OUR PIGGYBACK RIDES
I understand Politics as much as my barber understands Nuclear Physics! Especially, our Politics – the Indian Politics! How many times, they marry each other… and, how many times they dump? They know, so very well, how badly they need each other… still, they only end up using each other – till their stomachs are full – and, then, all of a sudden, they forget that they have been on a piggyback ride, all along… So, they think ‘the other’ is not required… They dump! Now, see this way: the Parties need us, the citizens, as much as we need them. Is that not so? So, they come to us for votes with their folded hands, with all the possible promises in the world… and, once we have placed them in power, they coolly forget that they had been taken there by us… on our piggyback! Well, there is another Politics… the Politics of living. The other day, my wife and I had been to the residence of one of our friends. It was the second day of Ganeshotsav … and, ...