Civil society.

I find the arguments currently doing the rounds that one has to enter politics to talk about issues affecting the nation , hilarious.

Is there seats in legislatures and the executive for half a billion population?Every Amar ,Akbar and Antony's favourite past time in the length and breadth of this country,be it a bustling metropolitan city or a remote village ,is to talk about politics.

The only difference between them and me and few others is that we have the means to let know the world at large [if they are interested] through a contraption that connects to a crawling web and maybe posses a higher degree of writing and communicating skills ,whilst millions don't.

And what is this coinage 'civil society'? By its very definition it seems to imply that there is another society,viz-criminal society and is further suggestive, that whilst criminal society is free to discuss politics ordinary citizens classified as 'civil society' are decent and there fore shouldn't babble and dabble in this quagmire!This indirectly vouchsafes the criminalisation of politics .

Granted that things can be done and laws passed only by political power .How ever it is also the sole discretion of politicians to either pay attention wholeheartedly or turn a deaf ear completely ,to demands made by articulate sections of the 'Civil society' ,instead of throwing gauntlets every now and then as well as trying every trick in the book to shackle and gag us.