POLITICAL POPULISM;
AMBITION TO BE ANOTHER CHACHA !
Teachers day was virtually hijacked on the pattern of children day,but the resources utilized for live telecast,could be brought into service to improve infrastructure and attendance of schools, functioning under govt sector.May be,Hindi knowing students could make out some thing out of much publicized 'live communication' of honorable Prime Minister,but what about majority segment of all those students,for whom Hindi is just another version of Greek language ?
Modi’s link with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has guided his political philosophy. He has written admiringly of MS Golwalkar, the second sarsanghchalak of the RSS. Golwalkar’s ideas are problematic, to say the least: he speaks of denying citizenship to non-Hindus and expresses admiration at the way Nazi Germany purged its Jews, claiming that it was “a good lesson for Hindusthan to learn and profit by”. The intellectual core of the RSS is so far from current versions of modernity that they seem almost comic as well as medieval. Wisely, Modi does not speak publicly of matters like this, though he does not seem averse to foot soldiers such as Yogi Adityanath, Parveen Tagodia, Ashok Singhal or Giriraj Kishore and their nefarious divisive ideas. Accordingly,he has hardly contradicted or condemned their 'sermons'. .
Modi’s interaction with some of the nation’s children indicated that he wants to fashion himself as the new Nehru, but without building a concrete set of ideas that he can call his own – a “Modivian consensus”, so to speak – and thinking only of short-term political gains, he could end up being more like Indira or Rajiv: a powerful leader with hard political power but one who does little to change the intellectual paradigm of the nation in a meaningful and purposeful way .
AMBITION TO BE ANOTHER CHACHA !
Teachers day was virtually hijacked on the pattern of children day,but the resources utilized for live telecast,could be brought into service to improve infrastructure and attendance of schools, functioning under govt sector.May be,Hindi knowing students could make out some thing out of much publicized 'live communication' of honorable Prime Minister,but what about majority segment of all those students,for whom Hindi is just another version of Greek language ?
Modi’s link with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has guided his political philosophy. He has written admiringly of MS Golwalkar, the second sarsanghchalak of the RSS. Golwalkar’s ideas are problematic, to say the least: he speaks of denying citizenship to non-Hindus and expresses admiration at the way Nazi Germany purged its Jews, claiming that it was “a good lesson for Hindusthan to learn and profit by”. The intellectual core of the RSS is so far from current versions of modernity that they seem almost comic as well as medieval. Wisely, Modi does not speak publicly of matters like this, though he does not seem averse to foot soldiers such as Yogi Adityanath, Parveen Tagodia, Ashok Singhal or Giriraj Kishore and their nefarious divisive ideas. Accordingly,he has hardly contradicted or condemned their 'sermons'. .
Modi’s interaction with some of the nation’s children indicated that he wants to fashion himself as the new Nehru, but without building a concrete set of ideas that he can call his own – a “Modivian consensus”, so to speak – and thinking only of short-term political gains, he could end up being more like Indira or Rajiv: a powerful leader with hard political power but one who does little to change the intellectual paradigm of the nation in a meaningful and purposeful way .
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