Arjun Singh and the Quota Conundrum

Well it seems that age got better of Arjun Singh and he has become insane (not that he had any sense anyway). Not that he wants to be another VP Singh but he must have been feeling sidelined on getting a trivial ministry and his falling support in the high command. On his last birth day Sonia Gandhi virtually advised him to leave politics and go hiding when she said that "X" years is too long a time in politics and people achieve whatever they want to do till then.
That probably rang alarms in Arjun's head. His feet in the coffin he just tried to become a cynosure by doing something which will irritate his party member and if he does not become famous he will at least become infamous. I doubt any one in the Congress would have liked this Quota juggernaut the way it has shaped. Students across the country are facing merciless policemen and their lathis. It seems that Mr Arjun Singh himself might not have thought that things will go such a long and disgusting way. He just wanted some quick publicity and a reckoning at the dead end of his career so that when he dies there is someone to remember him.
But now the coins have fallen on the wrong place. His head is on the burner and these protests have taken a Frankenstein form which will be very difficult to contain.

India mirroring the USA ??

The recent gruesome killing of Indian engineer Suryanarayana by the Taliban throws a malicious light on peripherals which have never been discussed. More and more I am seeing India having the same strenuous relations with her neighbour like the USA has across the world. The Indo US nuclear deal was a nail in the incubating coffin as the Islamist world derogated India from a "neutral" to a USA inclined country.

Well this does not mean that we pursue our foreign polices keeping in mind these mindless Islamist states but then we cannot deny that the Iran stubbornness has somewhere a link towards the Indo US nuclear deal. Agreed that India has a better nuclear track record unlike countries like Pakistan but then just because Iran has a hardliner at the helm does not mean they are maniacs. For the US it was a US puppy till the Shah was ruling and as soon as Ayotollah Khomenei came the country suddenly became anti US !! The flawed policies of USA towards many of these countries like Iran Iraq Palestine etc. have made the world an unsafe place. The whole world is paying dear for the ridiculous US foreign policies.

These are the people who made Taliban who is now out to destroy its master. These are the people who tried to bully around the whole Latin America and now we see a definite anti US Governments in almost all the major countries. Similarly the Indian subcontinent is heading towards the anti India direction. We have strained relation with Pakistan, Bangladesh Srilanka and Nepal. We are accused of hegemony by these nations. Our wish wash reactions on Nepal monarchy have alienated us further from the common people there.