This is a good example of an article whose title has no connection to the contents. Maybe the editor wants to test how many commentators have bothered to read it. Seems like most haven’t.
Rajiv Gandhi died nearly 30 years ago. If he had irredeemably sealed India’s economic fate, then why did AB Vajpeyi fight an election? Why did Narendra Modi fight two elections? Did these people think they were going out on a picnic? Propensity of the BJP leaders and sympathizers like AK Bhattacharya to pass the blame on others, dead or alive, is phenomenal.
In 30 years from 1978, China hosted the Beijing Olympics. A coming out party, which told the world the dragon was a force to be reckoned with. Coincidentally, that was the year of the global financial crisis, when the paramountcy of the West came under a shadow.
We can go far back in time. Sometimes there is a context or a special set of circumstances that justified things that now appear ill advised. As a practical matter, one would day that a government which comes to power for a period of five years should go no further back in time than a couple of years, and then get down to doing seriously good stuff. Else, what starts as, You gave them sixty years, give us sixty months, slowly morphs into, How can we clean up in sixty months the mess that was created over sixty years. Guillotine the past, focus on the present, create a better future.
This is a good example of an article whose title has no connection to the contents. Maybe the editor wants to test how many commentators have bothered to read it. Seems like most haven’t.
My friend RR chides me for this, but must confess I did not read one word of the column …
Very soon this guy will join BJP and get a good position for this article….
Rajiv Gandhi died nearly 30 years ago. If he had irredeemably sealed India’s economic fate, then why did AB Vajpeyi fight an election? Why did Narendra Modi fight two elections? Did these people think they were going out on a picnic? Propensity of the BJP leaders and sympathizers like AK Bhattacharya to pass the blame on others, dead or alive, is phenomenal.
In 30 years from 1978, China hosted the Beijing Olympics. A coming out party, which told the world the dragon was a force to be reckoned with. Coincidentally, that was the year of the global financial crisis, when the paramountcy of the West came under a shadow.
We can go far back in time. Sometimes there is a context or a special set of circumstances that justified things that now appear ill advised. As a practical matter, one would day that a government which comes to power for a period of five years should go no further back in time than a couple of years, and then get down to doing seriously good stuff. Else, what starts as, You gave them sixty years, give us sixty months, slowly morphs into, How can we clean up in sixty months the mess that was created over sixty years. Guillotine the past, focus on the present, create a better future.