Wit Wisdom and Whoop

The elections are over and results are out. Whether people like it or not, if we believe in democracy we must accept the result with grace and move on. Modi or Rahul or Mulayam, they are not going to be sitting by your bedside to hold your hand. They are gonna throw a basket that has flowers - (some fresh, some stinking rotten and how many of each we dont know) - into the indian crowd. What we catch or what hits us we dont know. So lets wait and watch with optimism. One thing I noticed was that after 1977 which was when my personal interest in politics started this was the first election where the majority of the citizens were emotionally involved. Everyone took pole positions, nothing mattered but politics. There was huge polarisation not just in terms of caste, community, religion but also 2 new religions as I came to term them - AM & PM - Anti Modi, Pro Modi - and the 2 new religions dominated the landscape of India drowning the traditional groups. With 72 seats in UP and 7 ...