Friday, February 19, 2016

RESPONSIBLE CHOICES AND POLITICAL OUTCOMES

IN REFERENCE TO KEJRIWAL's ANNUAL REPORT CARD:

How does it make sense to subsidize already scarce resources like water? Isn't it more important to ensure that there is no wastage that results to shortfall and ensure accessibility? And if you do decide to subsidize electricity and water, why is that your *top achievement*?
 Subsidy is not charity, or a patronage to be given by a political leader or a party to the people. This kind of governance makes citizens passive; as if we have to be thankful for such interventions.
Also, odd-even plan- celebrate its success because it reduced pollution or reduced congestion? Because the former is worth celebrating; the latter just shows poor future infrastructure planning.

Man, but this year is making me question all my political voting choices.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

A THOUGHT BLURTED OUT.

So since i am a JNU student, a lot of my friends call me up to know what's really going on ,another person comes and asks me about how i feel about the 'JNU controversy' ;and instead of going into arguments and politics of it this time, i just blurt out the truth- "i am scared....and disillusioned"
10 second pause
caller- "scared...for your safety?"
me- "no..scared for my beliefs, my judgments, my grounding. I mean this is a government i never fully believed in but i still voted for, hoping to prove something wrong. Like i believed that the liberal democratic state of the country and our institutions are too strong for a mere government to really cause any real damage. It's not the 70's . We have a media that is supposed to be on people's side, atleast the side of an unbiased. But the more deeper the issue gets, the dirtier and more dangerous side of the power of the government and media is exposed.
Truthfully, if i have to measure how scared i am- i would say, i am just more, more...like my beliefs are not the same...more than when i had read Foucault for the first time. and man, did Foucault fuck my head. But this seems worse, because it's so real."