This editorial (via India Uncut) from The Telegraph. On how the recent assessment of the UPA's one year by the BJP focuses more on personalities than policies.
I have always felt we in our country have far from enough discussion of actual policies. We're content to discuss individual or group of politicians and their doings and their characters. For example, what discussion has happened in the public domain about, say, any of the recent Bills passed? Has any TV channel had any discussion of any of the Bills? Some newspapers do carry analyses sometimes but that is all.
I have closely watched a favourite reform of the current US presiden, pushed by the powerful investment banking lobby, being stalled right in its tracks. The people got their information through various channels - TV, newspaper, blogs, radio - and they didn't like what they heard. The opinion polls said so. The people also put pressure on their representatives who were then forced to take sides. The President himself had to go on a 60-day tour to sell his idea. But so far, no joy to him. But here we are so focussed on politicians that I think we tend not to know what they are doing by way of actual governance itself. For example, the Pension Reform Bill is apparently all set to sink money in the stock market (of course, that is just the little I've been able to gather) but what do we actually know about it?
I have always felt we in our country have far from enough discussion of actual policies. We're content to discuss individual or group of politicians and their doings and their characters. For example, what discussion has happened in the public domain about, say, any of the recent Bills passed? Has any TV channel had any discussion of any of the Bills? Some newspapers do carry analyses sometimes but that is all.
I have closely watched a favourite reform of the current US presiden, pushed by the powerful investment banking lobby, being stalled right in its tracks. The people got their information through various channels - TV, newspaper, blogs, radio - and they didn't like what they heard. The opinion polls said so. The people also put pressure on their representatives who were then forced to take sides. The President himself had to go on a 60-day tour to sell his idea. But so far, no joy to him. But here we are so focussed on politicians that I think we tend not to know what they are doing by way of actual governance itself. For example, the Pension Reform Bill is apparently all set to sink money in the stock market (of course, that is just the little I've been able to gather) but what do we actually know about it?
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