The recent no-confidence vote and the corresponding events have given me an astounding insight into Indian politics.

I had always known that the Indian Parliament was a fish market. What I had never realized till today is the proper analogy - most of the guys raising the ruckus in parliament were actually the fish being bought and sold - and not, as I believed, the people haggling over fish to buy and sell.

To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. Does this mean that anyone with enough money can run the country? Hey, Bush - you don't even need to wage a war to get all the natural resources here; just spend the money you would have used up to actually win a war. Or Obama, or McCain. Musharraf, even.

A comment I heard on the news is that Indians keep getting used to higher levels of corruption in the government. So I guess this is just something else I must get desensitized to (apart from the violence, crime, attacks, etc. I'm already supposed to be used to). I wonder what we'll be forced to accept next?

The possibilities are endless.

I accept that I'm just raving away - looking only at the problem and not the solution. But right now, I can't think of a solution. If you can - please tell me; or rather - tell the media. At the very least, news channels will have something better to discuss than witch-women discovered in unheard-of villages.