For a country that takes everything religiously - from cricket to movies to whatsapp forwards, I would be no exception when I say a movie's after effects mull in my head for almost a week. And that would be stronger if I watched a movie just yesterday that pertains indirectly to politics and my state is due for elections in a month.
Politics has always been a subject of intrigue and interest for me, at least my state politics. I love eavesdropping on every discussion around me that involves politics and mainly I am eavesdropping on discussions between a group of men during my bus travels or around my farm or in my village.
Oh, we Indians love our politics, don't we!!??
While keeping this as the background, I watched a Kannada movie that portrayed how youngsters, especially young men, with a little crowd following in their local areas, are puppeteered by political big goons with power in their hands. These young local leaders have a considerable crowd following in their villages/towns and over run by passion and zeal sometimes lose out on thinking rationally or logically. When emotions run amok, our politicians beat the iron rod and bend them for their personal benefits without even considering the larger good.
These thoughts were echoing in my head the whole of today when I came across this news article of how our state politicians are using one sect of people, unluckily the one I was born into, to lessen the vote base of the opposite party. Their strategic move of removing this sect from Hinduism and giving a minority tag line worked wonders and gathered certain big sect leaders support for the party. Nonetheless the opposite party projected their main candidate from this sect as well, were now in quicksand having lost some guaranteed support to the strategic move of the ruling party.
But in all these strategies and counter strategies who exactly is gaining and losing!!?? The general public is certainly losing. A sect that was founded by a person who wanted to wipe away the caste system and emphasise that God is on our body always and our work and character determines if He is pleased or not. Such a sect is now divided on lines of minority or not!!
The anger in me is seething on how utter scapegoats we tend to be and by whom - most of our leaders would not have studied even half of the educational degrees our State majority population has and they end up making fools of us.
For all those fellow Kannadigas who are going to vote next month, its my sincere request to you all that at least this time let us be wise and not select a fool for our leader based on something as regardless sect and caste!!
Politics has always been a subject of intrigue and interest for me, at least my state politics. I love eavesdropping on every discussion around me that involves politics and mainly I am eavesdropping on discussions between a group of men during my bus travels or around my farm or in my village.
Oh, we Indians love our politics, don't we!!??
While keeping this as the background, I watched a Kannada movie that portrayed how youngsters, especially young men, with a little crowd following in their local areas, are puppeteered by political big goons with power in their hands. These young local leaders have a considerable crowd following in their villages/towns and over run by passion and zeal sometimes lose out on thinking rationally or logically. When emotions run amok, our politicians beat the iron rod and bend them for their personal benefits without even considering the larger good.
These thoughts were echoing in my head the whole of today when I came across this news article of how our state politicians are using one sect of people, unluckily the one I was born into, to lessen the vote base of the opposite party. Their strategic move of removing this sect from Hinduism and giving a minority tag line worked wonders and gathered certain big sect leaders support for the party. Nonetheless the opposite party projected their main candidate from this sect as well, were now in quicksand having lost some guaranteed support to the strategic move of the ruling party.
But in all these strategies and counter strategies who exactly is gaining and losing!!?? The general public is certainly losing. A sect that was founded by a person who wanted to wipe away the caste system and emphasise that God is on our body always and our work and character determines if He is pleased or not. Such a sect is now divided on lines of minority or not!!
The anger in me is seething on how utter scapegoats we tend to be and by whom - most of our leaders would not have studied even half of the educational degrees our State majority population has and they end up making fools of us.
For all those fellow Kannadigas who are going to vote next month, its my sincere request to you all that at least this time let us be wise and not select a fool for our leader based on something as regardless sect and caste!!
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