"Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent
and never betrays"
—Margaret Atwood (Canadian, 1939)
Word
for the day
Toggery (n)
Clothes; garments; togs.
A clothing shop.
Malice
towards none
BJP and SAD should contest
forthcoming Punjab elections separately.
If need be, they could come
together post election, like BJP and SS did in Maharashtra.
First random
thought this morning
I am unable to find an appropriate expression to describe the
present state of affair of the Congress Party.
It's got to be more than a tragicomedy, when the usually sober people
like Dr. Manmohan Singh and P. Chidambaram start talking like the usually
indecorous people like Digvijay Singh and Rahul Gandhi.
In support of "The Radicals"
It would be fair to assume that
most students will leave the answer sheets blank leave the examination hall,
distraught.
Some may try to test their
ingenuity and offer literary solutions to the complicated problems, still
hoping to score zilch.
A few would however contend that
being students of literature, they are naturally the only genius around. These
few would offer detailed literary explanations which may not make any sense to
the conventional students of physics or literature; and still insist that the
solutions offered by them are the best. Hoping to pass with distinction, they
might also take this opportunity to ridicule the students of physics and
celebrate their superiority. This small group is popularly referred to as
"The Radicals".
I am inclined to view the present
day global economy as the examination hall described above. Almost none of the
participants (economists, bankers, administrators, politicians, regulators,
traders, borrowers, lenders, consumers, producers, et. al.) seems to have any
clue.
Absolutely clueless most may be
about solutions, they can apparently read the problems. And that is precisely
what they are doing day and night - reading the problem; sometime in hush-hush
sounds; sometimes raising the decibel to the maximum; sometimes in the secret
chambers and sometimes in front of the mammoth crowds; sometimes with audacity
and sometimes with jitters in their spine.
The Radicals are the one who are
offering solutions. Totally unassimilated, these solutions naturally do not
appeal to the conventional mindset.
These solutions are therefore
mostly liable to be rejected as hazardous, for these seek to rattle the status
quo.
These are also condemned to the
derision of the conformist and purist, as they approach the problem from a
completely unexpected tangent.
Admittedly, these solutions may
very well fail to solve any of the problems, global economy is facing today; or
even exacerbate the problems. Although this cannot be known today. As
Shakespeare would tell us “There are many events in the womb of time which will
be delivered.”
What matters today is to make an
effort, howsoever radical or unassimilated it may seem. That is what is needed
to administer a sense of calm on the stressed nerves of the common people, who
are finding the current conditions unfairly severe to them.
On my part, therefore, I fully
appreciate what the Radicals like Trump and Modi are doing or may try to do. I
would like to wait what the time delivers.
In next few days, I would like to
share my thoughts on the problems India is facing and today, and what could be
the solutions to these problems.
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