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The Re, Re, Re … Launch of Rahul Gandhi

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."                                                                                -   John Quincy Adams In America, it is said that either you are a Republican or a democrat. The ascendance of BJP post 2014 has change the test pattern of politics in India. People are now fast attaching themselves on more stringent political lines then on issues. This trend has been again tested and confirmed in the election year of 2019 where convincing win of BJP is directly attributed to the cultural bigger than life persona of Narendra Modi. Still among this clutter of changing ideology, priorities and perceptions – the oldest political party of the country is busy in its own priorities – the top most of the same is surely the elegant plan to launch …sorry…relaunch…sorry sorry…re re re launch its leader Rahul Gandhi. As per various media reports, Rahul Gandhi is all set for image makeove

The Many Faces of Dissent - A Counter view to Popular Political Narration

  Indian polity is a cocktail of myriad layers of individualistic aspirations competing with the advent need to challenge the preconceived notions of the society together to emerge as a strong substitute for the brand recall. In all this, a strong condiment is added on time to time basis when personal interpretations and not personal experience forms the part in general declarations of advent of particular event in the nation as the whole. The latest in the list is the letter and counter letter from intellectuals, self-declared intellectuals, retired, semi-retired and professionals. The idea of 1 st  letter by 49 prominent scientists is very clear – listen to us as we are intellectuals and understand what is happening in the society. The second letter of 62 prominent faces is more direct – it is directed not towards idea or the incident but towards the 1 st  letter ascribing proper motives in the same. So the net result – an indirect bickering broke out between the two teams on