An Open letter to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam from the Common Man of India June 17, 2012 Dear Dr. Kalam, Greetings from me, the common man, trying to live a simple life of dignity, across the length and breadth of this country, despite the heaviest of odds stacked against me! It is my guess that as I write this, you are watching with some amusement the twists and turns of the race to the Rashtrapati Bh avan. I am amused too, but in a cynical, sickly kind of way. Not that I expected any better from the people who populate this country’s Parliament and political party offices (after all, I am the reason they are there in the first place), but I was hoping against hope that there might be some dignity left at the bottom of the barrel. Alas, I was wrong! And so the amusement has quickly turned to nausea. And though I am a diehard optimist, who tries to detect a silver lining in any cloud, I am fast wearing of the situation our politicians are plunging this country into. An...
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