These subjects
are not important for our country’s leaders. What is? Who is
sleeping with whom? Who has fathered whose child? Who is
encouraging poetesses and enabling public exposure for them?
Who is befriending which lady journalist and getting stories
planted for himself or his party’s benefit?
Is all this
not making a farce of governance and also of the media which
is supposed to be its watchdog? Or has the taste of the public
degenerated that they are interested only in such ‘sizzling’
subjects?
There is so
much to do and so much to write about. Starvation haunts the
country, drought plagues it; unemployment is turning thousands
of people into either beggars or crooks; farmers suffer if
they grow more (there are no buyers) and if they grow less
(they do not have enough to sell), food is procured for
distribution to the poor but lands up in some shopkeeper’s
godown for sale; the list can go on forever.
It is time
both these important estates of society gave this a serious
think and did something about it.
