What do they mean by don't politicize?

I really dont understand! What do they mean by don't politicize the issue. I'm referring to the recent shoe throwing incident.

The leader who was assassinated was a politician. The person(s) who were accused of spearheading the massacre of a community are politicians. It is a political party that is accused of being insensitive. The shoe was thrown at a politician, that too, a minister. The person who threw the shoe was a political analyst!

I really dont understand! What do they mean by don't politicize the issue!

Election koothu!

Nowadays, election is the favorite topic whenever I bump into someone! Well, I had cast my vote couple of times in the past. When I moved into my new house, my name got dropped from the voters list. Since then I missed a couple of elections. It was the right mix of Ignorance and laziness that had kept me away from registering my name! I did not know registering my name in the voters list was a simple process. I thought of the bureaucratic govt offices and did not bother to register my name. Thanks to Jaagore, I registered my name in the electoral list recently.

Now, that is the kind of social movements we need the corporate houses to fund. Tata Tea backs Jaagore! See you guys around, Im stepping out for a chai now!

Apeing the west!

Did you switch off the lights during the recently 'passed' Earth Day? What a farce?

The new fad in town is Global warming! The corporates have joined the kitty party ladies. If the West says, we are switching off all electrical appliances for half an hour, it makes a lot of sense. They get electricity 365 days a year 24/7. Their life style needs a numer of gadgets, must-have, need-to-have and nice-to-have types. What is the situation in India? Even in a big city, you would call yourself lucky if you get electricity 24/7 for 300 days a year! The small towns are subjected to power cut everyday, anywhere between 30 to 120 minutes. The remote villages are a sorry sight, many dont even have electricity. When the electricity department is already cutting the power proactively on your behalf, why do you even bother?

You should have seen the amount of e-mails and advertisements that were floating around to promote Earth Day. Avoiding this circus alone would have achieved more than what that half an hour could have, in terms of storage space for those mails, CPU usage, network usage, wasted human energy, etc.

Should we all clamour about global warming just because it is the most fashionable word or the in-thing now? Dont fall for the politicians and corporates. They have a responsibility to 'show' that they care for the environment.

If we are really worried about global warming, then the let us worry about Nano for a starter. At a time when world's natural resources are drying out, when the rich countries have realised their mistakes and are promoting public trappostation, demarking separate lanes for car-pools, we are attempting what is ironickly termed as common man's car. Where will these cars run? Fly?, for we dont have enough road space for the existing vehicles. It would have been a celebration, if the Tatas came up with a Rs. 1,00,000 bus, a public transportation vehicle. That's the need of the hour.

Let us sensitice the people of switching off the lights and fans when leaving a room, switching off the appliances when they are not in use, and not leaving the appliances in standby mode. Then, we will send 'the' message to the authorities. Let us get the priorities correct, let us lock the cart to bull in the right order!