The recent strike of employees of Tamil Nadu state, the firm and decisive action by the government, the mature and sober judicial pronouncements on the issue, the eventual capitulation of the erring employees, and the emergence of an unlikely hero in Ms. Jayalaitha hold important lessons for our polity.Over the years, politics acquired a pejorative connotation in India. Most decent and honest citizens have begun to despise the political process and shun politics. This distaste soon expanded to rejection, and mindless and intemperate criticism of all political decision-making.
