Reality Check Now !

It is almost a combination of hindsight as well as combination storm in media. Anyway to shield yourself from the flying debris of punditry, you need not go any farther than reading Bibek Debroy , Swaminathan Aiyar and Shishir Gupta. Gist of the articles is, as far as success of Congress is concerned we don't know whether NREGA or loan waiver clicked with the voters, or whether Manmohan Singh unencumbered with left will unleash the awesome series of reforms, regarding BJP, Shishir Gupta raises a basic though neglected point  that BJP was undone by chronic infighting.

What irks me with this kind of instant wisdom, as far as debacle of BJP is concerned, is that it stops any serious analysis, therefore before accepting any such wild speculation as a fact, one must look at the bigger picture and use whatever data he or she possesses.

Now I am not the best person to write about the causes of debacle and the way forward but still I will give it a shot. My arguments will be wishing for plague on both those who support discarding cultural nationalism and those who think problem with BJP was it wasn't right enough.