(by Mallika Sherawat via HuffPost)
I may have been the envy of a billion Indians when I met President Obama recently in Los Angeles, even more so when I met him a second time at the White House Correspondents Dinner — but who am I to gloat?
No matter how the approval polls waver in the U.S., the American president continues to be a rock-star in the rest of the world. I try my best to understand the opposition to him here stateside as well as of those people who promote conspiracy theories about him, and to acquaint myself more with his politics I recently visited a site called WhatTheFuckHasObamaDoneSoFar.com and thought to myself, “Wassup with you people??” It’s all there. The guy’s done a good amount of work. Imagine how much more he could do without obstructionism!
When I asked an American friend recently if they thought there was any way Obama would lose his bid for reelection, she quipped, “No way. There’s no one that can beat him. And besides, we gave Bush 8 years to wreck the country the least we can do is give Obama a second term to continue to fix it.”
My country, India, may be the world’s largest democracy (with a hella lot more than 2 political parties that gain seats in government — even a democratically elected communist state government!) but we are not without our problems. There’s been a fair amount of news in India lately about corruption issues, so much so that a politician named Anna Hazare recently became a hero for “pulling a Gandhi” and publicly fasting until anti-corruption legislation got fast-tracked. Millions of people stood behind him and his efforts got results.
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Mallika Sherawat.
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Mallika Sherawat.
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Mallika Sherawat.
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Mallika Sherawat.
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Mallika Sherawat.
