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A New Year may be the moment for pledges that remain
unfulfilled, but the year-end is always a good time for stocktaking. This is as true for
me personally as this newsmagazine. As we step into yet another uncertain year, I would
like to share a few lessons I have learnt in the past 12 months.
- A prime minister is not necessarily the most powerful man in
the government.
- It is possible to become a prime minister-designate without
talking to the media but keeping the cameras happy.
- Very few have any idea what is actually happening to the
economy, even fewer have the will to fix it.
- Big bombs don't make a nation. It's the economy.
- India is a country in dire need of maintenance for the
present and a vision for the future.
- Muscle power overwhelms freedom of expression, which the
state does little to protect.
- Official investigations invariably end up as witch-hunts.
The corrupt rarely get convicted.
- Babudom has only one agenda: its own.
- Big business wants economic liberalisation but can't stomach
competition.
- Under-achieving nonentities -- those famous for being famous
-- corrupt good causes in their eagerness to become media fodder.
- Be discerning about accepting invitations. Your host could
be a Romesh Sharma!
Give these a thought.
Happy New Year.
(Aroon Purie) |
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