The title adage used to have good feeling to it until recently in India. With the recent elections unleashing a flush of offsprings following their father's path, I wonder how many of them are deserving to get a head start in their political life just because of the initials or last names, as the case may be. It should also be mention that such a question of qualification can often be applied to their popular parent as well.History has very very few instances where an offspring equalled, if not excelled, his/her accomplished parent. Few names come to mind Alexander the Great, Rajendra Chola (son of Raja Raja Chola) but in theses cases, both generations we illustrious.
Back to India, see the following slide show from Rediff on the young blood infused into parliament this election time. In the name of Father and Grandfather
I do consider the following off spring either outright useless and/or ill-qualified to get a headstart just because their so called "lineage" - Here are my rankings
10. Rahul Gandhi / Sonia&Rajiv - all over India.
9. Agatha Sangma / Purno Sangma from Meghalaya.
8. Scindia Jr. , again with zero experience, from MP
7. Sachin Pilot in footsteps of Rajesh Pilot, with zero experience.
6. Omar Abdullah / Farooq Abdullah of J&K.
5. Supriya/ Sharad Pawar of Maharashtra.
4. Muraleedharan / Karunakaran of Kerala
3. HD Kumaraswamy / DeveGowda - Karnataka.
2. Akilesh Yadav, son of Mulayam Singh Yadav - heard he was a roudy.
1. Leading from the top and beating others hands down is the Karunanidhi clan from my homestate of Tamil Nadu -- his sons Stalin, Azhagiri (both rowdies), daughter kanimozhi, nephew Dayanidhi Maran. Barring Stalin, all the others have not even worked for the party for a decent time when they overshot other party functionaries to ministerial berths.
Of course, the life time achievement award in this category should go to "so called Gandhi" family who have been capitalizing the Gandhi name better than Mahatma's real descendants themselves. While the others in the list have been able to maintain the nepotistic tint only for 2 generations, the "Gandhi" clan is in its successful 5th Generation and still counting (money too in recent years) - Motilal, Jawaharlal, Indira, Rajiv&Sonia, Rahul....
Oh my God, let my country awake.
Dubiously enough, me and my son had to pose for this post. Sepia tone supposedly gives a bit of backdated historic touch to a normal photo.
Back to India, see the following slide show from Rediff on the young blood infused into parliament this election time. In the name of Father and Grandfather
I do consider the following off spring either outright useless and/or ill-qualified to get a headstart just because their so called "lineage" - Here are my rankings
10. Rahul Gandhi / Sonia&Rajiv - all over India.
9. Agatha Sangma / Purno Sangma from Meghalaya.
8. Scindia Jr. , again with zero experience, from MP
7. Sachin Pilot in footsteps of Rajesh Pilot, with zero experience.
6. Omar Abdullah / Farooq Abdullah of J&K.
5. Supriya/ Sharad Pawar of Maharashtra.
4. Muraleedharan / Karunakaran of Kerala
3. HD Kumaraswamy / DeveGowda - Karnataka.
2. Akilesh Yadav, son of Mulayam Singh Yadav - heard he was a roudy.
1. Leading from the top and beating others hands down is the Karunanidhi clan from my homestate of Tamil Nadu -- his sons Stalin, Azhagiri (both rowdies), daughter kanimozhi, nephew Dayanidhi Maran. Barring Stalin, all the others have not even worked for the party for a decent time when they overshot other party functionaries to ministerial berths.
Of course, the life time achievement award in this category should go to "so called Gandhi" family who have been capitalizing the Gandhi name better than Mahatma's real descendants themselves. While the others in the list have been able to maintain the nepotistic tint only for 2 generations, the "Gandhi" clan is in its successful 5th Generation and still counting (money too in recent years) - Motilal, Jawaharlal, Indira, Rajiv&Sonia, Rahul....
Oh my God, let my country awake.
Dubiously enough, me and my son had to pose for this post. Sepia tone supposedly gives a bit of backdated historic touch to a normal photo.
2 comments:
I think you have captured well here the feeling of helplesness of most of indians. What could be next tile is "In the foot steps of husband/lover/.." Wide examples there also.
Funny thing is tamil people (more of the followers of DMK party) do not see any rationale, when hard core followers/thondargal have been left out of leadership positions. May be people do not have any other choice ! When Kanimozhi was a joke, this election saw the greatest "alwa"
to tamil voters in getting Azhagiri to stand. Sure, after the drama for few days in Delhi, all of these guys will be Ministers.
God save us ! (no pun intended)
Ironically, same scenario sometimes can be mapped to MNCs where people grow because of getting a grand father/mother figure !
May be you will write about that also soon.
On case of nepotism in business, true there are instances as well but I feel, businesses are more often a victim of a bigger monster called capitalism (than nepotism). Of course, communism is not better choice either. thanks for your encouraging words.
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