Just Another Angle

With 404 legislative assembly seats, floating over a massive 202 million and above population, Uttar Pradesh's state legislative assembly elections are one massive carnival of Indian politics. Out of 545 'Lok-Sabha' (lower house) seats in Indian Parliament, U.P. calls for 80 of them, hence making it the center in the 'Ring of Indian Politics'. Current ruling party claimed massive 70+ seats out of 80 to clean sweep the floor of parliament. Here we will take a glimpse of the ring masters of this arena. 1. Akhilesh Yadav : The standing chief minister is one of the youngest chief ministers in India and hence subsequently gaining a trust of a lot of youths in the state. His infrastructural report card also has a few highlights like lucknow metro and Agra-Lucknow Expressway. Also there were free laptops and tablets distributed to students. Recent family debacle also helped Akhileh to wear an image of a revolutionary. Samajwadi Party also enjoys a very faithful suppo...

MEDIA IN CHECK Yesterday, while going through my twitter feed, I came across a wonderful tweet, “You will realize that our country is not that in dirt as projected by our profit oriented media. Take a break from it for a while and you will understand.” Now of course due to number of characters’ limitation on a tweet, the original used some abbreviations, but that is not a point. Point is that it reflected the true vibrancy of situation, which our so called media choose to monochrome in the color which is more profitable to them. India is a nation of 1.25 billion people. There exists always a fraction of population which are criminal minded, crooks, and of character that will put that of animals to shame. How big that portion is, what percentage is that out of the total pie, can be very well and effectively controlled by good and immersive governance, but cannot be eliminated at all. Coming back to where we started, If I ask a very simple question, that how far would the r...