Life....

As you grow old there are different phases you pass through. A couple of years ago it was all good news with lots of friends getting married. However, the last year and a half has been different. There are still good news about weddings, engagements, jobs etc. But there has been a new dimension of constant news of deaths of people I have known. It kinds of scares you and at the same time reminds how fickle once's life is. Enjoy it while you can!

A fable

by David Brooks on how liberalism might be at a loss

Listen to this comeback by Manoj Tiwary

during his India A match from the link here by jrod. Please be ready for A rated language!

An interesting

article on the course of liberalism here by Ross Douthat in the New York Times. I do not entirely agree with his views but it does provide an interesting take on the criticism of Barack Obama by liberals like Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart.

BJP top brass meet today to discuss Bihar row- Hindustan Times

Does n't BJP have any political acumen. How do they expect to make any progress if they cannot maintain their alliances. See the Bihar row. It is very immature of a national party to lose alliance partners on issues that seem trivial and could have been managed. The Congress on the other hand is working hard to please its allies at the cost of progress. What an awesome state of affairs for India. Hmmm!

Want to make a change in India?

May be its time we follow the lead of the people discussed in this Amit Varma post

Some excerpts

Raj uses the term ‘colour pictures’ as a metaphor and a proxy: what he actually showed these men in power was “a vision for a better future”. He made it compelling and tangible, with no vague head-in-the-clouds talk about grand ideas. These examples are not examples of liberal ideas per se, but this is exactly the approach that classical liberals in India should take: Eschew the grand talk, get down to brass tacks, bring out the colour pictures.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta has a nice

piece on the problematic governance of Congress here!
An excerpt

The Congress will need to ask sooner or later: how long can this supposed division of political responsibility and responsibility for government continue? At the moment it is producing a situation where both head of party and head of government emerge only very episodically to perform any leadership function. And if at the very top there is so little decisiveness, you can only imagine what signal this sends to the rest of the system: that individual responsibility can be evaded by lobbing the ball in the court of an EGOM.