The Quiet Monarchy

In most countries if you open the morning newspapers unless there is a major natural disaster or a major terrorist activity you would normally have at least one headline where the country’s head would have made some comment. The comment could be either about the economy or political situation or what-have-you. This is true for most countries and when I came to the gulf it was more so. In Dubai surely every day morning you would get to know what Sheikh Mo has said or done.

Here in Kuwait, strangely things are different. You hardly read about what the Emir has to say, The press has hardly anything to talk about them. In fact the press coverage of the monarchy is extremely limited. I am not sure whether this is by chance or by design. Not that it affects me but sometimes I do wonder if the local countrymen need direction from the leadership, who would they look up to? In India we of course could land up having enough debates about our Political Kings and that’s healthy. Here we don’t seem to talk about them at all. Neither do they!! Sphere: Related Content