Maverick

I realise that in the recent past, I had gone overboard in my praise of the Indian GOP (Grand Old Party i.e. Congress). As if to blunt it, they have done something which would force any rational person to rethink his support. With the proposal to get the IITs and IIMs have additional 27% quotas, they have set the clock back. And the timing of the declaration is suspect, coming just when five state assemblies are going to elect new governments. But the jury is still out whether Mandal - II is going to fetch any dividends for its proponents as Mandal - I did.

Coming to the BJP, L. K. Advani is on a Bharat Suraksha Yatra (if anybody really cares about it). It was in Pune yesterday(again, if it bothers you). The BJP has clearly run out of ideas and is yet to forget its debacle in the 2004 general elections.

TCA Srinivas Raghavan has written a nice article in Business Standard where he argues that the Indian political parties have one thing in common - contempt for people, and that they are refusing to change with time.