Distaste for politics builds within us from looking at people debating ridiculously on TV, shouting and going INSANE over PETTY topics. And so, our distaste blossoms. And this distaste of ours towards politics manifests itself in many ways, like putting our status of political views on Facebook as ‘Not interested in politics’, or ‘I hate politics’, or even as ‘Don’t know what that rubbish is’.

Now, we should know what we really mean when we say, “I hate politics.”

Actually, when we dig a little deeper into that statement and in what context it is said, then we find that what we really want to say and what we actually mean is that we hate politicians. As for politics, many of us do not know what it is actually.

Politics has got a ton of connotations over the years which are mostly negative. And this is QUITE understandable, of course, given the level that politics has been made to stoop down to in our country. Politics is OFTEN considered as a filthy practice of cunning people. It has almost become synonymous with corruption, polarisation and crookedness, all at the same time. Of course the politicians play all these dirty games to GAIN power. But are these the only things that politics can yield? Aren’t there any positive sides to politics? The common belief on it is quite dispiriting