My Take on today's Headlines
So now it is me having a go at the most sensational topic enrapturing India: the Lokpal Bill.
However, unlike others I am not going to indulge myself in the reasons why the Bill must be affected or what the Bill’s ideal clauses must read. I do not know about others but I can surely say that I have derived most interest in the implications this Bill has had, is having and will have on Indian politics.
Firstly, for the very first time since Pre-1947 the Congress is facing its biggest ever challenge – and this time it has come from a non-politically inclined mandate. A cause that is seemingly raised by and for the people, the Lokpal Bill, has succeeded in using the one trump card the Congress has thrived on for decades now and has used it against the mammoth – its Gandhi Image. Now that I say it, I find it ironical how the title ‘mammoth’ so aptly befits the Congress. For an animal of that size could only have been killed by using its weight against it. So it seems beautifully coinc...