The dialogue is from one of the RGV's films, which I watched many times...KSR's performance in it was outstanding...Anyway, I was thinking whats wrong if everyone learns politics or for that matter is interested in politics.
A lot of people around the globe turn a blind eye to politics or hate it. I think this is partly because of the way politics or politicians are presented in the cinema and partly because everyday a politician or two is in the news for bad reasons in one or the other corners of the world. I was thinking may be this perspective could be changed, if this art or science of governing is taught in colleges/universities like any other profession. I know few colleges teach political science but till date haven't heard of any politician who majored in it or any political science major, whose ambition is to join politics. May be a department in Univs, in which the final destination of the enrolled students is to join a political office. Just as the prospective medicos are trained by the practicing doctors, law students by the professional lawyers, the future politicians should be nurtured by the incumbent and/or ex-politicians in universities.
Back home (so far) politics is for people from political families or people with a community backup or silver or small screen stars or sports (I mean Cricket) personalities or filthy rich industrialists or local Godfathers. If not associated with these groups and happen to contest in the elections, then forget your deposit. Lately, this trend seems to be changing and there are some encouraging signs. In '99, CBN the then CM of Andhra, put an ex-commissioner in race against a veteran politician, to everyone's surprise, the former won over the latter. I am not saying that the winner of that contest is an ordinary man who made a successful entry into politics but is an educated man like you and me, is not a member of any of the groups like you and me. So there is a hope for people like you and me. For sure, even today joining a political office is not as easy as it sounds for anyone- educated, elite etc. But two to three decades from now, who knows?? There might be more openings for the educated in the political offices. I might be interested too...
A lot of people around the globe turn a blind eye to politics or hate it. I think this is partly because of the way politics or politicians are presented in the cinema and partly because everyday a politician or two is in the news for bad reasons in one or the other corners of the world. I was thinking may be this perspective could be changed, if this art or science of governing is taught in colleges/universities like any other profession. I know few colleges teach political science but till date haven't heard of any politician who majored in it or any political science major, whose ambition is to join politics. May be a department in Univs, in which the final destination of the enrolled students is to join a political office. Just as the prospective medicos are trained by the practicing doctors, law students by the professional lawyers, the future politicians should be nurtured by the incumbent and/or ex-politicians in universities.
Back home (so far) politics is for people from political families or people with a community backup or silver or small screen stars or sports (I mean Cricket) personalities or filthy rich industrialists or local Godfathers. If not associated with these groups and happen to contest in the elections, then forget your deposit. Lately, this trend seems to be changing and there are some encouraging signs. In '99, CBN the then CM of Andhra, put an ex-commissioner in race against a veteran politician, to everyone's surprise, the former won over the latter. I am not saying that the winner of that contest is an ordinary man who made a successful entry into politics but is an educated man like you and me, is not a member of any of the groups like you and me. So there is a hope for people like you and me. For sure, even today joining a political office is not as easy as it sounds for anyone- educated, elite etc. But two to three decades from now, who knows?? There might be more openings for the educated in the political offices. I might be interested too...
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