Political Promiscuity - coining the term for Indian Politics

the other day I was watching a news segment and heard the term "Political Promiscuity" - i immediately felt that such a term was quite appropriate for the current political scenarios in India. I also read an article by T.D. Jagadesan titled "Provoking political promiscuity" where he goes in length describing the fragmented regional parties. To me who has been living outside the country, its just amazing to see how the entire system miraculously somehow comes together and functions as a country and that too democratically. I wonder sometimes how is it that India as a country can achieve a 6+ percent growth rate and at the same time have such a dis-associated set of politicians. With the two leading parties Congress and BJP which on its own cannot come to power - we have a bunch of parties (and what a joke) - most of these parties have no serious leadership or agenda other than a race to foot themselves as Prime Ministerial candidates or play king makers. In previous races it was usually the question of who is going to go in bed with whom - but with this race it is more a question of who is not going to bed with whom. The journalists have started to define the sections as secular-communal divide - which I don't think any smart person can define. What is a secular party and what is a communal party. The easiest way to define is to say that BJP says there should be a temple built hence they are communal and everybody are secular. This topic can have its own blog! In all this ongoing mix of commotion when are the leaders going to debate about issues. Where are we on poverty (other than wining Oscars for movies projecting abject poverty), where are we on education, food and water. I would love to see a good debate amongst these people to articulate their plan on how they are going to solve them. I would love to see a change in Indian politics in the near future. I wish all the best to the young able politicians to get past this ridiculous show. I hope that the next generation of leaders can actually make a difference. (hope my dear friend Monica Matani can get into mainstream politics and get to be part of the team that can fix this).

Blogger Slack!! facebook twitter flicker youtube overwhelmed!!

Well I am blogger slack phase overwhelmed to keep up with all the social media tools that I now need to use. but now I am recovered and will pick it up from here. So in the past 9 months what have I been upto? lets see - Running- ran the San Jose Rock and Roll Marathon (will post some pictures soon) and under 3 hours I think. was great fun. Ran the US Half Marathon - the golden gate run is always spectacular. Ran the las vegas marathon - yuck was cold and a little fever running and was my personal worst in terms of time. ran the Kaiser Half marathon in San Francisco - great timing 2 and half hour.
Travel wise - did a quick trip to dubai and then to India (Mumbai and Bangalore).
Work wise - been busy with few new customers. Acquired a new company Pricesbolo.com - check it out - the click, compare, choose site for Indian market (will write more about it later). And yeah started RunMantra with Samir. Its a foundation to connect runners, find running groups and offer training programs. so lots going on, will keep the blog going.