Caste Politics Vs Development Politics

Caste Politics Vs Development Politics​

By:Amit Bhushan Date:29th Nov. 2017

One of the tragedy of the South East Asian brand of politics is political support for fringe elements of nearly every kind. And this is played up in a subtle manner in the commercial news media with full disdain about ‘real issues’ like jobs, education or even cornering of opportunities by a few by unscrupulous means etc. The ‘elements’ in government as well as not in government but in active politics abet the moves with the commercial news media ever ready to play an able slave. This can be by playing up some stupid overhyped mis-information around some entertainment project to rally some caste group by Netas in government or netas in opposition backing some ill-advised noise on expansion of ‘Reservations’ rather than identifying projects that would improve opportunities. There are nations where some of these fringe elements would go about ‘gun-totting’ but would still get the political backing. This goes on to show the extent Netas are ready to go to keep ‘real issues’ under the carpet although newer schemes to attract ‘big foreign money’ and infra projects seem to be a rising need to be showcased to keep publics engaged with Netas and the government. Had it not for the ‘big defeat or upset’ in the last general elections in India, the ‘development’ discussions would have been totally avoided and that would also have had full support of the commercial news media which basically revolves and also like to revolve around the so called Netas or some isolated incidents. The general struggle of the common man around Job or other problems in socio-cultural life (current issues) are something that doesn’t interest the news media and in that sense it draws from the entertainment media a lot so that it can maintain viewership numbers. The absence or failed systems of the government delivery which may be in need to rectification (having been in perennial neglect or suffering from political butchery) are rarely its concerns and what it looks for is either some triumph which could be celebrated or some serious failure that can be ostracized.

The political class knows this (the need of the commercial news media) too well. This is about a near total lack of good story tellers who can portray the everyday struggles powerfully to the people and the powers that be. They also fully understand that journos are in some sort of conscious or unconscious competition from literary writers or artists who yearn for captivating audience for an instance and are attempting to market themselves basis ability to repeat/re-live such instances. Nearly all journos in mainline news media especially at the senior level also believe that analysis of data is not their job since it may be boring from viewership point of view as people relate to stories rather than statistical numbers. They would rather follow the footsteps of the brethren from the commercial market news media ‘who narrate the numbers with the story they are compelled to highlight’ on their way to professional journalism. It must be acknowledged that there may be some improvements in mainline journalism as a result of powerful ostracism of it in the social media and it has started put some everyday struggles of people in the right perspective. This can be via some lingering issues that have been neglected like the state of higher education, health care institutions or the case government commitment have not been delivered or where the noise made the Netas (in government) are contrary to what may be witnessed by people on ground (earlier such information tend to get pushed under the carpet). Such moves in journalism including those who can present data powerfully might be getting greater appreciation in public, rather than the ‘power stories coverage’ of yesteryears though the artists and writer types may not want to acknowledge the same. This seems to have changed in the ‘Urban India’ (drawing room) settings as a result of the fur over in social media about the commercial news media. This subtle aspect might get missed and therefore highlighted here in the article for the readers.

Now coming to the topic. The political netas are either yet to realize or perhaps they understand and have moderated their aspirations that development politics and caste politics do not go hand in hand. The result of walking by carrying the two along would only result in a much splintered verdict with no clear winners or losers. Now for some, they may like to cherish it as victory. However the result is likely to be unstable even afterwards and a failure to project success can soon result in further diminishing of the image. Going by the current struggle of the political class, it seems to be in a loose-loose phase instead of their traditional win-win narrative where both side play their narrative which has nothing to do with real issues. Mixing development or real issues with caste politics curtails focus as well as ability to address any since the ‘combination’ that comes to power would simple have too many internal contradictions besides laws and courts to deal with. So even a ‘potential winner’ may have chance to loose on the image given the level of chicanery involved. However for the political psephologists within the parties, it is victory that matters rather ‘image’ which be built by paying up on the way. For a short term even the ‘Development politics seems to be a loser as current reverberations seem to be more around narrow interests rather than say the happenstance around CPEC or non-incidents around ‘Make in India, Digital India or Cashless’. However the ‘Development politics is not sustained by media alone since there is a strong pull or demand from public and therefore disappointment from lack of delivery or frustration with policy entanglements, whereas Caste politics or other narrow interests sustain itself basis ‘paper delivery’ and emotive hypes in the commercial news media alone. Procedural or Legal entanglements for caste politics would only further ruin image of the Neta without much impact to public. Let’s see the ‘Game’ evolve…

 

[Dhruv Bindhani]

Caste Politics Vs Development Politics​

By:Amit Bhushan Date:29th Nov. 2017

One of the tragedy of the South East Asian brand of politics is political support for fringe elements of nearly every kind. And this is played up in a subtle manner in the commercial news media with full disdain about ‘real issues’ like jobs, education or even cornering of opportunities by a few by unscrupulous means etc. The ‘elements’ in government as well as not in government but in active politics abet the moves with the commercial news media ever ready to play an able slave. This can be by playing up some stupid overhyped mis-information around some entertainment project to rally some caste group by Netas in government or netas in opposition backing some ill-advised noise on expansion of ‘Reservations’ rather than identifying projects that would improve opportunities. There are nations where some of these fringe elements would go about ‘gun-totting’ but would still get the political backing. This goes on to show the extent Netas are ready to go to keep ‘real issues’ under the carpet although newer schemes to attract ‘big foreign money’ and infra projects seem to be a rising need to be showcased to keep publics engaged with Netas and the government. Had it not for the ‘big defeat or upset’ in the last general elections in India, the ‘development’ discussions would have been totally avoided and that would also have had full support of the commercial news media which basically revolves and also like to revolve around the so called Netas or some isolated incidents. The general struggle of the common man around Job or other problems in socio-cultural life (current issues) are something that doesn’t interest the news media and in that sense it draws from the entertainment media a lot so that it can maintain viewership numbers. The absence or failed systems of the government delivery which may be in need to rectification (having been in perennial neglect or suffering from political butchery) are rarely its concerns and what it looks for is either some triumph which could be celebrated or some serious failure that can be ostracized.

The political class knows this (the need of the commercial news media) too well. This is about a near total lack of good story tellers who can portray the everyday struggles powerfully to the people and the powers that be. They also fully understand that journos are in some sort of conscious or unconscious competition from literary writers or artists who yearn for captivating audience for an instance and are attempting to market themselves basis ability to repeat/re-live such instances. Nearly all journos in mainline news media especially at the senior level also believe that analysis of data is not their job since it may be boring from viewership point of view as people relate to stories rather than statistical numbers. They would rather follow the footsteps of the brethren from the commercial market news media ‘who narrate the numbers with the story they are compelled to highlight’ on their way to professional journalism. It must be acknowledged that there may be some improvements in mainline journalism as a result of powerful ostracism of it in the social media and it has started put some everyday struggles of people in the right perspective. This can be via some lingering issues that have been neglected like the state of higher education, health care institutions or the case government commitment have not been delivered or where the noise made the Netas (in government) are contrary to what may be witnessed by people on ground (earlier such information tend to get pushed under the carpet). Such moves in journalism including those who can present data powerfully might be getting greater appreciation in public, rather than the ‘power stories coverage’ of yesteryears though the artists and writer types may not want to acknowledge the same. This seems to have changed in the ‘Urban India’ (drawing room) settings as a result of the fur over in social media about the commercial news media. This subtle aspect might get missed and therefore highlighted here in the article for the readers.

Now coming to the topic. The political netas are either yet to realize or perhaps they understand and have moderated their aspirations that development politics and caste politics do not go hand in hand. The result of walking by carrying the two along would only result in a much splintered verdict with no clear winners or losers. Now for some, they may like to cherish it as victory. However the result is likely to be unstable even afterwards and a failure to project success can soon result in further diminishing of the image. Going by the current struggle of the political class, it seems to be in a loose-loose phase instead of their traditional win-win narrative where both side play their narrative which has nothing to do with real issues. Mixing development or real issues with caste politics curtails focus as well as ability to address any since the ‘combination’ that comes to power would simple have too many internal contradictions besides laws and courts to deal with. So even a ‘potential winner’ may have chance to loose on the image given the level of chicanery involved. However for the political psephologists within the parties, it is victory that matters rather ‘image’ which be built by paying up on the way. For a short term even the ‘Development politics seems to be a loser as current reverberations seem to be more around narrow interests rather than say the happenstance around CPEC or non-incidents around ‘Make in India, Digital India or Cashless’. However the ‘Development politics is not sustained by media alone since there is a strong pull or demand from public and therefore disappointment from lack of delivery or frustration with policy entanglements, whereas Caste politics or other narrow interests sustain itself basis ‘paper delivery’ and emotive hypes in the commercial news media alone. Procedural or Legal entanglements for caste politics would only further ruin image of the Neta without much impact to public. Let’s see the ‘Game’ evolve…

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