Monday, August 24, 1998
Subversion from within
Life under the BJP-led coalition gets curiouser and curiouser. Various leaders keep coming up with suggestions on changing the nature of the Indian state, establishing a presidential form of government, abolishing statutory reservations for SCs and STs, even altering the basic structure of the Constitution.
Left out by history
See, what has really happened? The tears of the golden jubilee celebrations of Nagasaki have not even dried on third-world cheeks. And the children of Baghdad have not yet got their third meal or vitamin C tablets, despite good brother Saddam's best humanitarian efforts. Not to speak of the proletarian struggle of the beloved comrades of Havana and Pyongyang.
The real victim is civil society
The political exasperation of the Bombay Muslims after the riots of December 1992-January 1993 was most evident when they sought a rapprochement with the Shiv Sena in the run-up to the 1995 Assembly elections. This suicidal act followed the consensus in the community that an open enemy was preferable to a wolf in sheep's clothing -- the Congress. The Muslim support led to the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance's victory in the elections.
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