What's in my eyes is in the world

Last I wrote here was on 14th April. Precisely a month and a half ago. Probably its lethargy and nothing else. One can easily steal some time for writing every day but it's that small extra effort which very less number of people are able to take. Anyway, lots happened between 14th April and today. Prabhakaran (if we believe so) is dead. An almost 30 years of Tamil-Singhali war seems to be over. The fight of LTTE cadre over a separate Tamil province is mercilessly killed. No matter what happened to Prabhakaran, there're misreporting on civilian deaths in Sri Lanka.

Indian elections concluded a few weeks ago. Manmohan Singh became second time lucky in absence of any formidable challenge from any of the Congress leader. Sonia succeeded the second time to run the government by proxy. Interestingly every political prediction, which gave births to 1000 speculations, failed and was crushed by resurging Congress. The party stood tall overall gaining a massive lead in UP, Rajasthan, Kerala and the bastion of leftist parties - the West Bengal. It was shocking enough for me to take a few days to digest the fact that a baseless-aimless-idiot lady in Bengal can shake the leftists from their roots. She, along with Congress, had written a new chapter in the history of Bengal politics. The leftists have just 2 damn years to save their 30 year long undisputed, uninterrupted rule before it becomes a chapter in the books of History. There was an era when the communist ruled West Bengal for 30 years and then came a lady - small, short, aimless, baseless but still devastated the mighty red bastion. Before it's late left parties have to really reorganise themselves, come out of air conditioned shells and be on their feet to save themselves from further damage.

Advani, Modi, Jaitley, Rajnath, Joshi, Swaraj...do these names ring any bells into your years? Well they were the architects of BJPs 2009 election plan - Mazboot Neta-Nirnayak Sarkar' (Powerful leader-decisive government). A tall leader in stature and PM in waiting - remained grounded. Probably he will never get a chance to stay at 7 Race Course Road. All of BJP's poll planks boomeranged on its cadre. The party got humiliated on all fronts - Modi didn't do any good in his state. Shivraj Singh Chauhan (CM of MP) could not retain his charisma. Vasundhara fell flat in the race. Everywhere there was a loss for the party, which was around 100 seats behind Congress. We new can expect a less vocal opposition in the Parliament and least disruptions too.

Most of this was routine events which were slated to happen. Prabhakaran was trapped and was plotted to be killed. Manmohan was to become PM - it was almost certain if not cast in stone. But something that wasn't expected and came as a shock was Nepal's political drama. Prachanda - who looked like an ultimate reformer and had rightfully clipped the wings of the monarchy - had to resign from the government. It was not expected at all. But radical leaders are not spared to do good work. There are always forces pulling them back and under the able guidance of the US, any nation professing progressive leftist ideology is subjected to the destiny Prachanda met. There is no support to people who want to create new social order. I'll explain this next time I write.