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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Politics and prostitution
Nivedita Menon examines the comparison made by KS Sudarshan, the RSS chief, of politics with prostitution. She writes:
He [Sudarshan] may have a point. What does a “prostitute” do? She offers a specific service, for which she charges a specific sum, and collects payment upon delivering the service. An open and honest transaction. Quite unlike politics, then. And certainly the very opposite of the RSS, whose dishonesty and subterfuge are legendary. By claiming to be a cultural rather than political organization, it controls a political party without ever having to prove its credentials by democratic means. Would the RSS dare to test itself and what it stands for in an election — even an election restricted to Hindus by birth? But then, why should it, when it can hide behind the Bharatiya Janata Party?Read the full piece. I especially like the way it ends.
