A topic for study

The goal of any study should be to get to the core of the issue at hand. To get to the core, one must be able to wade through several difficult parts. 

In this segment of five parts, I shall delve into reasons for picking this topic, method of proposed study, 

Question the poet

Are you lying?

-- Or --

Are you playing a game (of shadows)

with language?

Don't you know that shadows

are dangerous things?

Do they seduce you?

-- Or --

Do you get seduced?

Bangalore

It is interesting to note what the Congress party does to a place it is in power in. I have studied its origin and its past, but I am very sad to understand why people can be pushed to the other alternative. Till now, I had thought there is no justification for the people to vote for a person. As I write this, I understand that it is not the person, but an alternative that people voted for. 

In the defence of the people: It does not matter what the original nature of the people is -- it is what we become that decides the course of our life. And politics still does have a huge role in our country in making people who they are. And so does religion, unfortunately, but that will have to wait. 

I was looking forward to staying in a state ruled by the Congress, when the BJP is in power in the country. 

The mistake I made in assessment was undermining the power of corruption as an evil. Let us say corruption can create deep divides, and then we are forced to hand over the reigns to a party/group of persons, that/who has/have experience with presiding over a deeply divided society. This I understood by taking Bangalore as an example. As it is ruled by the Congress, a party that very well may be dying, it is easy to see that sometimes even on your deathbed, you may not have learned. 

The entire state with about 50 districts, has only one big city. The rural-urban divide is at its greatest in such a scenario, as with all the resources going to feed its one big city, the state at best ignores and at worst exploits its rural environment. Every week, hundreds of farmers come into the city, among them a few -- in the groups, who come to make their voice heard -- to search for work as labourers. 

Most of the migrant labour in Bangalore is from the rest of Karnataka. And many of them are employed in construction. After the IT boom kind of settled down, the city had nothing to offer, but real estate. Here is where the politicians come into play -- as many of the politicians in power in the state today have a finger in the real-estate pie too. 

(...to be continued)