Double, double, toil and trouble…

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble

2018 is likely to be one long round of electioneering — besides the north-eastern states, assembly elections are due in Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Rajasthan where the BJP is incumbent, and in Karnataka that the BJP is trying to wrest from the ruling Congress party. And it is all shaping up into the sort of witches’ brew that Shakespeare provided the recipe for.

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It’s the process, stupid

Electricity in our villages can help control population growth. Electricity will lead to television in houses, which will lead to population control. When there is no light, people get engaged in the process of population growth.

That comment courtesy our Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad. Who was the bloke who once said man is the only animal that elects someone less capable to lead him?

The quote courtesy Amit Varma, who has more by way of comment.