Blurb: We elect who we are, but the reality is very disturbing.

The Food and Agriculture Minister, Mr. Sharad Pawar, gets appointed to be head of the International Cricket Council. He boastfully announces that the UPA coalition has given him too much work and therefore they should give him more junior Ministers to do his daily hard work. Meanwhile, food prices have erupted all over the country, now for more than 15 months or so. It has been raining double digit inflation in food, and for some articles, the inflation is above 15 to 20 percent each year for three successive years. In the first year, the government said that they were helpless because world prices of wheat, rice, and peanuts had all exploded because of the nasty shenanigans on Wall Street. True. There was a world crisis and oil had shot upto $ 147 a barrel. We couldn’t and the people didn’t blame the government