What’s the din about

Who says we are done? Some dumbo it  must be. Even to mention  it.  Does it matter if you lose small change en route to the big prize? You don’t really worry losing a league match or two when it is the World Cup you seek. And the cup that cheers isn’t really too far away. Just a matter of few months. Just about a year from now. The loss of five States earlier in the week, not all big ones, mind you, would normally cause red faces all along the way, from one’s shakh to the karyalaya where stock-taking is done. Yes, of course, it would embarrass some but not the Janata fed on slogans such as “the future is bright, the leaders is right” won’t accept my word for it.  The leader knows. Yes, Modi ji is the unconquerable hero. Don’t you know of the valorous Chandragupta Maurya or Maharana Partap or how Porus sent the all-conquering Alexander the Great, packing home. The loss of five States is no more than a flea bite. It isn’t even the beginning yet. Wait a few months and you will see how the big battle is  joined and won. See how the forces of Vikas will triumph over all those backward looking folks, the regressive forces showing you their empty palms and raised hands, the  bicycles, the  leaky boats, ink-pots and even broken yokes and elephants. Didn’t you notice the lotus, its stem wrapped in the holy saffron color, making a clean sweep of the place called Jammu and Kashmir. What a great victory it was. You have Gov. Satyapal Malik’s word for it not mine, a hack’s. Yes, with the politicians on the run, the ruling Governor confesses that Kashmir is “demonized” in the rest of the country. Let him say, he knows why he is doing it. He has goal in mind and he will pursue it. Yes, Kashmir the very place which but for Sardar Patel and Shyama Prasad Mookerjee was nearly gifted away to Pakistan by that Kashmiri Pandit of Muslim lineage, then faking as Prime Minister of newly free India. Plague to them all, the undeserving, strutting around, like so many peacocks, each claiming to have led the freedom movement. Unfair? No, who cares. Forget that measly place. Just see, only this hour (Friday morning) the Supreme Court of India offered the greatest encomium to our government headed by the greatest human of the 21st century Narendrabhai Damodardas Modiji. Yes, the so-called Rafael deal of which that great, great grandson of questionable lineage had made so much during the just concluded elections in some States!  Yes, the deal with France, the one you were told was struck with younger of the two Ambani brothers with the most decisive concurrence of  Modiji himself and which was said to have cost the exchequer needlessly  extra fortune. No losses was the sterns word from Modi’s man Friday  Amit Shah by the afternoon when the Supreme Court had said a virtual; no getting embroiled in the controversy sought to be dumped in its front yard by Modi opponents. All these whistlers and more  will all be in Modiji’s back pocket whenever he blows the whistle  for the big prize, his version of the  India Cup in a few months time, calling  the  general election. The grounds all fixed, the officials including the referees in place; yes, the ones from the supervisory commission, And the soldiering, the security bandobast too. All set, for the big win. All alerts sounded. Man Friday Amit and his UP side-kick the acerbic Yogi Aditya ready to be unleashed.  The parliamentary poll will be the poll to end all polls, You will see.. Yes, that is it, which will make Modiji continue to be seen as one of the tallest leaders the world has ever known, re-elected as Prime Minister of India, the great Hindu abode,  the Hindu Rashtra, a nation of hopefully  of 1.5 billion by then.  The Pradhan Mantri would thus merit a rating next only to the “greatest” American President Donald Trump, (due for re-election 1920) who  has  a load  of clouds to clear,  before taking his position as the greatest benefactors of his people, like Namoji.  Great nationalist figures both, who would make Adolf Hitler cower in their presence. God bless the twosome at His leisure! Some hope.  Just then the jolt. Did I know how Congress had lost Mizoram in the North East? Yes, I do. Mizoram, a Christian dominated State, ruled by thee Congress until the other day,  opted for the local MNF whose principal concern during the entire poll campaign was against Hindu chauvinists seeking  to lure them to their camp assured also  their continued right to  eat beef. But then I saw the ordinary Mizos worried more about their conversion to Hinduism than the right to eat beef. I heard a few padres openly canvassing against enticement by the RSS volunteers who had spread their nets far and wide and successfully converted quite a few Christians. Many RSS pracharks have indeed been in the North east for years on proselytization missions, a few pracharaks have even married the local lasses, but, then I am flying off at a tangent. Most ‘bhagwadaris’ (saffron dresses) somehow are convinced that Modiji and his party of Hindu rashtra is going to strike back forcefully – and with anger. Y’see Mr. Modiji doesn’t like defiance. His decade and more as Gujarat Chief Minister and nearly five as Prime Minister now tell us that he thrives when challenged. Or, so mythology has it. That’s also because Modiji is such a determined soul that he doesn’t, beyond a point, care about means. The end is what matters. Means lead you nowhere except getting disrobed and covering your behind with loin cloth and putting a stick in your hand. No, Sir, no Gandhi for Modi.. We have our own world’s tallest statue of the  iron man (Lohupurush) Sardar Patel, who Mr Modi, would have us believe was the savior of whatever remains of Bharatmata now, our beloved Hindu Rashtra. Believe me there are times when I do want to say thank you, Narendrabhai Modi, for reducing political conversation to its basics which resonates well with the lowest common denominator across all walks of life. Unfortunately the spirit of democracy which we have imbibed, not just from our Constitution or its framers, but also through our long association with liberal thought (you will be surprised it has penetrated into our rural hinterland as  well) and interestingly for you the American example which has become  a world tradition shining like a gem  in a coalmine. Yes, true, Mr. Modi’s greatest friend, Mr. Trump has been hearing unpleasant messages from day one of taking over as President. He has been under investigation from the day one, when he won a   dubious election. Yes, he might even face impeachment by the Congress for the many outrages allegedly committed by the billionaire builder. And like the American tradition let its gentle coercion or persuasion stabilize order in our land. Can we please be gentle? Alternatively, we will have to live with memories of a clumsy Idi Amin of Uganda.

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