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Pratap Bhanu Mehta: The Moral Fraud of Narendra Modi's "Good Governance Day"
by Guest Thu Dec 25, 2014 12:47 pm
“Good Governance Day” brings a sense of farce and foreboding. It is a farce because it smacks more of a Hallmark marketing gimmick than serious governance. Parliament was stalled because the government abdicated moral leadership. And there isn’t yet a single major governance reform that excites enthusiasm.
The idea that such a farcical notion should replace a day to meditate on the two central concepts of Christianity and most thinking traditions, agape (unconditional love) and caritas (the friendship of man for god and fellow creatures), suggests the crudest of sensibilities. Foreboding, because it was announced as an act of raw power, pure and simple — the attempt by the state to colonise a sacred holiday.
The sheer mendacity and clumsiness of the attempt could not detract from the ominous context that surrounded it. The RSS and the Sangh Parivar are vitiating the atmosphere against Christians. We wanted to make religion less relevant to politics; the RSS wants to make it the only thing relevant to politics. Many will, of course, have a sense of schadenfreude. What else did you expect from the Modi government? Was it not a delusion to think that the BJP could transcend its RSS roots?
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/what-vajpayee-would-do/#sthash.6GlPt3RJ.V3t4y2xr.dpuf
The idea that such a farcical notion should replace a day to meditate on the two central concepts of Christianity and most thinking traditions, agape (unconditional love) and caritas (the friendship of man for god and fellow creatures), suggests the crudest of sensibilities. Foreboding, because it was announced as an act of raw power, pure and simple — the attempt by the state to colonise a sacred holiday.
The sheer mendacity and clumsiness of the attempt could not detract from the ominous context that surrounded it. The RSS and the Sangh Parivar are vitiating the atmosphere against Christians. We wanted to make religion less relevant to politics; the RSS wants to make it the only thing relevant to politics. Many will, of course, have a sense of schadenfreude. What else did you expect from the Modi government? Was it not a delusion to think that the BJP could transcend its RSS roots?
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/what-vajpayee-would-do/#sthash.6GlPt3RJ.V3t4y2xr.dpuf
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