http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:07:21 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2007/06/13/083941.php#comment-358986 Dies ist ein großer Ort. Ich möchte hier noch einmal. 358986@desicritics.org Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:07:21 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/06/13/083941.php#comment-358984 Dies ist ein großer Ort. Ich möchte hier noch einmal. 358984@desicritics.org Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:06:41 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/06/13/083941.php#comment-358104 Gute Arbeit hier! Gute Inhalte. 358104@desicritics.org Fri, 6 Mar 2009 05:06:04 EST http://desicritics.org/2007/06/13/083941.php#comment-358103 Gute Arbeit hier! Gute Inhalte. 358103@desicritics.org Fri, 6 Mar 2009 05:05:26 EST http://desicritics.org/2007/06/13/083941.php#comment-226322 Ben, I do agree that K.R. Narayanan was a good man too. In fact I have acknowledged him also. But, so were many others before him, my point is that we end up celebrating the details and forget that the institution itself needs to be internally changed. Look what is happening now, we are celebrating a possible women President, sure in the days to come there will be writings on the female power and how we are better than the Americans who never elected a women President, etc. But, the byline reads that the current candidate has been a loyalist to the Congress party forever. All the other accomplishments of this lady wane in significance. This trend of the Congress to place the loyalty to the party and all that it stands for (the more loyalists in different positions, the more does the congress method functioning become legitimized) above or as a condition to appoint people for important posts has caused immense damage to the political institutions, the Presidentship is one among them. I think Presidents who hail from a difficult background and have accomplished much such as K.R.Narayanan do give much pride to the nation. I don't intend to be dis-respectful to any of them. My argument is that the post has a significance, there needs to be more transparency and much more clarity on the criteria for a candidate to occupy the post of the first person of the country. 226322@desicritics.org Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:24:41 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/06/13/083941.php#comment-225685 I do agree with you praising Dr APJ. But I certainly need to disagree with you for not giving enough credit for former president K R Narayanan.. He was also a common man and reached the heights with his determination. He related to common man. Didn't had much publicity stunts under his sleves. Brave, Determined and a good human being. So I would consider your article to be a bit disrespectful to a Great man... No offense to another greater man APJ Abdul Kalam. 225685@desicritics.org Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:01:39 EDT