Is it screaming at one another? Is it saying something but doing something else? Is it always disagreeing with someone? Is it whose planes fly over which country?
I have lots of questions here.
So I dug deeper. Only to realize,
not many know what politics actually is. They mistake it for cheating, telling
lies, corruption, and manipulation.
Well, here is my understanding
of politics.
I see scores of kids learning “taekwondo". How come this unknown sport overtakes Kung Fu and Karate? Especially when Karate and Kung Fu movies are just so popular across the country. Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan have a cult following in India. The first foreign film to become a silver jubilee hit (run for 25 weeks) in India was Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon. But one has not ever heard of Taekwondo.
Simple. They formed an association and produced paperwork and hobnobbed with the right crowd and got Taekwondo accepted as an Olympic sport. This one recognition moved it miles ahead of its competitors.
Then we have Kareena Kapoor. I may face resistance here. But bear with me. She is so ugly that leave aside the movie camera; she shouldn’t be in front of a still camera. Yet she has conquered mindshare of the Indian psyche. How. Well, it's politics blended with some good PR. It was ensured she was bombarded on us nonstop despite dozens of excruciatingly bad performances - not to mention zero oomph factor. In many big budgeted movies. Till the silly Indian public - who is supposed to sab jaanta hai - accepted her as a rare beauty and a sex symbol who lights up the screen with her dazzling performance. Saif never had any great taste women, so she hooking up with him is no endorsement of her nonexistent charm. So much like Bryce Dallas Howard.
But the most mind-boggling example of politics is - how did Kumaraswamy become the CM of Karnataka; when he got only 15% of the seats. No wonder Sid has a long horse face these days. Technically, he owe his post to no one but Rahul Gandhi. Not even the voters.
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