Saturday, August 27, 2011

Celebrated Delusions…




“Do not use mobile phones at this instance, keep your seatbelts fastened, don’t smoke blah blah blah and be seated”. The aircraft was about to take off. Cabin crew was preparing for take-off. I’s seated on 1F (THE window seat :) ) and both 1E and 1D were left unoccupied still. And then he entered… him, a white kurta-pajama clad man in his sixties…kind of people we’ve learned to hate these days…talking loudly over his blackberry..."thik hai, is Vishay me adhyaksh se baithak karke he antim nirnay liya jaega" and then he switched his phone off…I continued reading my novel while he dozed off…And then that neurotic neural activity got kick started in my mind… which is continuing in midst of crowd chanting slogans and in episodes, with each passing day of Anna Hazare’s fast…

In the quicksand of events all around me in NCR and all over India, all those concepts of democratic republic have sucked down, down into incomprehensible puzzlement …
 
Anna is INDIA…Anna is GANDHI…Anna is ANDHI…Anna, we are with you…

He is a neutron bomb…he really is…producing more neutrons…triggering a chain reaction…encroaching and invading the supreme symbol of sovereignty… THE Parliament… whose so called representatives have given away its public image as of no more than a mere symbol of subjugation after the great leaders arrest… demoing overtly the right part of Fundamental Rights…asking for an espousal of our own true freedom in the real sense of it…people are becoming a fan of his genuineness …getting inspired by his passion…have started believing in the very idea of emancipation...and after his eventual win…everyone is delighted, celebrating…it’s time to party…All Smiles… :)
Only thing is...What’s important? The End??? or the Means??? We won…yes…but watching the proceedings on Lok Sabha channel, listening to the speeches made by all party leaders, I think we could all clearly hear the unsaid portions of their opinion on the bill…"So now anybody can warn THE Parliament of fasting till death and we’ll HAVE TO pass any random bill, that too differentiated across multiple draft versions, in a jiffy, just like that??? Ridiculous…But still I and my party will support the bill with all three conditions laid by Mr. Hazare. Period. We are left with no other option anyways. Period. Please now plan some disaster-aftereffects-management strategy."

Its pending with the standing committee anyways and another drama is yet to be witnessed on Rajya Sabha channel also...

We still don’t know whether the bill will be finally passed in the same draft as suggested by Anna and even if it will, how well Anti corruption legislation can work in a country suffering from corruption for as long as 64 years…But it’s a clear win and we ARE all celebrating and we should and we wish Anna a good recovery and a healthy long life ahead…

Only thing is, we never thought we’ll have to fight another war of independence, that somebody will have to suffer like Gandhi Ji again, students will have to return degrees again and we’ll have to stuff jails again in protest of those WE ELECT, every five years… Kiran Bedi is right, Anna has become India, we are happy about it…but we thought India is a democratic country where legislature is made by representatives elected by people, so in effect, by people themselves…or atleast that’s what we still teach our kids in schools…