Monday, August 27, 2012

Behold the ultimate sacrifice

Pawar’s request for being relieved of his post is an irresponsible move

Democratic governments are supposed to be of, by and for the people. But the way some politicians in power in our great country end up, we may only want to believe the ‘by’ part with reasonable degree of certainty. When they leave, the only thing that the Indian electorate perhaps misses is some more well deserved moments of infotainment!

No prizes for guessing the most famous case in recent times — Shashi Tharoor of course! The edgy Congress tolerated his criticism of Nehruvian foreign policy, which he described as “more like moralistic running commentary”.