This is a fantastic account of what’s happening around us in India and Francois did a great job as someone living in and loving India and also as an outsider giving us what we need to look at.
The current Indian society has more disruptive changes to handle than the country probably 25 years ago. We have adopted cultures, practices and technology so much that the benchmarks needed for measuring our social customs and morals are missing now. We are increasingly coming into survival mode. Our arguments more from the perspective of anything for survival rather than making sure that the society survives. Globalization has impacted our culture and moral standards.
The trust vote is a great example of disruptive nature of our lives around. Someone with over 50 years in public life, someone who acted as economic advisor to Indira Gandhi government way back and some one whom the world considers as the chief architect of India rising at least in the economic front – Dr.Singh had to go through the process which he would not have dreamt in his life. No remorse because what all the congress did is not illegal and we do not have a clear moral code to match these actions. Any argument about morals can be confronted with equally strong logic frustrating idealists like me.
The congress party has violated people’s mandate again and again and this one now for the trust vote is more glaring. Indian public voted for congress(may be UP voters to be more specific) may b
