ExpertDabbler

Paritrana - this is neither a bollywood flick nor the next hot thing after Mallika Sherawat. It’s a political party.

January 20, 2006 might be a very important day for all of us Indians. Just how important? I am not sure. Guess it is in our hands and the guys behind Paritrana(via youthcurry).

At a time when every Kandaswamy, Kuppuswamy and Madaswami is thinking about important things like home loans, salary hike, Vettayadu Vilayadu, Shivaji, Asin and Virender Sehwag, 5 IITians and a Chennai born US educated economics expert have come together to form Paritrana (meaning complete relief, implying the end of the very cause of distress). They’ve chosen to make India better rather than mourn about it.

It’s not as if these guys can make India better because of their IIT background.
IIT is merely a tag. I guess it just shows that they indeed have better options than politics if they want. It’s not that you need an IIT B Tech to bring about a better India. Kamaraj was not even school educated, but his rule in Tamil Nadu is still the benchmark.

But I need to cling to something to be optimistic about this country. So any small act of unselfishness, any non-materialistic behavior should be appreciated, celebrated, and supported in whatever little means. India can’t have enough of these guys. These guys could’ve gotten away out of India rather easily, much more easily than me. Nothing wrong if they’d gone either. But their choices and their decisions makes me be a little less selfish in my day-to-day acts.

Some 20 years back M S Udayamurthy returned from US and started a movement called Makkal Sakthi Iyakkam in Tiruvanmiyur. K Balachander even made a movie loosely based on MSU (Unnal Mudiyum Thambi). I wonder what happened to Makkal Sakthi Iyakkam now. Let’s see. I am optimistic this time.

Maybe these are the guys Vivekananda talked about.

‘What makes you think so?’ you might ask. ‘Why not?’ is my retort.

As I keep saying often, I am optimistic, for I don’t have an option.