RAHUL MAHAJAN is natural outcome of a weak PM!

I have seen eight of the fourteen PM India had since the independence. But never before I have been ashamed of any Prime Minister. Manmohan Singh is a nice human being. A great economist. A caring father & a loyal husband. But India does not need any one of these characteristics. We need an administrator who can rule the country with great care & an iron fist whenever situation arises. In the last six years PM has hardly been seen on the front page of any newspaper or cover page of any magazine other than the Oath ceremony or trust vote. Which type of PM he is, who never ignites confidence in the people of this country.

His failures are many and success few. Be it Kashmir, Diplomacy, Inflation, Corruption, Naxalism, CWG Mess….the Blue Turbanator has always punctured our expectation to the extent to believe India don’t have any constitutional position like the Prime Minister! When the Kashmir is burning God only knows where Manmohan Singh is! Or if he is there he must be sleeping. Doesn’t as a citizen of this country we have a right to expect that he speaks out…at least something. Mr. Prime Minister your lackadaisical attitude is leading us to believe that you might be branded as the weakest PM India ever had. Let me warn you, your image is eroding faster than expected. Forget Deve Gowda or Gujaral, they never posses the mandate you have. Sir, it’s your constitutional obligation to ignite faith in the people of this country which unfortunately is eroding. As the Prime Minister candidate we have given you the mandate to rule or ‘mis-rule’ not ‘miss-rule’. India is getting the impression that they have elected a PM who is constitutionally obliged to serve 10 Janpath. We are feeling cheated, left out in lurch.

See, how Rahul Mahajans & Rakhi Sawants are filling the void you have created in the media. They are counting your weakness as their blessing! Unfortunately we unlike West don’t have firms to measure weekly approval rating. I can bet your’s would have touched nadir within a year of UPA –II. Please do something for this country sir. Your proverbial “Aam Aadmi” is in great trouble. Pressed by monster headed inflation, pissed off with mess in the CWG, ashamed by rampant corruption, fearful of Naxals. We have voted for ‘haath’ not your ‘laat’. Please don’t let Rahul & Rakhi eat up your legitimate space. Wake up Sid!

WikiLeaks and continuity

The Reaction of revelations on Wikileaks was unbearably lighter than we have a right to expect — not because the story isn’t sensational or troubling enough, but because it’s too troubling, a mess we cannot fix and therefore prefer to forget…. The mental model on which most investigative journalism is based states that explosive revelations lead to public outcry; elites get the message and reform the system. But what if elites believe that reform is impossible because the problems are too big, the sacrifices too great, the public too distractible? What if cognitive dissonance has been insufficiently accounted for in our theories of how great journalism works…and often fails to work?