Meira Kumar

The speaker s role has been performed with responsibility and dignity by the speaker of the fifteenth lok sabha.
the earlier speakers did not get the chance to be seen live on television.i remember p a sangma,shivraj patil and gmc balayogi.
somnath chatterjee gave impetus to the birth of the lok sabha channel,his experience was always evident when he handled the various demands of the members.he was always encouraging the younger members and ministers with words of appreciation.
meira kumar came across as a person who was not expected to don the mantle easily as she had the image of a very formal and almost shy person.
but,now she has also used her experience and has performed her role with elegance.it is a unique and a very powerful presence to have a woman speaker.
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the last day of the winter session again witnessed the enactment of undignified and unparallelled noisy clamouring.this again reveals the lack of an awareness of the importance of being a member of parliament and all the avenues to raise every matter.there is a unbecoming resort to raising the noise levels to gain a mention in the electronic media.
the height of this type of unstatesmanly and street type ruckus was recorded by the bharatiya janata party whose leader has very kindly stepped out of the scene and the long charade of possessing substance.he could never rise to the occasion and the episode during the home ministers speech on the liberhan report was the last and final act of the inglorious helmsmanship of the opposition.
but,he has always placed himself in a position where he gets the benefit of the doubt and earns the respect of the senior parliamentarian that he is.for all of his shortcomings,he was someone who was always at hand to provide the opposition.he never tried to raise himself to establish standards and leaves behind not one name in his party who can be called an energetic and disciplined parliamentarian.
at the end of the day,there will be a gaping vacuum in the bjp benches with the likes of ananth kumar and shahnawaz hussain probably the ones on the front row with sushma swaraj.
the communist members who have a very strong and experienced profile will probably become more active and show the way to the untrained bjp members.

enlightenment

in the old days,a person might go through life with all its experiences or might withdraw from society and would gain the wisdom that could be enlightenment.he would then give his advice and help those who seek him out for guidance.
in todays world,there are either the ones who sell their advice after having reached the point of enlightenment or the ones who pick up a gun and try to get everyone to share their enlightenment by forcing them toward the right route.there are those who are willing to buy the received wisdom as there are those who believe that others can think for them on their behalf.the jihadis who believe that the rest have to be herded into what they only have grasped are the stand outs.they want to force everyone into their level of enlightenment.maybe,they are having doubts about their own enlightenment and want the brute numbers to augment their enlightenment.the indian varieties who sell wisdom are even more arrogant when one looks at it closely.they claim to possess something for everyone and are steering everyone towards their vision.
of course,there are the real people doing the real work of providing people with an anchor and are a guiding light.
there are various levels of disonesty out there in the world being practiced by the ones who use religion for the easiest vocation,sorting out the problems of people.

states re organisation

as the indian people are going through the various demands for statehood,it will also provide them with an opportunity to look at the events in sri lanka where some of us thought that the sri lankan army was justified in crushing the revolution there.
all sorts of arguments are being bandied about here for and against the formation of states and our government has also stated that it is having an open mind.
in the case of tamil eelam,when there is only one possibility and that is that of a separate country,anyone arguing for the military defeat of the eelam army should have also proposed the solution of a changed framework.
while the eelam army was performing its responsibilities in fighting against invasion,all of us have failed in not grasping the fundamentals of arguing for the change in framework and the accomodation of the justice of the aspirations and just focussing on the war.
we were guilty of going in there and trying to stifle the aspirations there;it was only natural that they reacted like they did,targeting our prime minister.rajiv gandhi was young and in a hurry and those were different times.the solution that he ensured is still the point from which things are being taken forward but there were voices among the eelam tamils who were not ready to accept anything short of nationality and who were wholly justified in their dream.
that resulted in the tragedy of us losing our prime minister and all the possibilities of a mature and strong leadership.
people like evks elangovan who are just not able to grasp the subtleness required are barging ahead like a bull in a china shop.
it looks like divine justice that we are now engaged in this state reorganisation imbroglio after not having spared the effort and the energy to ensure the right framework in sri lanka when the war was ongoing.we left it all to the vagaries of democracy and now we have fonseka spilling the beans.
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whatever might have been feared from the dawn of eelam is anyway playing itself out now.
as we take stock and restate the fundamentals,it is up to us to make the forceful statement of the ideal solution in the island and not just reduce it into a bureaucratic exercise.let there not be any more cruel joke and spectacle of some benign observance and exposition of the democratic sideshow in sri lanka.no more acting out of the statesmanly charade.

balkanization

pranab mukherjee made reference to the term when the nda undertook the splitting up of the northern states in an effort to somehow find a standing in the history of democratic india.the nuclear tests were also in the same vein.
it is the misfortune of our country that we had such miserable and undeserving people as the people in the bjp in our democratic life.
if it was a honest party and if it was involved in making a honest contribution,it would have after having lost the elections made the statement that it was honoured to have manned the helm and would strive to getting another chance where it would continue to grow and do the best.
instead,the puffed bigots keeled over.
while in power,they undertook the creation of chattisgarh,jharkand and uttaranchal.
there was also the calculation of having chief ministers.
dr ramadoss of the pmk after having reached his saturation point now would like to create his sphere where his influence will be pleasingly powerful and his writ will run.
the people are taken for rides by our dishonest and stunted politicians.
they are able to create their core vote bank and are able to carry weight but after a point,it gets boring and the cadres start migrating and that is when frustration sets in.
a honest effort to carry out good work will not get stuck for want of work.
even if it does,it is upto the creativity of the politician to fashion issues and strategies which have a possibility of rousing the people.

masterstroke

the announcement of the initiation of the process of formation of telengana state has thrown every one concerned into a tizzy.
all are going back and forth and the blackmail element has been taken out;kcr is back in the real world,away from the win win dramatic world.no martyrdom,just plain talk it out.
you asked for it without any real idea about the reactions of the rest,now take it and handle it.
where are all the students now,will they go out and fight?
none will enact such dramas anymore anywhere.

anything is possible

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who is reporting any of this?
the lankans are a victim of their success.
a grim fear is what is taking root.

impasse before dialogue

the possibilities of dialogue are not explored before the attractions of violence take over.the pakistani taliban have not tried to reach an agreement with the democratic setup but have instead set out to destabilise the setup.
the maoists in our midst also do not want to have a reasonable dialogue and continue to hold out.
in iraq too,there have been five bomb blasts today inspite of a dialogue taking place through the political process.
when an issue is raised by a group,it is the responsibility of the people in government to listen to every grievance and resolve it satisfactorily or at least explain sincerely and convincingly.
in the case of eelam,the gun was resorted to after two decades of attempts at regaining the say of the tamils failed.
in pakistan,have the taliban tried to take their grievances to the government?
there cannot be any issue that can be talked out with each side trying to understand the viewpoint of the other.