tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663481787979786545.post8484736808796011547..comments2014-09-23T23:43:14.906+05:30Comments on Words from Solitude: Indian Democracy: beyond the trust voteshubhohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10661646608744489943noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663481787979786545.post-12961748696678306922008-07-26T01:39:00.000+05:302008-07-26T01:39:00.000+05:30Dear Mavin,The problem with our neo-liberalized In...Dear Mavin,<BR/>The problem with our neo-liberalized Indian middle class is that they get attached easily with anything that endorses their opportunism and therefore feels disturbed by people like Prakash Karat. I completely agree with your comment that we are living in a time where more emphasis is put on form than content. Who cares for content? Barring the Leftists, the whole debate on the shubhohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661646608744489943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663481787979786545.post-23809839079558954582008-07-25T20:46:00.000+05:302008-07-25T20:46:00.000+05:30Political machinations are part of the process. Th...Political machinations are part of the process. Things become dirty when stakes are high or the stakes are upped for ego reasons.<BR/><BR/>Stakes were indeed very high here. <BR/><BR/>Firstly, from the political angle, continued indecision was more harmful at the state and central elections round the corner. You had the Prime Minister who was shoved around as a nobody wanting an image makeover. Mavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11427701624966763777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663481787979786545.post-6677585759639322662008-07-25T20:23:00.000+05:302008-07-25T20:23:00.000+05:30As a reply to your second comment I can say that y...As a reply to your second comment I can say that you have rightly commented that the way Indian democracy is openly displaying its diseases must be a matter of great concern to all of us.<BR/><BR/>All of us honestly want to believe that the prime minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh is a 'clean' person. But the events that have unfolded in the past few days affirm something different to that shubhohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661646608744489943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663481787979786545.post-33410896450770458782008-07-25T19:15:00.000+05:302008-07-25T19:15:00.000+05:30Sorry vinod. I accidentally deleted it. Also I hav...Sorry vinod. I accidentally deleted it. Also I have not expected so quick a reply.I have posted the comment again.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for visiting 'solitude'.shubhohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661646608744489943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663481787979786545.post-24176800958346802442008-07-25T19:01:00.001+05:302008-07-25T19:01:00.001+05:30Where has you comment disappeared, the one to whic...Where has you comment disappeared, the one to which I replied a few minutes back?Vinod_Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14654167848186778789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663481787979786545.post-23592650295543059192008-07-25T19:01:00.000+05:302008-07-25T19:01:00.000+05:30Do not be prickly to the communists at least conce...Do not be prickly to the communists at least concerning the Speaker issue. After being expelled by the party, Mr. Somnath Chatterjee is receiving lot of sympathetic support from odd quarters and might have turned into a sort of a hero to the Indian middle-class by defying the party line. All the sympathies are but for the time being only. <BR/><BR/>Mr. Somnath Chatterjee has certainly establishedshubhohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661646608744489943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663481787979786545.post-61529263221211796892008-07-25T18:53:00.000+05:302008-07-25T18:53:00.000+05:30The status of an MP after he becomes the Speaker i...The status of an MP after he becomes the Speaker is slightly foggy, He is entitled to resign from his party once he gets that job or remain a party member. <BR/><BR/>What the CPM could easily have done is that they could have asked him to vote against the government if his vote was required to decide the motion. Now they are making it appear as if he is part of the UPA.<BR/><BR/>Whatever view we Vinod_Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14654167848186778789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5663481787979786545.post-35963065478662554802008-07-25T12:16:00.000+05:302008-07-25T12:16:00.000+05:30Your analysis is pretty logical, though I hold an ...Your analysis is pretty logical, though I hold an opposite view.<BR/><BR/>Manmohan Singh has, at long last, emerged as the decisive Prime Minister this countyr needs. I for one do not doubt his integrtiy at all. If anything, it is that which has got him this far, and will take take him further too. <BR/><BR/>As far as the commies are concerned, the less said the better. They are an anachronistic Vinod_Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14654167848186778789noreply@blogger.com