Amar Singh, the Media and other idiots

The buzz is that Mulayam Singh's political soulmate and mannequin-in-the-shopwindow, Mr Amar Singh has resigned all party posts and has declared a sabbatical from active politics. On the mend after a kidney transplant, it is logical that a man needs rest. After all, he has said that he often has a twenty hour workday. Of course, the media has taken it for granted that nothing 'normal' can happen in politics, and now when you turn on the incessant 'chatter' of the news channels, you are going to be shoved into the mortuary, where you will be forced to watch a post-mortem of every syllable the man has uttered following his announcement.

On another matter in the news: some students decide to have some 'fun' with the freshmen in their college, and are of course promptly booked for 'ragging', which is a sort of ordinary story. the twist in the tale comes from another politician ( a Miister in Maharashtra)who wants to pin the blame for that incident on an idiotic film for 'inspiring' the deed. Hey nanny, nanny! Are young Indian men of eighteen so bird-brianed that they are 'influenced' by a film? And to think that the IPC regards the age of 9 years as the age of 'criminality'?

The reality is that a street kid can be beaten, bruised and locked up, but grown men have a minister trying to pin the blame on a film as an excuse for their misconduct! It's time the minister gets his head examined!
Personally I feel that this anti-ragging law is rather like POTA, sometimes ineffective and at others able to become a weapon of state control, but that's the subject for another day.