Election Manifesto for the BJP and RSS

1. Within the first 12 months of coming to power, the party would make sure that the prominent Hindu religious places will be made steadfastly clean. As clean as the Gurudwaras in India and the Churches in Europe
2. The important cities of India like Nagpur, Varanasi, Puri, Gangotri, Jaipur, Udaipur, Agra, Mathura, Veraval, Somnath, of course Ayodhya and so on will be made clean.
3. The mighty river Ganga will be made a national heritage and the river cleaned up on priority within the first 24 months of the party taking office irrespective of whether it is a coalition or not.
4. The party will pledge to ensure that each state where it is in power, the police will be made independent of the politicians as per the Supreme Court judgement and that massive funds would be released to increase the staff strength by 2011.

India politicians playing with India

Let us not kid ourselves. India is under seize. And as always, Indians know this much better and since much earlier than our fuddy duddy politicians. We live in our country the way people live in Gaza or perhaps in Srinagar. Bombs, murders, thefts, unaccountable or irrlevant politicians are a way of life.
We all go on with doing our daily chores, hoping and praying that while do so, we wouldnt suddnely die an untimely death. For us, life goes on, as it has to. Is there an alternative?
We cant hope for justice, prevention, security, safety, law and order.
How different does that sound from being in Darfur? I guess, the only difference is that we have skyscrapers, fancy cars and big shopping malls for the 10% population that can afford it. Otherwise, we are all living our daily lives praying not to get killed. If my guess is right, i guess the probability of someone dying such a death in India would be similar to that of one in Gaza or Darfur, if we discount the hugely larger population that we have. May be that is going to be our strength some day - terrorists getting tired of killing so many of us.
How, just how, can politcians continue to talk regionalism, casteism, religion, and of all the things, smoking bans whilst India goes through such attacks year after year.
They travel all over the world. Why dont they see that New York hasnt had another attack ever since, London hasnt been yet attacked but Mumbai has been repeatedly attacked. And its not just about Mumbai. Its the whole country. Why? How cold blooded can they be? Tragedy is that this includes all politicians, of all shades and hues. They are all for something or the other, for Marathis, for Sri Lanka Tamils, for Hindus, for Muslims, for SC/STs...there is no one who is for Indians despite all bullshit talk of Hindutva and Hindustan and what not.
What, if at all, can be done? I dont have hope from humans in India. Do you?