Tlahuicole, you are right... Even I don't watch the news for more than 5 minutes.... Instead prefer to watch National Geographic, Discovery or Travel & Living.
News is so very negative.... and mostly about murder, rape, robbery, corruption... And what other news we have as election approaches.?
Free laptop
Free mobile
Free loans (write offs)
Free houses
Free electricity
Free money (aadhar)
Free Mixers - Grinders
Free Fans
Free bus travel
Free cycles
Free education.
Free water
Free medical
Free food
Free sewing machine
Free pilgrimage to religious shrines
Well after six decades of independence, we do not have proper roads, or even in large city of the country there are 4-8 hours power cut each day! And there are villages that even now are in complete darkness! Instead of giving 'free' (most of which is looted in between) we are still being promised more goodies in each election. Do the politicians tell us that to provide for 'freebies' where they are going to get the money, and how much tax they will increase?
We are a nation that set up base in Antartica for exploration, send satellites into space, produce nuclear energy.... What a contradiction.
I hope next time during elections, we vote with conscience... for the most honest person, and not the most popular one.
Yeah, I stopped watching tv news because of politics in India, everywhere it has its impact. A tamil poet once said "If there is a shortage of food for one single man in the world, we should destroy the world."
One more thing is I am a history freak, I like to learn all types of ancient and medieval history theories. During Akbar's reign there was no place in his empire called as orphanage. Even Akbar's ancestors came from afganisthan to conquer India but look at their view, they brought us a new religion a new life.
But there were colonist countries, even english troops did not like themselves to conquer and destroy other nations, but their leader was interested in the loot. This greed is the cause of all evil. India is filled with greed now. Once there was a ruler in south india called Rajendra Chozhan, he was famous for his warrior spirit and general tactics. He conquered burma and sri lanka but did not loot those nations,
What is my final point?
"we had leaders who didn't even want to loot the neighboring country, now we have leaders who desperately want to loot their own country."
God save India.