With the population explosion in India, i think everything will become rationed. from beaches to travel!!

I think there are 2 kinds of politician in today’s India. One kind is those who consider governing India as their birth right like the Gandhi’s and other families. And the other kind who as u say have come from the grass root level and seen the political system as a means of escapism. Though they were elected in the first place for something to be done.

Makes sense the ones in power.. they have no motivation to change and lot of incentives to keep things as is…

Same applies for left as well.. Only thing i need to give them credit for… i think.. they don’t indulge in mainstream corruption as the other leaders
Imagine MK or JJ holding 50 MPs and knowing that their support will alone keep the govt.
They would’ve demanded no less than 10 cabinet posts.
The vasool vettai would’ve been on completely different scale after that.

They stick to their policies only that the policies are self-defeating at best.

I know one mallu friend always said Cong govt in kerala is more corrupt but he would prefer that over the left anyday

Kasu kuduthalavadhu velai nadakkum ngra philosophy…

When the common man doesn’t have any major problems and society is by large prosperous, it will be difficult for the Left to survive.

That’s why the Left create fresh problems real or imagined when existing ones disappear.

It is not that these politicians sitting in a/c cabins don’t know about the grass root realities. They don’t just care.

Actually many of these politicians will have very well experienced the grass roots and faced all the problems. This experience itself drives people to get into politics and indulge in corruption as a means for a ‘better life’.

Ultimately society only cares about what people become in terms of money/position and not really what corruption they indulge on the way up.

Prabu, this brings us to your recent post about Public vs Private !.

thanks. Actually this ‘losing touch with reality’ would happen in designing any system. For e.g you and me think this petro card thing would work great. But may not necessarily be so. Adhuku dhaan there should be a way to monitor the situation and make changes as needed based on feedback in terms of actions..feedback in terms of what people do is much more reliable than what people say…

I guess there should be at least a formal way in whch tax payers express their displeasure over the way the fund are channelised.

But this should not be used as an excuse for willful tax evasion.. ipdiyum neraya peru irukaanga

Most of the elected representatives sit in air conditioned cabins and formulate policies when they don’t even know what happens in the grass root level.