A divide without borders

A divide without borders
Karthik voiced his amazement as we drove to the guest house from Tegel Airport. Any visitor to Berlin would first be struck by the graffito. It obviously is an expression of protest. With five million people unemployed the German nation is sure going through a horrendous crisis. Neo-liberalism being the culprit is just one aspect. But the scarier part is that even after 15 years of re-unification, the people stand divided. That is the bigger challenge.
If one reads spiegel.de there are many tongue-in-cheek references to the east and the problems of politicians to come to grips with these former communists.
Here's another one from Spiegel: In the East, the Vote Is Anybody's Guess
So for those who are following the German elections it is all so funny, the floods, the silly attire of Angela Merkel and the come-back-kid Gerhard Schröder. But for a more informed assessment of the situation you might have to learn a whole lot of German, and, tougher still, really hunt for a newspaper web site that takes the plight of the German people more seriously. That's not very different from what is happening in India.