'Hello Dr.'

It has been a real long time since I talked to myself over this cyber space. One thing that has really interested me in this cyber property of mine is the fact that I get to read my mind here, even long after the thoughts have struck me and translated into words. You might then ask me why I haven’t blogged for quite a long time. Well, I was bogged down with other stuff that took to the driver’s seat that I had very little time for some self-retrospection. It’s been close to two long years, and a lot have moved around me. I am now in the US doing my masters at SUNY, Binghamton, NY. Over the last two years, you could say, a considerable time was spent on preparation to get to this place as well as sustaining my life here! Well more on my life in the US as a later blog, for now let’s get to business.

I am today overwhelmed by the honorary doctorate awarded to M.K. Stalin. Really guys, no sarcasm intended (please read otherwise, I am sure you will ;-)). In the line of great men who have received a doctorate by either pursuing research or having lived themselves for genuine reasons, this award comes as a big surprise. Yes friends, a real surprise in the sense that this has come very late considering the fact that actors like Vijay have been awarded this much earlier!! I am still wondering how come we, the citizens of India, still stand applauding to such political comics that continue. Now the tactics of promoting this ‘Dr.’ up the political ranks to a specially crafted position of a Deputy Chief Minister becomes obvious. More is sure in stock.

My mind flies off to a similar incident of creating a totally new position of the Deputy Prime Minister a few years back, and that time it was at the center of a so called democratic nation. Well, people (read as ‘influential’ politicians, since there are more timid and placid ones in the form of our present PM!) tend to use their position and power for rewriting the democratic rule. I have spent a lot of lengthy ‘office-tea-hours’ discussing why Vijay was awarded a doctorate. He is after all an entertainer who acts to make his daily living. I have watched Vijay movies, and have no comments to pass at this point of time (probably we could take it as a totally different blog).

I personally believe that there should be an unbiased body of intellects who scrutinize these candidates before the prestigious doctorate is awarded to them. After all, we should not be looking to belittle the intelligence of other deserving ‘Dr.s’.