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Politicians and Gandhian philosophy? This is a joke.

It is a fact that politicians congregate in five star hotels and resorts to gamble on "who gets what, when and how". And why shouldn't they? They are after all the policy makers, 'deliberating' on policies that are supposedly going to take the sweaty, recession and inflation strained masses to a new degree of economic and social elevation.

Tough job. Hence the need for the five star luxury. They need to plan all the high sounding, moral promises that they could air (disregarding the environmental laws) to the open mouthed gullible masses who are always ready to believe anything and everything that can make their life a little better.

True. Barkha's mulling is not wrong. But, I wonder which 'society' is she talking about here? 'Society' as in For the Richie Rich, By the Richie Rich, Of the Richie Rich?

Yes, it is contradictory. I believe so. If these Richie Rich could stay in a luxury hotel why not politicians. They are not exactly paupers or jute jhola slung social workers. They are our 'policy jugglers'. They decide our future.

Gandhian philosophy of simple living, staying content with what one has, simple eating habits,forgiving each other, practising non violence, etc is passée.

Think about it, if our politicians starts following Gandhian philosophy, what would happen to our fashion industry, our aviation industry, our out of work and over worked film stars, our internal security....(I mean the NSGs commondos would be roped in to protect our nation instead of gussying up our netas). That's a long list. No, never should our politicians compromise on their life style. They are NOT social workers.

Then what happens to Gandhiji's philosophy?
Never to worry, our politicians would gladly congregate in another luxury hotel to mull over this too.