As I got up lazily in the morning amidst the cool breeze after the midnight showers, I rushed to get through my daily chores to catch up with my occasionally punctual roomie for a nice comfortable ride to office! I usually prefer going on my own vehicle but I am not keeping well for last few days, so it would be just fine for a drive-by-myself maniac guy :)
My roomie is just a newly learned driver and he does it very well for his experience. He is aware of this fact and is not at all shy in basking into its glory. So as he zip-zaps through the horrible morning rushing traffic in Hyderabad, to my ease as we crossed Rajiv Gandhi circle at Somajiguda. Nothing great about it, we cross it daily !! But today I saw our former prime-minister's statue surrounded by many white khadi clad men and women. The brief sight was enough to remind me that tomorrow is the death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi. His assassination will remain a very sad event in the history of this country. I am not a great historian but I know that even if he was not a great leader unlike his mother, he was nonetheless the catalyst in introducing IT revolution to India.
But what amused me was the presence of all those guys around the statue early in the morning with all the arrangements to decorate things, and similarly many many more around the city and the country to mark the death anniversary of the deceased leader. Broadly speaking these things would normally be managed by the government establishments and the political parties with which these big names are associated. Obvious, isn't it? But digging further, I was very keen to know the economic, social or personal incentive which drive those individual persons in the assembled crowd to invest their time and energy so diligently in these and similar such activities on a regular basis. This is same as asking what drives a person into political establishments. Or to rephrase, what incentives are attached with this field and how beneficial they may be in the long run. It would require tremendous luck and substantial amount of magic in a personality to make big in the field of politics, hard-work nevertheless!
I find it hard to swallow that principles and ideologies would drive these young guys into political flux, not everyone for sure! Feels more like lust for power, influence, dirty money and getting away from law with ease might be the easy lolly-pops to draw the youth into politics. But it is Rajiv Gandhi's death anniversary tomorrow and it would be good to remain a little optimistic at this point of time for the youth in politics and the future of our nation !!
My roomie is just a newly learned driver and he does it very well for his experience. He is aware of this fact and is not at all shy in basking into its glory. So as he zip-zaps through the horrible morning rushing traffic in Hyderabad, to my ease as we crossed Rajiv Gandhi circle at Somajiguda. Nothing great about it, we cross it daily !! But today I saw our former prime-minister's statue surrounded by many white khadi clad men and women. The brief sight was enough to remind me that tomorrow is the death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi. His assassination will remain a very sad event in the history of this country. I am not a great historian but I know that even if he was not a great leader unlike his mother, he was nonetheless the catalyst in introducing IT revolution to India.
But what amused me was the presence of all those guys around the statue early in the morning with all the arrangements to decorate things, and similarly many many more around the city and the country to mark the death anniversary of the deceased leader. Broadly speaking these things would normally be managed by the government establishments and the political parties with which these big names are associated. Obvious, isn't it? But digging further, I was very keen to know the economic, social or personal incentive which drive those individual persons in the assembled crowd to invest their time and energy so diligently in these and similar such activities on a regular basis. This is same as asking what drives a person into political establishments. Or to rephrase, what incentives are attached with this field and how beneficial they may be in the long run. It would require tremendous luck and substantial amount of magic in a personality to make big in the field of politics, hard-work nevertheless!
I find it hard to swallow that principles and ideologies would drive these young guys into political flux, not everyone for sure! Feels more like lust for power, influence, dirty money and getting away from law with ease might be the easy lolly-pops to draw the youth into politics. But it is Rajiv Gandhi's death anniversary tomorrow and it would be good to remain a little optimistic at this point of time for the youth in politics and the future of our nation !!
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