DNA effect in politics
The local political analysts hardly brief the citizens about the DNA effect in politics (as noticed between parents and children). Dynasty rules have both positive and negative effects--Bangladeshis are familiar with it.
In India, the positive side is struggling to retain the flavour, with Rahul Gandhi trying to keep the flag flying. The Mogul rulers modernised governance in a Hindu-majority subcontinent for around five centuries. DNA effect fall-outs are both positive and negative; and the time-scale is long.
Both Pakistan and Bangladesh suffered from birth handicaps: build up a newborn country (central government) in a new capital (site) -two generations have noted the after-effects since 1947. The British Indian Empire lasted for about two centuries; after a long foundation work. We all are still reeling from the Partition effect.
Bangladesh had another handicap: it got liberation in mere nine months-rather premature; considering decades of civil wars witnessed in other countries.
The have-not attitude has to go; but the political leaders are not leading in the right direction. The social and moral reforms have been sidetracked; so we could not take off at the expected rate of growth.
Societies are also affected by DNA influence. The weaknesses of the DNA effect has caused a silent revolution lately -- the need for change. Imagine an unknown person becoming the most powerful man on Earth in less than a decade.
The political masters have to pay serious attention to public feedbacks; to reduce the communication gaps between the governors and the governed (at different vertical and horizontal levels). Western concepts of democracy have to be filtered for practical application in the Eastern world (and the third world).
We are waiting for the emergence in Bangladesh of a Mandela, Obama, Mahathir, Lee Kwan or Mahatma Gandhi.
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