The Past and Future of Indian Election...a continuation....

And then from 1952 , congress has been in full power...it took 20 years for socialist, right-wing and regional groups to disturb congress complacence. It was in 1967, at the time of Indira Gandhi, that there was the fragments standing up to the congress monolith.

There were various other parties creeping up..and the decentralisation trend deepened through the 1970s and 1980s. By the end of the later decade, it had decisively transformed the nature of national politics itself. Thus, between 1989 and 2009, India had nine governments, headed by seven different primeministers. None of them commanded a majority in the Parliment.

'Generations of patient work had gone into making the congress the 'Noah's Ark of Nationalism'. It was a heroic and flawed project. It was the failure of the congress that proved a catalyst for Indias Kaleidoscopic diversity to from political patterns.

Is it too much wishful thinking to seek a congress free of the burden of dynasty and a BJP that gives up hate-mongering? A secular middle class that is putting caste behind is eager to see parties focus on rational policymaking...Can there ever be an united and reform-oriented Left? Will there ever be a singl strong and really good party, that represents the pepople? True such a party will lose now, but could make a difference a decade on...

Dont know why, anybody born, in the Nehru turned Gandhi family is a hit, but none from the actual Gandhi family other than the Mahatma is!! Now Varun has become super hit, poor boy he has been trapped by the BJP....

To some, Election 2009 is nothing but a tepid semifinal-before Rahul and Modi are pitted against each other in 2014. Hopefully it would not be too soon, a family feud, between Rahul and Varun....

There's a somewhat sinister line from one of the Godfather moves which went like this: 'Real power cant be given. It mush be taken.' ....Will some one???

Its only natural corporate chiefs have a voice on what should happen in India, and so did Narayana Murthy..

1. To bring about inclusive growth, we have to conduct pilot experiments for 2-3 years in small place in a state, correct errors, and adopt it for the entire country....Like our simulation tests, which gives nightmare, but is good by itself...

2. If rural India is shining, rural voters will be happy over what has happened over the last five years and will hopefully vote for the incumbent governments...Lets see..how well Rahul can handle the upliftment of the rural area...

3.Young should take greater responsibility....And the eleders should give them place and opportunities...to whom the young could and should go for wisdom and advice, like the grandparents at home.....(But first the young should learn to repect their grandparents, and know that they have not bloomed from nowhere)

4.Dont only bother about the attitude of elitism. The elite are not concerned about poor people, but about urban areas, circle of power....

Families, and business people, paint on a small, simple canvas. Running a government, is like painiting complex patterns on large canvases. However, there are certain principles that hold good in both cases. Those principles are the ones that need to be transplanted form one domain to the other. Younger people will have to exercise their independent judgement based on the merits of the cases....