Friday, November 25, 2016

 

Surgical Confusion (Part II)


The beautiful festival of lights, Diwali, has now become a festival of noise. Noise to prove what; is still confusing? Definitely cannot be a celebration, because if it was, it should have left a memory, but instead has left the citizens in the capital of India choking under pollution. Does God need so much of noise to prove His / Her presence? Which God has proclaimed ‘Make a Noise’ to prove one’s faith in Him. Even when God would have made the Universe, there would have not been so much noise, which we Humans make to worship Him. Practically every religion is now associated with making a noise. Looks like ‘any religious existence’ cannot be proven without a noise.

In the melee of all the noise and pollution, Modi declared another surgical attack after Diwali, and this time the noise was a deafening silence. The nation was stunned as in a matter of few hours, when Modi declared, high denomination of currency notes of 500 & 1000 Rupees was no longer legal tender. A great commendable move to eradicate black economy, fake currency from across the border and terrorist funding. Within 24 hours citizens were queued across the country to exchange the currency notes which was no longer valid, or to deposit the same. Social media was split with pro Modi and anti Modi views. Social reality was, Indians were regaled to the street. Jokes on the opposition were definitely hilarious, like Rahul Gandhi thinking SBI (State Bank of India) meant ‘Swiss Bank of India’. Rahul Gandhi can think, itself is a joke. One thing for sure was the citizens were made a joke of, where people who were lining outside BOI (Bank of India), looked like ‘Beggars of India’. Patriotic social media came with a message of common man saying “I don’t have black money, but why am I made to suffer”, with a soldier replying he has no enmity with Pakistan, so why should he die for Indians. If this is a war against black economy, the target did not hit the ‘real enemy’ who hoards black money but hit and even cost lives of many of the common average man. Akin to a soldier on the border firing on his own battalion. Come to think of it, it was even literally happening, with police beating people queueing up for their own hard earned money. Even criminals would not be walloped so mercilessly. On the contrary criminals enjoy great jail facilities in India, to the extent. Maharashtra state even planning a new VIP prison in Bombay. When did a criminal become a ‘Very Important Prisoner’? Rahul Gandhi gets summoned to court because he remarked that the RSS killed Mahatma Gandhi. Will anyone get summoned to court or be jailed for the amount of people who died in this surgical attack on Black Economy or will this be considered as a ‘Collateral Damage’ of surgical war. Collateral damage in war, usually is when majority of the enemy gets killed and few civilians are effected, unfortunately this war reversed the casualties, where people who are dying are the common man. Still awaiting to hear a death of an industrialist or politician or a Pakistani because of demonetization. However Pakistan continues decapitating our soldiers.

Modi’s move was an excellent move but bad implementation. It was like a crash test conducted on cars where the common man is strapped like dummies to see the impact. After that, the rich will just drive away in the car. Modi is an excellent and a great leader, but in a wrong party. A party which has alliances with right wing fundamentalist group as its core (mis)guiding principal. A party which is surgically dividing the country on sectarian lines, changing history books in schools, gagging media, political vendetta, deciding food habits on religious context, deciding how divorce should be exercised within a minority community. So now a Muslim man cannot divorce by just uttering thrice "Talaq Talaq Talaq". Is Modi estranged or divorced from his wife is a surgical mystery, for that matter he did not even declare his marital status when he contested elections. Talks of getting Dawood Ibrahim back to India is still a myth which we can only enjoy in movies, but what is mystifying is, why can’t India not get Latit Modi and Vijay Mallya to India from UK? UK could get out of the European Union much easier than what India is struggling to get two idiots extricated from UK.


If the intention was genuinely to target black economy, then it is not a rocket science for the concerned intelligence and tax authorities to surgically pin point individuals and industries that are involved, and put the real culprits behind bars, instead it was lining up the whole country and search for a needle in a haystack. Jewelers made a kill after the announcement, even today there are traders who exchange the defunct currency for new currency with a huge commission. Is all this getting investigated, or is the aim just to ensure the nation is kept surgically frustrated and scared, with the common man wondering ‘Agli Bar Kiski Sarkar’? 

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