Barack Who???
today morning my driver stefen greeted me by saying "Obama won!" The smile on his face immediately caught on my face too and i wished him congratulations. Apparantly he had not slept the entire night and was watching the campaign coverage. though i had expected this but this was still incredible. He lost the senate race in 2000 and won for the first time in 2004 and within 2-3 years was standing for presidency and what.... he won it! Like most ordinary mortals of the world, I could not help being enamoured by the american Presidential election. Its such an elaborate and expensive affair ( $2 bn estimated this time around)! First you got to get through the primary ( and that can be daunting if you have hillary as your opponent) and then you seek your major opponent stretching almost 2 years. However the quality of debates is astounding and decent. I try to compare any debate in our parliament (leave alone some old timers like vajpayee etc) and realization of the hopelessness...