My Coffee Love

India has seen a new Government in the last few months and people are elated with rising stock market and tomatoes (in the near future) costing Rs. 10 per kg (let’s not look at the excessive stock as a reason for this) and fuel prices dropping across Maharashtra! Great news, na? Well actually I beg to differ! Let’s look at some instances of the “invincible” Modi Sarkar that made my blood boil like never before: 1.      Centre issues a directive to the High Court that for child passports unwed mothers need to declare how she conceived the child (Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/For-childs-passport-unwed-mother-needs-to-declare-if-she-was-raped-Centre-to-HC/articleshow/44988057.cms ). Why should it anger you? Well, for one, we have been fighting to get women stand up for their rights! When Nirbhaya was raped, BJP strongly condemned Shiela Dixit, the CM of Delhi at that time, asking for her resignation. What BJP Government has done today...

Off-late every radio station has a song singing praises of Modi, every hoarding has the face of Modi, every person's Facebook and Twitter feed is filled with comments about Modi. I'm sure most of you guys also feel taxed about this! Wherever we go, Modi follows! Thankfully he's not present on my cuppa coffee (phew!!) I don’t have a problem with any party promoting a particular individual as their Prime Minister. In fact, it shows that the party is pretty sure about what it wants. My problem is with BJP's positioning  for this election. BJP has NO other positioning except vote for Modi. Highlighting a few key points as to why this is a problem for a common man: Modi has been talking of Gujarat! What he forgets is, if NDA comes into power and he becomes the PM, he will have to govern the entire country and  not one state! Modi believes that the Gujarat Model of development will work for all states. I'm not even getting into the fact that m...