Obama-mania: the change rhetoric and its misinterpratation

"Obama mania in US ahead of swearing in": The article by this title flashed on indiatimes, the web arm of the newspaper Times of India(TOI), on reading the article something struck to me. I tried to think over the headlines that I could recall and there were just two things - Obama and Slumdog, from the newspapers of previous one week if not more. I started to think that its not just US but my own country is gripped too by this mania called Obama. Then a thought came to mind that maybe because US is big daddy of world its elections do have a hangover, so for a moment I thought that there is not abnormality. I decided to do a test by myself to check whether mania had got hold of the country or not. I searched the string "Obama" on indiatimes internal search, it gave 261000 results, than I searched "Barack Obama" the results narrowed down to 94100, which was still a very high number. Then I searched for his indian counterpart (as far as power is concerned and not the titular counterpart), and I received just 74200 results for the string "manmohan singh". So our very own PM in spite of being in his position for almost 5 years and featuring in news making events like vote of confidence, nuclear deal, and off course the bypass surgery, was convincingly beaten by Obama who is just 3 days old in office and as far as I can recall had been in Indian news for not more than 18 months. Now if that is not mania than what else will it be called.
My assumption being that media publishes things that people want to read (not necessarily concerns them though), India is in obama mania (though we are officially still not in recession mind you). This is not all, we have Obama's swearing in ceremony as a featured item at various video sharing sites and our very own Indians are watching it too. Few days back I saw various Indian movie stars praising Obama, saying we too want a leader like obama. Suddenly being on Obama's side had become the hottest thing and if you are not on that side, you don't support "change". Suddenly there had been debates, propelling Rahul Gandhi as the ideal candidate for prime ministership (he has not been propelled by the Congress up till now but it is the newspapers that carry this message as the voice of Indian youth). The first question that is asked to Mr.L.K.Advani, the prime ministerial candidate from the side of NDA, during a recent online chat interview is - Don't you think that we need a younger leader like Obama in US. Omar Abdullah's becoming the chief minister is considered as the beginning of the change. Newspapers place Rahul gandhi, Navin Jindal, Sachin Pilot, Milind Deora, Priya Dutt etc as the right people to lead the country(calling them second generation of indian political families will be more appropriate rather than face of young india).
I think we have grossly misunderstood the "change", that the Americans are talking about. Let us remember that Mr.Obama is not the youngest President of America, so it is not the change distinctly related to the "age", rather it is the social change, where a black man won the elections and thereby falsified the believers of Bradley effect (Mr. Shashi tharoor too in one of his articles predicted Mr.Obama's loss on the basis of this effect). Some people believe that we can say that we have achieved the change similar to what US presently has, if some Dalit becomes a PM. I think the believers of this thought are the ones who had taken Ms Mayawati's dream of becoming PM too seriously. We should remember that Dr.K.R.Narayana was a dalit too and had held the highest office of the country for full term. Mr.Obama in his address said - ".....I whose grandfather was denied travel in train, is taking the most revered oath......." (forgive me If it was food at the resturent which his forefather was denied and not the train travel, as I remember the essence and not the exact wordings) If we see presently than it is the people of poor India, the section which forms half of the population who have become socially outcast, not because of their actual cast or religion rather because of their economic limitations. There are millions of people living on pavements, whose daily diet is less nutritious than our one time meal. They don't know about Obama nor do they hope for change. The day when someone amongst them will become the primeminister than I think we should have said that a similar change has occurred. Although I am not a pessimist but still I think that none of us will see this change in our lifetimes so till than we should be just satisfied by understanding Obama change as the change of age, so Lucknow people can now elect Sanjay Dutt to replace Atal Vihari Vajpayee. I guess the Delhi voters must be wondering that they missed the opportunity of "change" as had put back the grand old lady of Delhi back in CM office in spite of she being slightly older than V.K.Malhotra (or is she younger !!!!)