In Ancient Rome there was a god called Janus, who had two heads, one looking forward towards the future, and the other looking backward towards the past. The new Indian deity is similar with two heads, one looking forward in the name of VIKAAS , and the other looking backward towards restoring RAMRAJYA... During the last Lok Sabha elections, only the forward looking face was revealed, and the backward looking face was effectively veiled. The constant refrain of the great man in his all his speeches could be encapsulated in just one word : VIKAAS . Like children following the Pied Piper of Hamlin, our gullible youth, cutting through caste and community lines, en masse voted for him,.. The truth is now slowly dawning : in fact our new Janus never had two faces at all. There was only one real face, the one looking backward. The one looking forward was not a real face at all but only a mask, a pretence... So now that the forward looking mask has been stripped, and all that remains is the backward looking real face. The only thing that can be expected is more communal tension, communal riots and attacks on minorities. - kudos to Justice Katju on the insightful comparison to the grim realities unfolding in this country.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:14:02 +0000
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