It ain't over till the fat lady sings

What a roller coaster ride the ruling dispensation had in Indian politics for the last five years or so. Brashness and arrogance got redefined while humility was almost contempt. Prime ministerial body language and actions were heralded as the much needed fill up for the economy and for the country’s foreign relations.

Every day we were told to interpret words and meanings differently, and those who thought they knew better were made to grind the dust. New words were coined such as Urban Maoist. Anyone who even had a single vein in support was vilified and shredded beyond one’s own imagination.

Rights got stomped and stamped over and over again. Ideas that were alien were embraced quicker and more fondly by the new generation, and everyone found that added new vigor in their lives. Every step seemed bouncier and dominating- nay intimidating.

Lies were repeated in a manner so profound that truth ran for cover. Many of us lapped these lies as universal and gospel truth and in a manner a cat would her milk, so much so that we started to sing halleluiahs in support. Defiance and boldness were things of the past. Now the new India was domineering and everything that lay in its past was kicked aside with gay abandon.

Important institutions and people fell over each other to proclaim support to views that were stunningly pre historic and lacked scientific credence. Why even science was mocked and booed into submission. People started telling us how we were once a great civilization where plastic surgery, rockets, missiles, etc. were prevalent, manufactured and used in abundance for the world to learn from us and gain progress.

Rockets that we sent could never fail, it had to land on all four though in a tilted position. This fact we learned from the head of our space mission, a man we cling to for every word of our space progress. It is another thing that this Lander in a tilted version has since not been seen by the orbiter or by NASA’s roving eye on the moon.

Rapists and looters would be anointed clean and holy once they joined a particular political front. Our only inhibition was with a particular religious community and a neighbouring country. Everything that kept us back and hindered our progress was because of these two hunches. The mess we are in is because our founding forefathers could not thing right, why even the constitution was a document that is flawed and needs correction very soon.

The amount of money spent on foreign visits and the numerous instances of foreign travel by the head of government cries out for attention. Funny then, that some people have termed our Prime Minster as the first NRI Prime Minister the country has ever had since he is seen less in our country than overseas. The little occasions he is seen in our country he is busy campaigning for his political outfit as if he is the head of his party and not that of the country.

We are now more prone to speaking our thoughts rather than listening to people’s pulses. It has been established that he conquers wherever he goes and whatever he sets his sight on, is his for the asking. Utterances overseas are drafted to discredit the opposition. He does not like the word opposition; to ideas, to his thinking; his words, or even as a political outfit that is deemed as a necessary democratic tool.

Anyone who does not adhere to this fixed line deserves to be annihilated from history books. Even history books need to be rewritten- rewritten from MY perspective not OURS. It is necessary for history to be rewritten because then only the young will be patriotic. History has to be rewritten so that we are hailed as the greatest nation that every lived on this planet, even though we may have lost our soul as a nation in the process.

Farmers can tear their hair since they do not constitute much to the growth of this country. Any growth had to be shepherded by the big guns in the industry for whom the red carpet is brushed and kept ready every day. Their misdemeanors are pardoned and their sins wiped clean off the slate. Figures that were in the red turn black almost instantly overnight at the stroke of a dictate.

Unemployment is something that we can do without only if the youth looked at so many alternative avenues for employment. Watching your father cut hair in a saloon is also employment since you are employed in a time consuming manner. The monitoring authorities have got their figures wrong so they should not be published. Imagine the country’s misfortune at having had these morons for the last seventy years.

Employment relates to time spent not gainful occupation. If you are able to spend your time while daylight prevails you are employed doesn’t matter if you have been fiddling with the keys on your smart phone or whether you gain anything out of this venture or even if the gain translates to nothing. And why does everyone talk about money?

Wasn’t money demonetized to make way for our overall progress? What is two basis points fall in GDP so long as it caters to ones flawed thinking. Insistence on this thinking may get us into a corner, but that’s all right we have waited for seventy years to put this thinking into practice; now is our time and please do not fret, what is all this hullabaloo, even China is facing tough times.

We will win the world not by mathematics, not by plotting facts and figures but by sheer nationalism. Hard work and working the facts is a distant second to jingoism. We shall brook no interference to this methodology. We will insist on putting people behind bars and working the courts to ensure that they remain there as long as possible, because we don’t like opposition. This way we are able to put the fear of being singled out, into the opposition.

We have won elections over and over again; in fact we have taken the dumb population for granted. It is not the population who decides but our strategy and policies with a touch of manipulative practices for the betterment of the people. If people were to decide for themselves why are we there? What are we trying to achieve? Anything the population wants must stem out of our ideas, they cannot have theirs because they are not as accomplished as we are, as our thinking.

But hey what is this? What has become of our election machinery? Our apt thinking, our well oiled electioneering mechanisms, our pointed quotes our brazenness, our brashness rolled into a magic balm for the populace. Why have we fared below expectations, what has become of our targets?

Has the people awakened from their slumber, are they contesting our decisions and our inheritance? Our outstanding provocations- all because they are not finding jobs, not being able to sustain, but isn’t that the price we must pay to achieve a five trillion economy?

Has the opposition slowly started to get up on their feet, have they been able to withstand the onslaught of our talent, haven’t we been able to stamp out every shoot of the mighty Congress party as promised?

Well, hold your horses for it ain’t over till the fat lady sings.