Today I heard an Indian explaining to some French what Baba Ramdev is doing. About black money etc.
A few days back I heard another Indian explaining to some Americans about Montek Singh-Manmohan Singh liberalizations and how they saved India
I told a Romanian girl that I like politics and she told me she knows another Indian and he loves politics too and guess all people from our country like politics.
In Zurich I met an Ukranian girl and the above said thing happened again.
Indian students abroad are suddenly so political ?
We eat dinner together sometimes, and the topic invariably leads to politics - about Modi, about Budhadeb, about the need for BJP, about Quran, etc etc.
Why the Indian academic student outside suddenly so interested in discussing politics?
Anyway, their politics is quite homogenous. Nobody is well read, no one reads even. Nobody thinks Mayawati/Lalu/Mulayam/VP Singh/CPM has done anything good. Modi/Nitish Kumar is pro-development. Gender/caste/class etc etc? Dont think its much of a problem, but Arun Shourie/Jaitely/Tharoor/Jairam Ramesh have good personality.
Politics discussion like sports discussion, almost.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
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