Dipy's prognostication goes bust
Message 11327479
To: Nandu who wrote (7060) From: Dipy Wednesday, Sep 22 1999 1:06PM ET
Reply # of 9184
Dipy wrote:
How stable do you think the 24-party coalition is going to be? I give it no more than two years. By this time next month, cracks should have started showing. I can think of one thorny issue that will come to the fore right away -- about whether or not to retain George Fernandes as the Defense Minister.
Hello there Dipy : Prognosticator Debonair . OR is it: Your Scatological eminence focused on things excretory.
What is going on DIPY; on Sept 22, 1999 you prognosticated that the NDA will show cracks, fissures, loose & mangled joints. George is still here. The joints in NDA are still intact and functional. 24-party Coalition is working as a well oiled machine. Remember it needs preventive maintenance to keep it that way. Your eminent clairvoyant self appears brain-dead in its substance. You play a dangerous game of prognostication. Even pundits fail at that. In the above statement of yours, your bias speaks louder than your balance.
Read what some well-informed people think about India.
Today's NYTimes:
search.nytimes.com
The poor of Pakistan, handicapped by staggering levels of illiteracy and consumed by the daily tasks of survival, have yet to produce their own crop of political leaders. In India, by contrast, the most oppressed sections of society were given preferences in university admissions and public employment and have produced a small middle class of leaders
who have risen to power.
In fact, one of the most striking differences between India and Pakistan, carved from the same British empire in 1947, is that so many of the poor of Pakistan seem to have an ebbing faith in democracy, while surveys have documented a rising belief in the power of the vote among India's poor.
JPR's note:
That speaks volumes, man. Hey Dipy : I have an idea . Why don't you become a foreign correspondent for a newspaper based in India or US. Write all you want. we like a contrarian opinion to keep us checking ourselves and keep us fit. At least you will make money that way. The proof that you will survive in the reportage will be your continued employment as a correspondent. Are you made of material and fabric fit for that task of unbiased reports. |
