Moment of victory as moment of doubt SHIV VISVANATHAN

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Narendra Modi can no longer be validated by the weakness of the Congress. He has to be judged not on critique but on the constructive nature of what he offers


The victory of Mr. Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now more than a week old. The immediacy of victory often blinds us to bigger issues of policy and planning. Yes, history was created. What was historical was the end of the Congress as a major party. Acting as the vector of a new generation, Mr. Modi decimated the Congress. But, ironically, the moment of victory becomes the moment of doubt. As long as he was in the Opposition, Mr. Modi was relevant, topical in his attacks on the Congress and its continuing politics of entropy. Next to the Congress, Mr. Modi appeared energetic, decisive, alert and open to learning. As the Congress fades from the scene and Mr. Modi stands victorious, the scenario changes. Mr. Modi can no longer be validated by the weakness of the Congress. He has to be judged not on critique but on the constructive nature of what he offers. What does he offer which goes beyond the Congress as an imagination? At this stage, Mr. Modi is just another hypothesis India has wagered on.

The sins of the Congress can no longer exonerate them. As they step into the future, they have to realise that yesterday’s news is outdated history. It is the future that they have to respond to and the future can be more unforgiving than any Indian electorate.
Moment of victory as moment of doubt - The Hindu

 

[Vaagmi]

Dear prasadji,

I read the article and my thoughts:

Mr. Modi can no longer be validated by the weakness of the Congress. He has to be judged not on critique but on the constructive nature of what he offers

Without giving Modi a chance to offer what he has the author has prejudged him. That is his prejudice showing itself.

Mr. Modi is just another hypothesis India has wagered on.

That is being eloquently empty. Is not every election in a democracy an opportunity to wager? And when you wager you wager on imponderables and not on sure shots. That is the very nature of wagering. LOL.

Watching the rituals of Delhi one senses, first, signs of doubt, about the paucity of new ideas.

On the solemn occasion of oath taking there is no scope for even speaking about your ideas. What did the author expect? He expected Modi to do an one up on Sonia by inviting the Pope and getting a symbolic sepulture handed over to him. The problems with our intellectuals has always been emptiness.

Suddenly, one confronts the idea that it is not secrecy and discipline we are confronting but a scarcity of ideas; that beyond the end of the Nehruvian imagination, Mr. Modi has little to offer. The BJP becomes the Nehruvian double merely strengthening the Nehruvian indecision. In this scenario, Mr. Modi as the new Patel rules instead of an adolescent Nehru (Rahul Gandhi) but the categories are not different. They are the same idea now presented in a more Prussian, technocratic and efficient form. The irony comes home if we compare it to a wider frame of history.

Why should Modi disown Nehru or his dreams and good ideas? When you are so impatient with Modi you can never asses him properly. Give him a chance. After all he deserves it.

The foolishness of the Congress no longer adds value to the BJP.

Can the author for a moment not forget Congress and look at Modi for what he represents? BJP does not depend on congress for anything but people with blinkered vision can not see anything else other than congress - yes even in failures.

If one looks at it starkly, India stands between a desiccated left and an inflated right. Yet, one stands at a time when the left and the right as ideologies or problem-solving solutions are outdated. The nature of history has changed and Mr. Modi’s moves look outdated. Reports claim that he is business friendly; that he will provide a single window of decision-making. But what one needs to ask is this: what is the nature of responsibility, of ethics, of visions of the future, ideas of employment and sustainability that corporations like the Ambanis, the Tatas and the Adanis or the Aggarwals have provided? Corporate social responsibility (CSR) as hype does not even provide a fig leaf in the new crisis of sustainability. Let us be brutal. The new technocrats like Mr. Narayana Murthy and Mr. Nandan Nilekani cannot provide a single framework for the future. They have neither the power of philanthropy nor new ideas of social responsibility to bring to the scene. If the reader feels I am unfair, try naming one interesting theory of institution building or an idea of the city they have offered.

Congress's idea of Democratic Socialism refurbished repainted and sold in a new cellophane pack. If you are business friendly our leftist intellectual will immediately call you you are part of the inflated right. Naturally the Ambanis, Adanis, the oldest punching bag Tatas or aggarwals have naturally to come in in the discourse and receive a few punches as usual from our leftist intellectual professor. He wants to be moving with times and so has to give a left hook and right one to Narayana murthy and Nilekeni too. If the author so poorly informed of the philanthropy of the N.Murthy, Tatas or other rich business successes, it is not for me to list it here.

I read upto this para and became sick. Stopped reading further. I said "Cry the beloved Country" and closed the computer. The article was not worth reading any more.

 

[prasad1]

Sir,
Whenever a child leaves a home, my wife will say be careful? Should she say that is negative? Should she protest, because it assumes that the child is going to do some careless act? No.

Similarly a note of caution is not negative comment. It is challenge and warning. I do not think Mr.VISVANATHAN's article is negative. Let us say that he is not blinded by the aura of Modi's luminescence as others are.

 

[Vaagmi]

Sir,
Whenever a child leaves a home, my wife will say be careful? Should she say that is negative? Should she protest, because it assumes that the child is going to do some careless act? No.

Similarly a note of caution is not negative comment. It is challenge and warning. I do not think Mr.VISVANATHAN's article is negative. Let us say that he is not blinded by the aura of Modi's luminescence as others are.

No. Here the article does not match your story. The child is not yet out of the house. But you have already condemned it. You are cursing that it will meet with an accident of sorts and die. LOL.

 

[sarang]

Shiv viswanath is a high grade secularist and regular mud slinger in hindu and cnn-ndtv channels, only to bash modi and bjp. He and his jnu colleagues must be wondering about the future. If the u turn of the economist is a clue, many left leaners and wanton bashers will be in for surprise. He will have a space to bark.

 

[renuka]

Narendra Modi can no longer be validated by the weakness of the Congress. He has to be judged not on critique but on the constructive nature of what he offers


The victory of Mr. Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now more than a week old. The immediacy of victory often blinds us to bigger issues of policy and planning. Yes, history was created. What was historical was the end of the Congress as a major party. Acting as the vector of a new generation, Mr. Modi decimated the Congress. But, ironically, the moment of victory becomes the moment of doubt. As long as he was in the Opposition, Mr. Modi was relevant, topical in his attacks on the Congress and its continuing politics of entropy. Next to the Congress, Mr. Modi appeared energetic, decisive, alert and open to learning. As the Congress fades from the scene and Mr. Modi stands victorious, the scenario changes. Mr. Modi can no longer be validated by the weakness of the Congress. He has to be judged not on critique but on the constructive nature of what he offers. What does he offer which goes beyond the Congress as an imagination? At this stage, Mr. Modi is just another hypothesis India has wagered on.

The sins of the Congress can no longer exonerate them. As they step into the future, they have to realise that yesterday’s news is outdated history. It is the future that they have to respond to and the future can be more unforgiving than any Indian electorate.
Moment of victory as moment of doubt - The Hindu

When the dish had not been served yet how does a person know that it wont taste good?

A very biased article in my opinion.

Even if Shiv Viswa does not like Modi for whatever reason he should at least have some respect for the countries PM.

India should enforce an Internal Security Act for such articles!

 

[sarang]

No banning. Just cutting of money supply through NGOs is enough. These guys stand exposed and do not matter. In fact English media both TV and print have lost all credibility. People use regional and language media for right reporting.

When the dish had not been served yet how does a person know that it wont taste good?

A very biased article in my opinion.

Even if Shiv Viswa does not like Modi for whatever reason he should at least have some respect for the countries PM.

India should enforce an Internal Security Act for such articles!