Dedications

So Baba Ramdeo’s indefinite fast has ended in nine days. Never knew indefinite was a period nine days. Prior to him we had Anna Hazare, and we were all made to believe some big magic will happen and India will be rock and rolling. We are definitely rolling in the evil of corruption, which has seeped into every aspect of life. Bribery is a way of life, and there is zilch that can be achieved with a fast. A fast can never fasten cleaning the mess, on the contrary the fast ends faster and the mess gets messier.

Rains in Bombay as with every year, so too this year has created mayhem for the common man, but the NCP found a way out to have its rally by praying at Siddhivinayak temple. So the next solution for monsoon problem, in Mumbai would be praying at Siddhivinayak. Corruption by the Municipal Authorities of Bombay is as old as the existence of the office, so can this be solved by a fast. The problem is one can’t even fast in Bombay as with the floods you end up gulping water. Maybe that’s the reason no one hears of anyone fasting in Bombay.

The Congress has ruled the maximum no. of years from the time we allegedly got Independence, as till today many are confused from what we have got independence. So when the rot is the Congress why not eliminate the root cause. Instead of fasting indefinitely, why can’t people like Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdeo and the many so called revolutionaries educate their millions of follower’s and have them oath not to vote for the Congress indefinitely? Same goes for regional parties like the Shiv Sena or MNS or NCP and the many others in other states. Why can there be no President’s rule and people educated to exercise their need for it?

Will this abolish corruption and create a better India? Maybe no, but then has what is there made a difference? Unfortunately the type of Presidency in India is a puppet performing according to the policies of ruling party at the Centre. Solution maybe having intellectuals for the post of President like Abdul Kalam, and getting retired civil servants, to help in administration, and professionals to head portfolios of finance, various industries, defense, sports etc. We have had ministers for defense, who may have never fired a toy gun in their childhood, and they are made ministers to plan defense strategies? We have had ministers for sports that may have not played any sport or even marbles in their lifetime.

Will we allow somebody to operate us who is not a Doctor, will we allow someone to fly a plane who is not a trained licensed pilot? That is besides the point we have Doctors and Pilots in India who are practicing without the required qualifications. The same is with the politicians. Many don’t even have a decent basic education. We have wrong people to do the right job. Even if there is a right person the power vested in them is so much that it can corrupt. Why not get transparency in their responsibilities. With India being a global IT player wouldn’t have IT not reduced the spate of scams we have seen in the recent past?

Ensuring Congress or any dynastic ruled party never comes into power, does not need an indefinite fast. Instead it needs a definite will and desire which maybe lacking in the common man, but can the uncommon men who want to make a change start here and not make a drama of fasting, as it is only slowing anything that maybe be expected.

What is the fuss about Sushma Swaraj breaking into a dance at a recent protest function condemning the use of force by the government of Baba Ramdeo’s peaceful fast protest against black money?

If you fast and protest peacefully the government has a problem. If you dance and protest the government has a grudge. A protest long ago of sending pink panties to a party that beat girls in a pub was a problem. At that time one of the ministers enquired what the problem was, did they not like the color of the panty? What is the problem now with Sushma Swaraj dancing? Is she too good that she can participate in the reality dance shows?

Farmers are dying of starvation and the government has no problem with that, but if a man wants to fast it is wrong. From the time of independence we have been made to dance by the governments that have ruled us, but if someone wants to dance to protest it is bad. One of the idiot minister (that’s beside the point, all are) enquired if the BJP party to whom Sushma Swaraj belongs is a party of dancers? Well my question is, Nehru was a sex addict and his sexacapades with Lady Mountbaten and his dying with syphilis is public knowledge, so has the genesis of the Congress from screwing literally, come to now screwing the country?

Coming to dancing on the ground where Gandhi’s was cremated. It is better dancing to where he was cremated rather than the hundreds who were burnt alive in the Godhra carnage in Gujarat, which is the land of the Mahatma. A place where he spent his life there hundreds are burnt and it is now history, but dancing where he was cremated is bad, what logic? People sing and dance in worship in temples so that should be more sacrilege then dancing at Gandhi’s memorial ground. The Congress government has anyway banned ladies from dancing in bars in Mumbai where they made a living through a legal entertaining way. The reason for the ban is nefarious activities are planned in dance bars and safety of women were a concern to the government. Delhi the capital of India which is also known as the rape capital, are the rapes happening due to dance bars there?

After Sushma Swaraj’s gig, Omar Abdullah tweets that his father Farooq Abdullah who is a minister is a better dancer than Sushma Swaraj. What’s new about that? All our political leaders are good at everything but running clean governance. Currently we have political leaders who are competing for who is most corrupt, then we have the so called crusaders of eliminating corruption to who can fast longer, we have ministers who compete on the size of their houses, to one having a chair made of gold to seat his valuable rear, then it is competing who can build most amount of statues of themselves or their party founder or their party symbol, or how many city names we can change to the old or original name it was allegedly knows as, and even drag it backward to the dark ages of that period in history.

Leave aside clean governance nothing developmental or futuristic is going to be done by any government in the near foreseeable future. India’s development was never a government based initiative but more business economy driven. Only a paradigm revolutionary change in government with new people and not dynastic politics can bring about the change, and if it can be done by dancing…………..let’s dance.

The crackdown on a peaceful demonstration and the right of every citizen thwarted by the government as if it was raiding a group planning to destabilize the nation, is nothing short of Emergency rule during the draconian Indira Gandhi’s time. This time it was a demonstration by Baba Ramdeo. I personally am not for or against Baba Ramdeo’s agitation. What I am against or surprised is at the government’s action on a peaceful agitation.

Has not a citizen a right to express his displeasure on something wrong, in a peaceful manner? What does one do when the system fails? What does one do when there is no faith in the judiciary or law? What does one do when everything is corrupt? Here is not someone who is acting like a Bollywood film hero taking the law into his hands, and trying to cleanse the system. Here is a man who just wants to protest peacefully by fasting.

Where the government has to use force it behaves like a eunuch. When innocent migrants in Bombay make an honest living by driving cabs, they are brutally beaten by local political parties with weird agendas; these political parties were not brought to book. Now these migrants are not from Italy. At the same time an Italian who remote controls the government can squash a peaceful protest, with high handedness. When Pakistan sends hundreds of militant trained terrorist into India, instead of retaliating India gets into negotiating and keeps going on its knees using cricket for politics to build friendship. If India could negotiate with Pakistan for decades and still not resolve any issues, what was the harm in negotiating with Baba Ramdeo? Why was instant results expected from an Indian who is protesting and decades spend negotiating with an enemy country?

Why was this yard stick not used with Anna Hazare? What is different from what Anna Hazare did to what Baba Ramdeo wanted to do? Both wanted to peacefully protest and had followers to fast with them, so what was the crime that Baba Ramdeo did that he had to hurled up like as if a criminal was caught and hauled up into a flight and thrown out of Delhi? Highlighting Baba Ramdeo as corrupt with the zillions he has made claiming a cure from pimples to cancer with his twisted art form of yoga, was this something that the government only realized when he wanted to peacefully protest on the issue of back stashed in foreign banks to be brought back to India.

What is so weird in Baba Ramdeo’s call for capital punishment for the guilty who have stashed black money overseas? Then think of it if an Ajmal Kasab a terrorist who is caught is not hung yet, how will the corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, industrialists be ever hung in any life time. On the other hand how can anyone be hung in India, as it seems there are no hangmen in India? How much more weird can it get as it seems a making a noose is an art, as the rope needs to smoothened clarified butter, bananas, and hell knows what all gourmet recipe needs to be applied to a rope just to hang a criminal, in the name of humanity and reducing pain when hung.

Can criminals not be just shot or given a lethal injection and done with, or will it be only people who raise their voices in peaceful protests be treated with no humanity?