2024 is Election Year! Time magazine could very well anoint Elections as its Person Of The Year. The New York Times estimates that about 80 countries are going to elections in 2024 with roughly half the world’s population getting to cast its vote. That’s 4 billion people! On the line are races that will merely strengthen entrenched regimes, as well as chances for nascent democracies to take hold. All of this will add a lot more upheaval to an already upheaved humanity that has been reeling under a never-ending war of attrition in Europe, a 26/11 kind of intrusion and subsequent retaliation gone awry that is now threatening the entire Middle East which in turn is threatening the heavily oil-dependent world economy into fast forwarding its adoption to electric, not to forget the continent of children of a lesser God – aka Africa – grappling with civil wars, a belligerent China bent on establishing the supremacy of the East, and last but not the least the USA that too goes to polls having to choose between two geriatrics – one lightheaded, and the other pigheaded. Whoa … quite an action packed world order! And bang in the middle of all of this turmoil half the people in the world get to decide how their half is going to shape up in, and shape the world.
Here comes a different one from you Shantanu. Nice new topic and it was fun as well as learning to go through the quotes . I must say , that RK Laxman connects hugely related to Indian politics and his posts are timeless .
Thanks much, Swapneel. I had to exercise tremendous control in not making the entire post about R.K. Laxman - such has been the prophetic and incisive nature of his work.
I simply loved all the statements you attached at the end of your write up !
Thanks, Avinash. I missed out one though - an RK Laxman classic - I stopped making cartoons of politicians after cartoons became politicians.
Absolutely apt and brilliant !
Here comes a different one from you Shantanu. Nice new topic and it was fun as well as learning to go through the quotes . I must say , that RK Laxman connects hugely related to Indian politics and his posts are timeless .
Thanks much, Swapneel. I had to exercise tremendous control in not making the entire post about R.K. Laxman - such has been the prophetic and incisive nature of his work.