"Arrey... Kamaal hai".. how often would we have used this phrase, and more in concatenation with another phrase "Ek to chori, oopar se seenajori"..... But then who would go and tell this to the CM of Maharashtra, "Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh" Who has, who had the audacity to take his entourage for a terror tourism trip at the scene of Taj carnage and massacre.
How on earth could he think of tagging along his good-for-nothing son, Ritesh (now spelled as Riteish, to bring good luck to his doomed career; which unfortunately would now be doomed forever if the people of India excercise their disposition) and the equally good-for-nothing director Ram Gopal Verma to the scene which would have witnessed the biggest and the most horrendous terror attack on the country.
Jo kiya, so kiya but at the end of it all, how boldly he is making statements "Arrey Kamaal hai.... we gave you the footage on goodwill and you are stretching things..... (or something of the sorts, but Arrey kamaal hai is what I am sure of)" One look at the face of the beloved CM during his recent press conference would have cleared us of any doubts of his love and respect for fellow citizens.
Did I write "Fellow Citizens"..... guess no politician in this god-foresaken country would be considering the aam aadmi even close to that term. To them we are the lesser mortal beings and in bade bade sheheron mein to yeh chhote chhote haadse hote hi rehte hain.
Wonder what the Patils and the Deshmukhs would have to say if their residence or the Mantralaya would have been the focus of the attack. That being the case, this would have been another big attack on the democracy of this country, after the Parliament attack. And did I say "Democracy".... did someone not tell these demigods of the society that democracy is a system of governanceof the people, by the people, for the people....... Wish at least some of our politicians had not been the school dropouts then this much sense would have prevailed!!!!! Not that those who have degree from the Howard and Cambridge Universities of the world are doing some wonders..... Bhai kamaal hai!!!!
Righteous anger Kiddo, But tell me, what are we, "educated" people doing?
ReplyDeleteThe way I see it, we have become trapped in the vicious cycle of blame gaming. We do not want to appropotion work, we only want to appropotion blame.
India is a democracy, and a democracy needs "leaders" ( lets set aside teh actual meaning of teh word for a while and just use it as a lable for people who wear khadi and hold offices in our governance system). So, if we "educated" lot do not take up the role of "leaders" the resulting vaccume will be filled by the scum of society. there is nuthing surprising there.
Oh did I mention, some among the "educated" lot do not even have voter I cards, and even if they do, think its just another Photo -ID, not a reminder to go an vote this scum out!
PS; as kid I wanted to be PM of India. Well, my teacher laughed and told me to try for a "real" profession... that ia all that I need to say I guess...
Shuchi,
ReplyDeleteDo you seriously believe there is scope for the "aam admi" to become a leader in the system?
Even if we assume that a normal guy/gal like me and you files nomination as an independent, you think there is space left for him in the current design of the electoral system?
Coming to the design, who is going to change that design? Guess for that we again need people from the masses..but then how do these comman people enter the system...
In the good old British Raj...nd the not-so-good Swadeshi Raj, we have the civil services to facilitate this, but then you think an average man like me or a person like you, who may not have the best knowledge of History, or may not fully agree with the Gandhian philosophy would be able to crack the entrance tests for such positions.....
It seems we are living in a society what is revolving in a downward spral!!!
Kiddo,
ReplyDeleteThis is just teh kind of blame appropotioning that I am talking about.
The question is not if there is scope for the "aam admi" to become a leader in the system. The question is, "Does the aam admi care enough to try?"
I do not know if you or I can be a part of the system, if we can become leaders, or civil servants. ( Here I could quote examples of people like Kiran Bedi, or our mutual favourite, APJ.. or teh people I know of, personally,who have " made it" so to speak and are now doing good work in one or more of India's districts.. but i think i wont). As I was saying, I do not know if there is scope of us becoming a part of the system.
But I am not bothered about that. Not as much as I am bothered about the fact that we have accepted the situation and have given up trying. Its is not our inability that is the cause of concern, its our acceptance.
whether we can make a difference or not is secondary. The primary question is, are we, as young Indians that are supposed to be the key to India's golden future, willing to see that there is a need to make a difference? and are we willing to fight to try and make a difference? what worries me, is the "giving up" the " kuch nahi ho sakta" the impotent rage expressed in such columns and forgotten here... empty words, no action.
Politics has become a dirty gutter that we avoid and hold our noses when we encounter. We keep saying "someone needs to clean it up" but none of us are not willing to be that someone.
its not Shiv*** Patil or RR Pa*** or Raj Th******** who make steh worst statements... Its the 2nd standard teacher who asks the student not to dream of being PM and to get a real career..
"Does the aam admi care enough to try"
ReplyDeleteWell this is the question that is the most pertinent in the current context.
I would quote another instance here where the "aam admi" rather an "aam aurat" did try but never succeded.
We were watching a movie, and there could not have been a more ironical movie than Welcome to Sajjanpur for this incident, when suddenly the ligts in the hall went off. It was not just the hall, we realised that there was no electricity in the whole mall. and those were the times when Bangalore and Ahmedabad had just happened.
Everyone got terrified. The manager was summoned but was nowherr to be found.
Soon the guards also started to disappear.
Police was summoned to handle the situation and they somehow, i re-iterate somehow, obliged.
When a woman, a resident of a nearby locality, wanted to lodge an FIR against the management she was told "kya aapko unhone mara hai, kutchh kiya hai? To hum FIR kaise likh sakte hain" and this lady was ready to go to the Police station daily for "haajari"
It did not end there. Someone had called media and we waited for the media. But sadly no-one turned up and we left, still in the state of that dilema which we were tought in "the parable of the sadhu"
God knows when the media came and covered the story. Two days later there was a big article on the third page in TOI which quoted the management saying " there was a small power cut but we managed the situation (or something that summarizes to this)"..... this is just one incident and the "aam Aurat" failed.... you still think tha "aam admi" never tries....
am sure you try at times to bring that change, but its the system that has this "resilience" to change which cuts short our efforts to only lighting candles at the Gateway of India!!!
Kiddo,
ReplyDeleteyou know what .. there were 100s of people in the hall that day, yet only 1 lady tried.
I think things would have been different if even 50% of us would have bothered. But I am ashamed that I am among the 99.9% that did not! and stopped a friend from trying too... ( you know who..)
its deep rooted.. this sense of shame in raising our voice, in protesting, in drawing attention to ourselves... we dont do it ourselves (and consider it a mature response!!) and we dont let others do it either..
things will chnage when 99.9% are like that "aam aurat"...
you know what suchi....
ReplyDeleteI hear the voice of those 99.9% people when I hear of protest marchs being organised... but then it just ends at that... and jisko kehte hian ki "netaon ke kaam pe joo tak nahin rengti"
I think a revolution will come... and as IC would have said
This is the time for a new world order to emerge!