Saturday, December 3, 2011

The MAD DAM.!!!

Mullaperiyar dam, something the people of Kerala are MAD about and the people of Tamil Nadu don't give a DAMn about.! But beyond the humor, if there was any lies a matter of serious concern. When it comes to social issues like these the people are only as informed as the media wants them to be. In Kerala they are made to believe that there is only hope to cling to, and in Tamil Nadu the media claims that its only a well enacted drama scripted by the smartest political brains. I doubt if we will ever get to know which one is the truth.

If there really is an impending danger that is as monstrous as the media makes it appear, then there really is something for every Keralite to worry about. The God's own country has never been at the receiving end of nature's fury nor has it ever had to face a major crisis. It has been blessed by the most generous of Gods. And this has made its people laid back which is going to be the major handicap if a disaster strikes. They wouldn't know what to do or where to go. Really, every coin has two sides to it.

The basic human nature of being flawed takes the right to judge away from us all, especially when it comes to politicians. They are the way they are only because we allowed them to be, and partly because we wanted them to be this way. So many things are easier when the system is flexible. And if this issue really is just a made up one and its a media circus going on, there is something for the people of Kerala to cheer about. The politics doesn't lack the brain that we think it does. So many virtues go unnoticed only because there are bigger vices that over-shadow them. Yes, I always try to find the silver lining.!!


But why would a state pull out a trick like this in a country where the Judiciary claims that nobody can buy their way through it. The Supreme court's verdict will stay. As far as I can see it the only plausible answer is that in a Democracy like India although the claim is that the Judiciary is above its people the truth is just the other way around.

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