BEFORE SUNRISE

(Chapter no. 2010, concluding lines…)

Once upon a time in a country, there was no ‘legal’ procedure to fight the accidental fires. On spotting a fire, everybody used to run with containers of water and it was usually controlled. But soon a ‘Societies registration rule’ was enacted and special fire-fighting agencies were registered for this purpose. The agencies would get annual government aids for their efforts. Fortunately, a year passed when no fire was reported. But unfortunately, it was time for the agencies to get a renewal of aids. They were denied. Reason, they did ‘apparently nothing’ during the last financial year. So in order to sustain the relevance of their existence, the fire-fighters got transformed to fire-igniters.

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Same is the story of today’s combatant leaders. Some career oriented leaders are doing painless efforts to let every problem to be unsolved eternally. Should we thank God to have some legendary leaders who tried to revive the tradition of establishing the triumph of truth through fasts as assumed earlier by Gandhi Ji and Bhagat Singh? Well, we should not forget that giving opium to a child crying for milk does temporarily solve the problem. The unsung tragedy of India is that nobody here goes to the root cause. Trim the dead leaves and you are done.  Moreover, thanking God may be called a communal-act. Leave it.

Speaking of communal, how are BJP and Congress? Doing well na? Who says India is passing through a ‘demonocracy’? And who says ‘whipocracy’ is a staple food supplement for it? Should the speaker be awarded of telling a truth? Also, when constituents of NDA or others who disrupt the strategic basic functions of the government like running a parliamentary session they should morally accept the accountability of the big losses and delays in other important administrative works.

Heard the slogan, mandir vahi banaenge? BJP seems to play the forgotten-flute trying to devise the same old pied-piper formula as it did in early 1990s. Be cautious. Be nationalist. But count your rats before they fall off a peak of idealism. 

We all know that in the day time, the crow kills the owl and at night the owl kills the crow. Same is the story of Indian political leadership, elections, mandates and the anti-incumbency traditions. JD(U) seems to demystify this trend. Its like development has prevailed in Bihar. At least Bihar will not go through the routine of mass-transfers, deserting old plans, converse policies and wastage of money and resources due to formation of (useless) investigation committees on earlier governments.

The flooded river of corruption seems to shift its path closer to the blossomed tree of our nation’s development. It may loosen the foundations as it has earlier done. Chanakya has said, “If the people are prosperous, even a leaderless state can be governed”. But in a country where the scams like 2G spectrum, Adarsh Housing and CWG worth more than 1 lakh crores are common news, a poor citizen may feel pretty nervous. When the big looters are enjoying foreign trips and relaxing holidays in their farmhouses, a rickshaw puller would feel cheated, guilty and also unsafe at the same time while bribing even Rs. 10 to a hawaldar for parking his vehicle at a road-side to have a lunch or something. The hawaldar may refuse anytime and increase his value like the accustomed rise in petrol rates. When we have separate hospitals, schools, colonies and hotels for rich and poor, why not the government departments and even hawaldars? One for rich, other for poor!

Moving ahead, the Kashmiri youth has found a new talisman. Throw stones, get heard. What may have metamorphosed them into the avatar of stone-throwers? Who is provoking them?

A big cage in a zoo had the signboard declaring ‘Living in togetherness’ and visitors could in fact see the sheep and the wolves living peacefully together, playing with rejoice. On investigating the issue with a zoo-worker he revealed, “We put few new sheep into the cage every night.” May it be the separatists of Kashmir or other states, naxal-problem or the grand-scam masters, if the government seems to follow appeasement, be inactive or keeps mum, one should think of the probable missing sheep in the scenario. Further, an inactive good person is very dangerous.

Our PM is a strong man. He should take bold decisions at this time of chaos. Somebody should dare to remind him that the swans stay at a place as long as there is water. They abandon it when it dries up and come back when there is again water. But the angels never leave it. He should differentiate between the selfish swans and the angels amongst his alliance partners.

The oral witchcraft and assaults interpreting ‘rahiman jihvaa baavari’ in a wrong way by every single stuffed parantha being served for our eyes, ears and specially the inner craze to gloomy issues on the idiot-box are the newcomers in the entertainment-menu. May it be BIG-BOSS or Rakhi’s ‘har jhooth aur sach ka faisala’(would not use the word insaaf), the audience’s negative appetite is brim-full. It may spill out now. Indulged in sensational talks about a self-made judge declaring somebody as namard without any medical evidence, do we have any time to think about other games (behind games) being played by our babus and netas? The year 2010 may be memorized as the ‘year of game, shame and frames’ for India.

The leaders of all five permanent UN security-council members visited India in 2010. The world seems to be moving quite fast. We have to uphold ourselves in the league or even lead it.  In the era of Wiki and other leaks, even media, the 4th pillar of democracy should undergo a refining process, beware of the ever replicating virus of Paid-news syndrome and be mature.

Our so called leaders keep on throwing mud on faces of others. It seems like the pirates are fighting for booty (looted maal).  When rulers seem to be like lion, leaders like tigers and the bureaucrats like vultures, the nation gets perished. Almost everybody seems to be trying to win the contest of the BIG LOOT CHALLENGE, at ‘India’s wealth and resource bazaar’. But the optimistic who sings in enthusiasm ‘baaki magar hai ab tak, naamo nishaan hamara’ still has a hope.

The darkest hours of night are ones that are closest to sunrise. Let’s welcome a new morning, cleanse ourselves from in and out and get ready to our learning realms. Let’s open Chapter No. 2011, page 1 with eyes wide open. But check out whether we have reviewed our course and syllabus yet? Any CCE? Summative? Formative? Or both?

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