Tuesday, April 30, 2019

.... General election....

....Reminded  of  the General Elections  in India of the Seventies until  Nineties ,  Post Independence, wherein  it  was a day  long affair  & quite  turbulent  in  that ...Post  T N Seshan  as  CEC a altogether  difft  approach was  adopted  to avoid clashes ,  in  tht  ,  the Current  election  is  a  7  phase  one , an  unprecedented  1 , 1/2  mnth  in  a  trying Indian summer .  Tru  clashes  are dramatically  less &  the world's largest Democracy will  see  smooth  change in guard. The EVM s hv replaced the ballot paper ...all  very  smooth ....but  the spirit of the  Electioneering  now  truncated  phase  wise  is  missing ...  probably  this  is  wht  is  modern  times  & mature  electorate  is all  abt  ...God Bless    the nation ......

Indochina calling…

The Hanoi morn was brite and sunny but heavy, the moisture laden air  perceptible  ,as it’s first day of June , the trip to Indochina taking...