Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Growing up in the 70s
बावरा मन देखने चला एक सपना,
बावरे से मन की देखो बावरी है बातें,
बावरीसी धडकने है, बावरी हैं सांसे,
बावरीसी करवटों से निन्दीया दुर भागे.
(For complete lyrics, click here.)
This is an excellent song from the recent off-beat film हजारों ख्वाइशें ऐसी. This film is the story of three young persons who are deeply affected by the political events which culminated in the emergency of 1975-77. It seems to be a very apt song to describe the mentality of youth at that time, when they had such dreams of bringing change to their country. I haven't yet seen the film though.
Talking about the emergency, I have read in 2/3 books, most recently in Shashi Tharoor's "Nehru: The Invention of India" that, people remember emergency as the only period when government offices functioned efficiently and corruption was almost nil. Yes, there were excesses no doubt, the press was muzzled, there were arbitrary detentions and killings, and ofcourse, compulsory sterilizations which had the North India in terror.
Cho Ramaswamy believes that this is the right time to impose emergency. See his interview on
Rediff. He however adds that neither the PM nor Sonia Gandhi are the right persons to lead such a dispensation.
बावरे से मन की देखो बावरी है बातें,
बावरीसी धडकने है, बावरी हैं सांसे,
बावरीसी करवटों से निन्दीया दुर भागे.
(For complete lyrics, click here.)
This is an excellent song from the recent off-beat film हजारों ख्वाइशें ऐसी. This film is the story of three young persons who are deeply affected by the political events which culminated in the emergency of 1975-77. It seems to be a very apt song to describe the mentality of youth at that time, when they had such dreams of bringing change to their country. I haven't yet seen the film though.
Talking about the emergency, I have read in 2/3 books, most recently in Shashi Tharoor's "Nehru: The Invention of India" that, people remember emergency as the only period when government offices functioned efficiently and corruption was almost nil. Yes, there were excesses no doubt, the press was muzzled, there were arbitrary detentions and killings, and ofcourse, compulsory sterilizations which had the North India in terror.
Cho Ramaswamy believes that this is the right time to impose emergency. See his interview on
Rediff. He however adds that neither the PM nor Sonia Gandhi are the right persons to lead such a dispensation.
// posted by aditya @ 10:06 AM 
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Thanks for the link. I read that interview.
I second his views. There has to be some coercion when you are governing a continent sized country where half of the population dont have access to clean water, two meals, so on and so forth.
And hence this is the time. Now or it may be too late.
The mention of Vajpeyee, Advani was also pleasing. :)
I second his views. There has to be some coercion when you are governing a continent sized country where half of the population dont have access to clean water, two meals, so on and so forth.
And hence this is the time. Now or it may be too late.
The mention of Vajpeyee, Advani was also pleasing. :)
I have long admired this man through his short interviews on the television, during elections etc. Having an emergency at this time may be a hard decision. Rather a tough leader who can take hard decisions and stand by them will also do.
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