Coronation Party
Barrack Obama's inauguration sends out classic signals as an excellent Public Relations exercise for a purpose (TOI Edit Jan 19). It has all the ingredients to arouse and involve the people by recalling nostalgic sentiments and obeisance to Abraham Lincon, the train journey, widely acclaimed rock concerts and involving multitudes of American people as the stake holders to herald popular dispensation. It will be a grand show of the century, by careful crafting of steps with people at the centre stage.It demonstrates the culmination and fulfilment of a nearly impossible task in putting the first ever non-white man in the White House through overwhelming public choice. India has much to learn from these events. Our inaugural functions smack of kings' durbars and display of bureaucratic presence as if to brow-beat the common man into submission. It is not too late for us to learn, we must take a leaf from the US experience.
A.R.K.Pillai
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