Cricket Diplomacy or Cheaters' Diplomacy?
You pick any Indian news paper today, you see flashy headlines - Manmohan Singh and Musharraf going to watch the cricket match together. Man! A damn important news thats going to change the life of 1.5 billion people in both the countries. yes I accept that a prime minister's life itself is a news. And as such Musharraf with Indian PM is a news. But the whole mushy smell that surrounds this much hyped cricket viewing Confidence Building Measure itself is a big gimmick thats spun around the Indian public. Com'mon who are they trying to cheat here and what are they trying to convey. The absolute sluggishness in terms of decision making in regard to this so called kashmir issue exists among the politicians of both sides for more than decades now. And a army general turned president -- I bet is no exception from that. Yes, even in US the president goes for Base ball and Football kick off. But I dont think George Bush will go and sit with Kim Jong II for a soccer game where he will negotiate Korea to come to an agreement regarding NPT. This piece of diplomacy is absolute shit. And across borders, the Politician turned Army Chief is worse than common politician. Atleast Indian politicians will sing different tunes once in 5 years, but that fella beats rahman in composing new tunes everyday. Suddenly he talks off brotherhood and one-ness and suddenly he "warns" India of dire consequences.
Man! with a confused PM, (who is literally confused in regard to who the prime minister is) and a Foreign born Indian mathaji...who is hell bent on rewriting the constitution, who acts as if she is a conquerer, enlisting the number of states to conquer thru' subversive and unholy methods, we Indians are talking about democracy and its advantages to other countries. This is one big joke of this century. Some years back, we atleast had a prime minister even tho' very old often reminded our fella Indians that we have a back bone of our own. Lets forget secularism, fundmentalism, communism,or that communalism crap. To be straight all are just different types of trump cards used by the politicians at various situations and various stages. The events that were happening in Jharkhand (the governor fiasco) or in Bihar (Congress wants a government of its own or it does not want a government at all..this is what we call true governance that is always for the people), it shows clearly that these topi wala politicans are treating the common man like stooges and dumb ass.
In this condition, the media should act in a more responsible way, OK fine, it published the news about Musharraf and Manmohan Singh's cricket trip, but at the same time these newspapers in that same article can question the veracity of the claims regarding their diplomacy. The media should make them feel responsible for what they are doing. The questions should be straight enough that, next time they wont make such cheap attempts to win people's hearts in terms of diplomatic relationship improvement.
Posted at 04:27 am by Clueless
