever Genocide since Independence. The assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards (who were allegedly enraged at her having triggered a rampage at their holy shrine), did not in any way call for a massacre of all Sikhs in India. The incident is and will for ever be a horrible scar on any secular face that the Congress tries to put up. Jagdish Tytler may have been barred from contesting the polls and a Sikh may have been appointed the Prime Minister, but these will do nothing to replace the lost loved ones from the many Sikh families, run and brought up by a single parent (mother), if any, in most cases.
This brings to mind the discussion of the possible stability and goodness of a government that could probably have been formed by the recently created (and soon disoriented) Third Front. That event can only be described by a Poisson Distribution of probability, for it was known to be very much impossible right from the very beginning. Well, assuming that the impossible had somehow occurred, there would have been a certain consequence- the rapid breaking up of the disparate parties in the coalition.
I don't even want to discuss the comical "Fourth Front" formed by Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan! Another Poisson must be born to invent a probability distribution for such an occurrence!
So, this brings me to the title of this post- a perfect government. Does such a thing ever exist?
Mani Ratnam may have portrayed youth entering the Parliament to bring in reforms and a breath of fresh air in 'Ayutha Ezhuthu'/'Yuva'. But I feel that there is a significance in the movie ending even as the young guys enter the Parliament after being elected. There is no assurance of a honest government even then. After all, human beings do tend to get corrupted by the attraction of money and power. Even if one single person tries to be proper, the environment simply doesn't let him/her to be so. Movies like 'Mudhalvan' can only be movies. Not reality.
Asking for an impeccable governance and honest rulers (though this might not be a valid generalization, I take the liberty of considering a majority who are not) or claiming to be able to provide one is pure Hypocrisy! Let's avoid it and try to be pragmatic and elect whichever government provides us an optimum amount of benefits, after all the trade-offs involved.
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