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Electoral Reforms suggestion

Political parties, the big ones, always have the advantage of being one of the few alternatives for the electorate to vote. For example, even if ADMK in TN is voted out of power in an election, they know that they have a good chance in the next election due to the "TINA" factor. (There is no alternative). One of the main things that I want to suggest in this post is that if we fire a servant or employee for non-performance, there is an almost zero chance that we will rehire him, but in the electoral scenario due to the TINA factor, we have to go back to the earlier ousted party if we want to vote the current government out of power. This made me think of some outlandish and outrageous reforms as below: If a party is voted out of power, the party and the ministers and the MLAs who were part of the government are banned for the next 2 elections, which gives chances for others to form the government than any one of the parties of the de facto 2-party system in many states. This ...

Why I blog ?

 Hi,  Blogging back after a long time, around a couple of months, I guess. Why I blog? As the title of my blog site goes, it's just for you, the reader. When I want to get some distraction or relax a bit in my office hours, I tried to look for sites like news sites, which often end up making me worse off than before thanks to all the bad things that are shown in news. I chanced upon this guy noenthuda.com site and saw that he blogs regularly, and he is an IIT IIM guy and posts interesting thoughts related to work, society, intellectual ideas etc. They are good and light to read and don't stress you and you can get the required distraction, and he has been doing for 19+ years. So, I thought, why not do that, share my thoughts with the world and if it helps even a few in whatever way, I have achieved my purpose. Hence the title, Just for you! Another silly advantage of blogging is that (if you are blogging about your life events) you are always the protagonist or hero of the sto...