A switch is a switch is a twitch

A few days ago I saw a Crabtree ad trying to sell itself as a brand of the classes. The woman in a couple driving in their sedan is arguing about the switches they intend to use in their home and she can't understand her husband's obsession with a brand in so trivial a matter. The husband doesn't answer but halts the car near a roadside tea-stall for a cup. The lady is discomposed at the very thought and shows an expression of horror which at the same time says to her husband, "touché!".


These chai ki dukans are a part and parcel of Indian life and ethos. And more than that this is a rozi-roti for many. When the opposition in Bengal raised doubts about the claim government and sections in media were making about the number of jobs Tatas would be able to create, it was these kind of jobs in the informal sector- "indirect jobs"- that they said would supplement the few jobs created by the car factory directly. And this argument was bought by the classes without any second thoughts.
I know I'm sounding moralish but doesn't it cause a pang in somewhere to see that this is what some people are being offered as subsistence for their lives and then those who sold these ideas to them slighting them?

Frontal moralism/Dorsal doublespeak

CPM is going in a search for the Holy Grail of Indian politics once again. A front that is free from all the muck of power play in the interests of the People. INC is tainted with corrupt leaders, who treat People as chattel. BJP is an anti-secular party for which People have a visceral hatred. Those who call themselves Maoists are no better than terrorists- they are wolves in the lamb's clothings who want to destroy the peaceful democratic system in India. Whether or no People vote for them, do they really think that people don't see through this rhetoric? That they don't see CPM's 'sagacious' politics working behind all this propaganda?

Buddha calls Maoists cowards in his campaigns; CPM is fighting the coming elections as a United(!) bloc with them in Bihar. Congress' politics is all about wheel and deal; Bardhan thinks Mayawati is being tainted by the elitists. BJP is out to divide the country once again in the name of religion; Vijayan can't see Madani isn't even acceptable to the Indian Union Muslim League, a party based on religion.