It is complicated. Everybody in India nowadays complains about the political inaction, nepotism, corruption in politics and so on. But when it is our party or political leader who is doing it then we do not express any outrage. This is nothing but partisan politics.

But I was extremely surprised that no one even raised a voice of protest against such harsh words.

Maybe it reflects the fact that people are becoming too accommodating – which gives further boost to morale of such people. This is setting a really bad precedent.

The media in India are “for profit” organizations. They say and print things that their audience wants to hear or read. If Narendra Modi becomes the Prime Minister of India then you will see Congress Party supporters make similar complaints.

In addition the English media is “national” in nature and they try to appeal to educated middle class Indians from all sorts of backgrounds. It would not make sense for them business wise to talk about a polarizing figure like Narendra Modi.

You will see a very different view of Narendra Modi if you follow the local media particularly the Hindi language media in the North.

The argument here is not to keep ones mouth shut. Just the opposite. Indians have every right to hold the UPA government and its leaders like Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh accountable for their actions. As you said corruption in the past is not a valid excuse for corruption now.

But we have to remember a couple of things. Democracy is a two way street. The politicians we criticize are themselves elected by us repeatedly and represent millions of us and our interests. In addition the languages that we speak in India are sophisticated and complex and have all the necessary mechanism to express our anguish, anger and frustration in a clear, precise and professional manner. There is no need to use language that is in any way personal or hurtful.

How can someone garner support of others when he/she is willing to use such language to point out that someone else is incompetent?

In general I do not see a downside to respecting someone because of their age. Respect does not necessarily have to mean that you agree with them or you follow their orders or that the older person necessarily cares for the younger persons best interests. It is simply an acknowledgment. You can respect somebody and at the same time treat everybody as equal.

But when you take the taxpayer’s money and mismanage it so vulgarly, keeping one’s mouth shut for decency’s sake is disappointing behavior. I know a lot of people will say, “oh … the whole system is corrupt. It’s not his fault”. He is responsible. He sort of asked for it to be blamed because of his ambitions to be a PM. The PM rightfully has no point to remark against such an attack from Modi.

The old are no less prone to exploit us than the young. And it’s very dubious whether or not age brings wisdom. For our politicians, age seems to have brought cynicism instead.

Showing extra respect to an older person is a fallacy. I think it makes more sense to treat everyone equally irrespective of age in all things.

The people of India will decide come election time on how our Prime Minster and his government are performing. They spoke loudly and clearly about a year ago. The next election is years away. However, I am noticing some bitterness from supporters of the parties that ended up on the losing side two elections in a row.

The criticism of the CWG games is mostly within India. CWG was awarded to New Delhi in 2002 when BJP was in power. Most of the initial planning was done by the NDA government. But I agree that the UPA has bunged this project. But this is the story of India. You exaggerate when you say that India’s image is being hit. India’s image has never been this high in the eyes of the rest of the world since our independence.

Your strategy of blaming the Congress Party for the state of democratic institutions, corruption, status of food grains and asking for a CBI investigation of the Prime Minister will not work. The record of the BJP led governments at the national level and at the state level are not any better. Most Indians like me who are not attached to any particular ideology knows that all this will happen irrespective of the government in power at the center or state level.

I am not surprised that you are unaware of any charges against Narendra Modi!! Please Google “Zakia Jaffri’s charges against Modi” to see the list of charges. These charges are being probed by a Special Investigations Team (SIT) set up by the Supreme Court of India. NOTE: I am not saying that Narendra Modi is guilty of anything. That is up to our judicial system to decide.

I am all for criticism. But let us maintain decorum and be true to our traditions.

Our prime minister can be a silent spectator watching crores of rupees being looted by congresses, food grains being rotten, in spite of spending 40 thousand crores on commonwealth game, we are cutting a sorry figure in front of international community. But our prime minister can not be criticized because he is a learned fellow supported by foreign funded media. On other hand Modi & Gadkari can be abused, all false propaganda can be launch against them.(As the article states Modi himself facing serious charges. Can I know which charges in which court?).Congress has corrupted all institutes which are pillars of Indian democracy wheather it is judicarry, CBI or Media. Isn’t it the responsibility of prime minister to remove corrupt Suresh Kalamadi? Who is stopping him from doing so. Actually CBI should investigate that why a so powerful prime minister of India is not able to remove a single corrupt Guy from the management of common wealth Games. Why he has a blessing of Sonia Gandhi? But no corrupt media will put this question to our PM but rather criticize those who asks such questions.