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DEFINE COMMUNAL
by Pantul Raghuvir Kothari on Dec 23, 2007 05:49 PM   Permalink

BJP GOES AROUND PLAYING MAJORITY POLITICS. CONGRESS HAS PLAYED HIGH LEVEL MINORITY RELIGION OR CASTE BASED POLITICS SINCE INDEPENDENCE. ALL THE TERMS LIKE KHAM (KSHATRIYA, HARIJAN, ADIVASI AND MUSLIM) FOR GETTING VOTES WERE COINED BY THEM FIRST. THE COMMUNISITS PLAY OPPORTUNIST POLITICS- WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN NANDIGRAM IS RIGHT. THEIR CM AT BENGAL ALLOWS SEZS DEVELOPMENT ETC - IT IS FINE- BUT WILL NOT ALLOW NATION TO DO SO. THE WORLD OF COMMUNISTS HAVE CHANGED BUT OUR TWO BIT COMMUNISTS STICK WHERE THEY ARE. SO WHO THE HELL IS SECULAR? MINORITY APPEASEMENT? MAJORITY APPEASEMENT? OPPURTUNIST APPEASEMENT? ITS ALL THE SAME. ALL MARKET DIVISION AND SEGMENTATION FOR VOTES. IS MINORITY APPEASEMENT SECULARISM? IS MAJORITY COUNTER ATTACK THE ANSWER? NOTHING. ITS GOING NO WHERE. SO WHEN ANY POLITICIAN TALKS OF SOCIALISM, SECULARISM ETC - TAKE THEIR HAPPINESS IF U CAN. ITS SAD. BUT TRUE. WE ARE A NATION IN A REAL POLITICAL MESS WITHOUT ANY OPTION AT ALL. UNLESS OFCOURSE THE SO CALLED EDUCATED AND ENLIGHTENED SECTIONS OF THE SOCIETY BECOME MORE REACTIVE AND ACTIVE IN SOCIETY OR POLITICS. RATHER THEN BEING JUST ARM CHAIR CRITICS, DESPONDENTS -WHATEVER THAT MEANS
AND OFCOURSE THE MEDIA - THE NEW AGE GODS - WHO SIT AND PROCLAIM AND PASS JUDGEMENTS AND MAKE AN FOOL OF THEMSELVES AND OFCOURSE SEVERAL OF US TOO.

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