World-Me-My viewpoint

One more stage in General elections in India got completed with two to go. Indian Election Commission should be applauded for its efforts in conducting the elections in a very peaceful manner so far. Another great feature of this election is uniformly higher voting percentage compared to the earlier elections due to the efforts of Election Commission. Coming back to the politicians, several of them displayed either foot in the mouth disease or arrogance over the last one week. There is the case of a politician from Congress who tendered an unconditional apology to a politician of BJP who has put on a defamation case. There is another politician from Telangana who sent notices to actor turned politician (?) Pawan Kalyan for accusing him of having business relationship with another politician from Andhra. Then there is the case of Mr Chiranjeevi of Congress (brother of Pawan Kalyan but both are in different camps now) who tried to barge into polling booth ahead of the people wai...

Opinion Polls Latest opinion poll by NDTV shows BJP and its allies is expected to get around 275 with the ruling Congress led front getting around 111 and rest by all the other parties together. This appears to be a far cry from the initial euphoria when Modi came into picture as BJP's prime ministerial candidate. The expectations were that BJP on its own will get the simple majority. Is there some weakening in the BJP's strength over the period? May be I am stretching my imagination too far, but I feel the final tally could be around 250 for BJP, 130-140 for Congress for the rest. If BJP and its current allies together get only this kind of a tally they will be in for a trouble in the long run as they may have to depend on one of the three ladies viz., Didi (Mamata Banerjee), Amma (Jayalalitha) or Mayavathi (behenji). If this happens we can again see the same state of policy inaction in future also. Alliances & Campaigning All the pre-poll alliances are set now ...

Indian Cricket Well according to me this is not even a great subject to write about as it is following and churned on all formats of the media and literally 95% people in India follow the same. I used to be one of the 95% earlier (prior to the first scam where Azharuddin & Co were suspended). I lost my interest after the successive scandals. I remember President of BCCI was asked to step down last year itself at the time of controversy regarding the spot fixing (or whatever name it was called) but he came back through back door once again. Now the highest court in India has ordered him to step down and asked Mr Sunil Gavaskar to takeover as a President in the interim along with Mr Shivlal Yadav as the second president. With due respects to the honourable court and the justices who delivered the judgement, the first part of the judgement is ok as the one being ordered to step down is perceived to be the corrupting influence. My grouse is only with the second part, why Mr Gav...