Tuesday, March 16, 2010

It's Time For Reality Check

Remember when we were talking about how can we rescue India from the clutches of patronage system. At that time I said I don't know what will work. I do know however, what will not work,  that is the  way of data, also known as DataNazi's path. Now RC is a smart man, and my appreciation for his smartness is next to no one, how ever it is time now for an intervention.

To understand why, consider Indian politics as a game of chess, now as per RC this game follows the usual rules for chess, only thing that matters is what is the position of chess pieces at the time. Position decide the future moves and which piece can take out which one. This means that even though theoretically queen is more powerful than pawn, depending on their positions a pawn can take out a queen. Now as much intelligent as he is, RC is making a fundamental mistake. The usual rules are just the pretense, the real rule of Indian politics is, to paraphrase fight club, there are no rules.

Or to be more precise there is one rule, it is the beefier player, if he is losing, proceeds to knock down his opponent, and then feeds him chess pieces one by one until he concedes the match. Now one may question the need for pretense. Well it is not a perfect analogy, so give me a break , will you?

So my advice for anyone wishing to win this game is 1. Eat Protein 2. Lift weights.

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