The Only Choice

It wouldn’t be surprising if one considered us to be the living dead for not taking steps to enroll oneself, so that we can exercise our voting right. The jaagore campaign and the new “Shut Up and Vote” song may be just the right tune to spur the Indian youth into action this time around. After all, that is our only choice to bring about the desired change in this organized mess, which incidentally is also the largest democracy in the world.
It is another matter that we have several parties deploying paid volunteers for party work. With elections coming up, one always witnesses allegations and counter-allegations, mud-slinging, muck-raking at all time highs. In short, the state of controlled chaos gets worse, and things get pretty ugly during election times.

It is also that time of the year when news channels beam our political leaders deliver high-pitch speeches aimed to hit opponents below the belt, figuratively speaking. Election analysts, or (Psephologists, as they are called), would have a field day providing the low-down on high-scoring candidates. You may think this is old news, but the heated discussions and debates on national channels will get shriller and shriller until you begin to love the sound of silence. I gather the election commissioner has debarred channels from airing exit polls, as they could influence the decision of voters, especially considering that the polls are scheduled in four phases across the length and breadth of our country.

These “experts” had been conducting such exit polls during past elections and portraying their findings as representing exact estimates of the results, ignoring the constant variable feature of such a narrow exercise based on insufficient sample size and unreliable responses from voters, who may act naturally, but mislead one and all. There being no obligation on the part of the surveyed individual to indicate truthfully the candidate of his choice. This uncertainty and unreliability of such an exercise has been the constant variable in such exercises, which have been purposefully ignored by the clever fools peddling poll-time excitement for viewers, with an eye on TRP, of course.

With our neighbouring countries are on the brink of a civil war, we may not need the thrill of a reality shows if action on this front hots up. I could go on pointlessly this way… but what am I getting at? Why am I writing about election time when that is not my forte?

Well, this post is about Oxymorons!

Oxymoron is not a moron put on oxygen,
Oxymoron is when contradicting words combine to form a meaningful phrase or term

For example,
1. Virtual reality
2. Original copy
3. Jumbo shrimp
4. Bitter sweet
5. Plastic glasses
6. Wooden iron
7. Same difference

I could have simply listed all these oxymorons, but it is an open secret that I hate lists! I am terribly pleased to inform you that I have written articles demonstrating the use of color phrases in the same way. I love to demonstrate usage by constructing sentences which actually make sense!

Whatnonsanz making sense? Moronic or Oxymoronic?
If honest lawyer is listed as an oxymoron, now then does clean politics deserve a mention too?

More Oxymorons listed here

And here.

Blogger’s Post-Script: I hope ke aapko mera post thoda bahut pasand aaya ho. My favourite Hindi oxymoron is “thoda bahut”!