NK SINGH
Mujhe door ka dikhayi deta hai,
Mein deewar par likha padh sakta hoon,
Magar haath ki rekhayen nahin padh sakta.
(I can see far ahead,
I can read the writing on the wall,
But I cannot read the lines on my own palm.)
-A poem written by Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birthday in 1993.
If politics is the art of the possible, what the BJP tried to achieve was virtually the impossible. The party’s failure to win over even one additional MP-its strength on May 28 stood at 194, the same as when its government was sworn in on May 16-demonstrated its inability to read the signals: that the new liberal mask had convinced no one. Continue reading “Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Out But Not Down”