I am not a person who admire Bigg Boss type nonsense, throwing muck over each other, with excuses of mimicking the real world, pretending busy conducting social experiments. Well, if it is a genuine social experiment, then we should have some results and definitive outcomes. Always wondered what could be those results for society… Brakes… Don’t start thinking on that part, because there will be propaganda that this is just an entertainment about cutting each other’s throats, the ultimate life skill – survival of the meanest… So, nobody knows exactly what this show actually is about, not even the producers. But there is one definitive outcome… Money, in exchange of all dirt generated and received well by audience, who would have otherwise supported PETA in case of such inhuman violations on non-humans.
But, I voted for Bigg Boss S6 Tamil finalist in a “welcome change”. It had all the fault-lines mentioned above to milk the audience shock value. But still, it had refreshing common faces you come across in normal life rather full of wax models and larger than life Drama Heroes. The show changes like a chameleon, being warm early, shocking with few character revelations, getting atrocious emboldened by show support and finally, hitting dead end looking for a real Job. Its strange, most of them do not shine well, maybe such kind of shows, rip off the aura of any participant. Sometimes, even the Host reveals contradictory nature owing to the peculiar circumstances. It’s difficult to put up a charming face as pretentious blue foxes, turning pale with so much of negativity and pushing around with the mysterious voice subtly controlling everyone pressing their psychological buttons, like food, relationship, desires, phobias and what not.
This is where, Season 6 was bit different. It had few contestants who managed to stay calm throughout leaving unscathed without any character dents. Unfortunately, those kinds were classified as cud-chewing humans doing nothing in the show. One of the contestant, Rakshitha aptly stated she is not a Bigg Boss material. Another calm contestant, Kathiravan just left on the sight of the money bag, rather waiting for the kindness of Bigg Boss to eliminate. These are the real characters, I could fit myself, trying to keep calm in adverse situations rather blowing up towards insanity, which could be impossible sometimes. They cleverly and cautiously did not take anything personal but just as income generation cum publicity wagon, wisely using Bigg Boss to their advantage rather playing to his mischievous tunes, for shock value. There was lot of prodding from the host to make them try crazy things, like making them explicitly eat mixture, signifying their do-nothing nature, accusing each other, etc. Both gave a big Halwa to Bigg Boss quietly eating Mixture at home.
The other exciting contestant was an Advocate Politician, Vikraman, with early links to Media. He looked good and promising, but there was a sense of PR support even when he did nothing in his initial appearance. Felt a synthetic kids glove handling from the host along with a shocking “You too” advice indicating Host’s bias and Bigg Boss giving ample space to portray him in good light. To his credit he behaved very well and personally likeable, but wished he would have earned the Title, if he was made to earn it through tricky situations. Usually they do such episodes in the last stage in previous shows, but this time, Vikraman sounded like Jesudas singing on the same pitch and plane, pleasant and divine but not enough to stir the masses. He even got endorsement from a Politician I adore. There is a theory that Vikraman suffered due to such Ambedkarite endorsement. At least to me it does not hold water, as Vikraman was quite vocal on his ideology and politics making it his political stage, from the start. I voted him for that political endorsement. To me his destiny is not title, but a political space. Hopefully he remains truthful to himself till the end as Politics / Power is worse than Bigg Boss.
I was caught by traffic Police for a defective nameplate, on my way to kid’s school. They persisted on leaving the vehicle there until I get another name plate, even with an option of using their own vehicle. I really felt good on their gesture of that good Cop, though I don’t know which law allows them to seize our vehicles for such name plate issues. But this is exactly the kind of Bigg Boss scenarios people get attracted to and kept busy with rather working about the Upper caste criminals mixing excreta in the water tank at a backward colony. The Police is busy fixing the alphabet on a Bike number plate rather finding those criminals, sowing the seeds for a riot. Made me wonder, are the Police Cops at lower level, used as a mere tool by few RSS controlled Upper caste IPS Heads, in the guise of maintaining traffic discipline? Wish I am wrong on that part. But the fact remains, EPC / MKS are running a dummy Government with RSS occupying important bureaucratic posts. EPS allowed that and MKS just keeps quiet on saffron grip. I am ready to go through such exercises time and again, but what will this State Government achieve with their overhanded reach without any botheration for common people’s emergencies or work, without even erring up on traffic violations?
Hence, It’s no surprise Vikraman did not win the title. We will be kept busy with trivialities only to remind ourselves of such petty acts of controlling us during elections, just to choose another dummy Government. In reality, we have a long way to go to see such meaningful victories… Any symbolic victory for Vikraman or Shivin would have been an hogwash rather the real mirror for the society.
“For the good, there is only love to do the right thing. For the bad, there is only unending greed to do evil. Whenever there is a war between love and greed, victory is always on the side of the evil greedy.“
Thani Oruvan Song
My show stealer was Shivin Ganesan, a transgender with intelligence and conviction, rising from a nobody to a Finalist, with a nice character arc progression. Shivin looked so fragile in her earlier days, even escaping Prison through the bars, making me doubt that this is going to be another blunder in portraying a community, going through a lot. Slowly, she grew on me answering one of my fear psychosis, something related to my patriarchal upbringing, being called Pussy or equivalent. This could be a very simple western slang but still a somewhat cultural shock reverberating inside me. Shivin made me look at her in admiration on what she is, rather being just sympathetic towards their hardships. I don’t know if this just normalises the society, but it gave me a strong conviction that gender is an individual choice and comfortable on my own skin, rather putting up an Alpha male mask, just for the sake of identity to avoid softness. In patriarchal India, it’s easy to get under any male’s skin by calling him Pussy, but my provocation changed to who is the other bloody guy to decide on someone else’s identity and what kind of Freudian thought slip is that. I would thank Shivin for changing at least my perspective and dusting off such gender silliness, without thinking too much. I voted for her through another login. At least voting on these two contestants made me feel like living in a democracy. As usual I failed on choosing the First past the post winner.
The real attraction to me is the Host Kamal Hassan. I admire him as a movie stalwart, but with Bigg Boss, he is slowly transforming himself to a neighbourhood Uncle (or Grandpa? ); though he is consciously avoiding such stereotypes with fancy and crazy costumes. Who knows those costumes could be future fashion and tamilians tend to admire only when they grow on his marquee films slowly, as he stirs up questions and emotions. But, here, he seemed as an easy going person. This season, his portrayal has been refreshingly crisp, avoiding his earlier pitfalls on known flashbacks and sometimes lengthy lectures. Some of his thought nuggets were quite spontaneous and genial ( and I mean it ), with so much repeat value like a Meme. Neighbourhood Uncle’s “Don’t worry! I don’t get hurt easily!” keeps ringing up on my ears now. He also came out of usually restrained self allowing contestants sometimes to take him lightly. But this time he played like “Man of the Match”, taking more liberty to restrain rowdy behaviour and toxic atmosphere, getting comfortable on his slightly harsh mode if required. This looked like the Host and Bigg Boss Crew playing “Angels and Demons” and you know who usually wins.
Personally, I found myself as a reflective mix of few characters of the contestants. Don’t know how this will impact me, if at all, in the long run, but our Life from hammock to graveyard has lots of extraneous Bigg Bosses on the journey, keep on testing us without realising their own deficiencies, pushing us towards adverse reactions. Maybe sometimes such poking Bigg Bosses need to learn a lesson that they are not sufficient enough characters, to perform a character test. They are nothing but a “sexy and devious Money bag” out to steal out goodness in exchange.
All is always well unless we don’t get such Bigg Bosses to screw our life. As a proof, most of the contestants of this show are untraceable, especially the ones who worshipped the anonymous Speaker, dancing to his tunes. It’s usually silent Rakshithas, Kathiravans and Vikramans shine in real life.
Finally, the less said about the winner, better for our society.
In my early 30’s mostly spent abroad, Life gave me sweet Melons and even watermelons making it an enjoyable hedonistic trip exploring different cuisines, pleasures and… what not… I never focussed on any Country’s Politics. In fact, I was quite blissfully in admiration, seeing a nice black top road suddenly springing up in Ahmedabad on one fine morning on my short stint, thanks to my then ignorance that Politics is surface deep.
Well, Life is a “Course” by itself sometimes making O in it silent, on getting to know too much, especially when I started connecting to National level happenings moving up from familial Plane of thinking. Those were good old days, where you groove on to Rang De Basanti songs on your way to Las Vegas. I never imagined then what kind of seismic mind shifts a Movie could create as undercurrent. One movie was able to do the ground shifting damage in India, just like how an NTPC managed with crores of investment and manpower to do Joshimath subsidence. Anyways, In the land of angry and non-thinking Hanumans and fellow people hating Sree Rams, Let’s be blissfully convinced that Joshimath subsidence is nothing but a Chinese mischief.
When Rang De Basanti awakened our Protest mode
One fine morning pre 2014, newspaper headline spurting out many zeroes of what its Owner encashed on BJP’s 2014 campaign, disguised as imagined 2G scam made me angry for the Country. I never felt any connect with Govt Organizations till then, even if it means Banks or Electricity Board, where they worked like private enterprise, every Citizen gets his/her share of consideration and respect based on how much he/she could offer as “incentive” to be taken care of. I am sure those zeroes on the Headlines, awakened many such self imagined Don Quixotes, among many of us Indians who never bothered to think about Government so far.
“Madness, As You Know, Is A Lot Like Gravity. All It Takes Is A Little Push.”
– Joker, The Dark Knight
Now who are the real Quixotes imagining things?
Muffler Kejriwal and Juiceman Anna Buzzaare came out of nowhere as Perfect “Gandhians” helping out the Godse kind in a back handed shake, Orchestrating the India’s biggest Houdini act, making fool of US, Indians at every step, who never bothered to think, even if a clean MMS with bold participative reforms like Right to Information can’t suffice… Who else will? Well, that’s the real secret behind the success of any magic show… never allowing us to think, always keep deceiving us till the end, like exchanging intelligence for charisma / glamour with distracting mini skirt distracting from their act or in this case a Churidhar Baba planning his Billionaire-dom. So, we were so happy to vent out all our anger against the Government to aid a Crooked Mafia aided by Media, orchestrating us to manufacture Range De Basanti vibes for agitation aspiring Indians, out for the next trend. To their credit they kept us busy, transforming so called Saints from teaching us how to breathe towards teaching us strong economy by Breathing saffron. We also got glimpse of many other Babas coming out of nowhere to support Hindutva, in lieu of business favours and bails till date to help the Saffron Brigade win elections.
I am not saying the 2G scam as such did not happen, even if happened the mammoth amount associated with it is surreal / impossible. What BJP did with this scam, is that instead of dousing the scam house on fire, allowing justice to prevail, it chose to burn all nearby houses like Muzzafurnagar riots, RSS sponsored agitations, burning anti-corruption bridges built like RTI, PCA to make it a bigger mess so as to stir people. There is a tamil movie Thiruda Thiruda in which two thieves choose the next choice of their loot based of whom the mistress of the village keeps winking and trying hard to please. Cronies fed up with UPA policy paralysis and new found small morality, playing safe with fair decisions, engaged with their new found mistress love, leveraged this crisis to large extent by showering money on BJP.
If this anti-corruption movement went well, ideally we should be living in a corruption free society right? What we got in return? Corporate tax got slashed bleeding the yearly revenues around 1 Lakh crores, while the poor pay up 63% of the tax. The entire corrupt lobbying system got legalised with an opaque electoral bond. 14 Lakh Crores disappeared from the Bank Coffers as a gift for their Corporate Cronies as NPA, without even disclosing their name to public. The pragmatic step by step Anti corruption system laid earlier like RTI got systematically dismantled without even a CVC, so that no one knows or thinks about corruption anymore. Understanding that, future Quixotes just need a small push with lot of zeros and movies high on zing factor, they shopped entire mainstream media to show what they wanted us to consume. Bollywood become their Harem working in silence on illogical Hindutva scripts. Finally, to seal the entire covered deal, the fragile judging pillar holding the ultimate unaccountable seat of democracy, blackmailed for turning the seat to bed and got rewarded with consolation power upon retirement to tango on all Government atrocities. Is this what we all fought for?
Batman the Dark Knight movie, during Rang De Basanti times was a bitter-sweet-coincidence, Initially, Joker was able to operate a Bank heist with the help of his mates and finally kills all his Partners of Crime to take entire heist. Then, Joker manages to turn Harvey Dent from Gotham’s celebrated hero to a Villain.
“… their morals, code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be.”
– Dark Knight’s Joker
The Anti-Corruption Power heist
It’s funny to reminisce Aamir Khan actively favouring the Godse Wing sponsored “Gandhian” Anna. He then replicated similar angst, looking for respite when the Minorities got targeted with Hindu Supremacy treatment from new “Anti-Corrupt Rulers”, only to realise he cannot talk anymore about corruption or communalism even in his Films. Well, Aamir Khan is not alone. I had my own petty angst moment, when Arun Jaitley, decided to perform weight loss surgery on all Indians, levying 18% GST on restaurant food jacking up Corporate Cafeteria prices up by ~40%. My concern on a Corporate forum, turned out to be costly affair as my Manager started questioning on my Cafeteria interest and personal out of Office sleepy behaviour having nothing to do with deliverable. I had to then silence myself with a resignation for a sound sleep. So, for the first time, I realised Government can directly affect our own life.
Doctor Jaitley performing surgery on the Dead
That resignation incident turned out to be my first “Nimbu Paani pe Charcha” moment with Modiji, a foreign collaboration of “When life gives you lemons…”. Interestingly, our country moved down several notches on decency, from having a democratic setup of then Corporates not noticing physical participation in Anti Corruption protests and open Water Cooler discussions on Corruption, down to getting sensitive on a Government initiated Price rise. It’s another sad Comedy, after few months, I read Jaitely has decided to reduce the food GST to 5% as an insignificant note, well you know… unemployment has its benefits like becoming “the Dog sniffing Small things”. Till then, I would like to thank Nirmala Sitharaman for her Buddha-esque advices, “Don’t eat out, Cook at Home” or “I don’t eat Onions…(Guess What lineage!)”. I still wonder which ‘Election Baba’ provided her such golden nuggets of “Let Others, Let Go and Keep everything for Cronies!” type wisdom.
Onions, EWS Quota, RSS, Indians… Spot the odd one!
I need to admit here, that was the best Corporate experience for me post Modi as PM. The Corporate narrative got dragged notches further with open discussions imagining US not providing much Visas for Hindus but cherry picks Christian names and I will learn that perspective in due course… Not sure if I was paid for learning Hindutva. I am an Old Schooler, refraining from Election Politics at Office and I did not last long owing to multiple other factors.
My abroad job dreams also got nipped off the bud with the Indian Medical Checkup guy starting to smell my roses down under along with other naked inmates, awaiting defloweration, as if we were all put up in a cellular jail for an orgy. After deep smelling down under, I was finally threatened to withdraw my medical checkup, citing the harmless and more visible Thyroid nodule after exploring other undercover balls. Medical Centers are agenda driven forcing more money for a positive report as one such negative report could block the person from entering Gulf. Still I don’t understand why they searched for a Nodule in throat, kneeling down under, maybe they were making me the Indian version of Mannekin pis.
“It’s Not Who I Am Underneath, But What I Do That Defines Me.” –
– The Dark Knight
We don’t have any Government interventions to ensure a fair treatment at our own country. Even Gulf embassies respond on course correction. Instead, I only got some painful jokes from another recruitment Consultant in the guise of offering Job that even Airport Immigration officials could smell roses upon daring to dream abroad. When I ignored such stupidities as lame jokes at that moment, I eventually, realised this Government is really serious, controlling international travel access on whoever they felt insecure.
When a clueless uneducated becomes PM by virtue of hating fellow countrymen.
All this is not to claim BJP is depriving me of Jobs, but certainly they are propagating the toxic narrative, prevailing over everywhere, that no one dares to challenge this Government and consequently be deemed Insane or Pappu. Unfortunately, Corporates and Private Institutions have shed their once noble pretensions and so called social responsibility, moving towards openly worshipping Modi as he provides an easy but unfair access to Indian Coffers. From Ambani once calling the Congress Government as his Shop, where he can buy anything to the Cronies now entirely owning this BJP Corporate disguised as Government, with the Crony sponsors asserting influence everywhere from Funding BJP, Buying mainstream media, Sponsoring Party work with Ambani types even campaigning for BJP’s support in the guise of inviting Political leaders for family event.
Sab nanga Si…
Now, the beauty secret of Modiji is not about Magic Mushrooms, but his excellence at keeping us engaged with his Michelin Chef inspired Lemonades. GST is that lurking Dragon at our Doorstep, eating up our savings at all our activities, replacing Oxygen in Modi times. If you do a Bank transfer pay GST. If you wear Clothes pay GST. If you eat pay GST. If you order online pay more GST as convenience fee. If you sleep pay GST for Mattress. Maybe, Karma is the real dragon, giving Modiji nightmares where he could not even name China, stepping on his toes, even after swinging Jinping like Kindergarten kid in his Gujarat Garden.
When 56″ Balloon got busted
But Modi got so angry with a safe Malaysian PM who was so angry on Minorities getting lynched in India. He cut off all imports of palmolein from Malaysia, inducing edible oil shortage in India with Oil prices doubling up, making one wonder if Modi was really angry with Malaysian PM or with his own Indian Citizens.
Then Petrol Bunks got very innovative, not on their service part, but on displaying three digit prices, as they never imagined such a situation prior Modi times. But as you know, “Modi Hai toh Mumkin Hain!”. The best part of this price rise is that Modi was not angry but friendly with abroad Muslims / Arabs, the same tribe he loves to hate identified by their clothes. But he is so much in love with his Indian Petro-Gas Cronies, getting quite happy taxing hapless Citizens on a bloodletting ritual to prove their nationalistic credentials, to make his pet cronies World’s richest .
No country for poor people!
So, now Cronies get to buy Crude at Discount from Russians and export to other countries at high price from Indian refineries and still avoid paying wavering windfall taxes to Government. I did not know whether to laugh or cry when a Grocery shop owner attributed the all types of Oil price rise to Russia – Ukraine War. He seemed blissfully fine with the three digit Petrol price happening even before the War. This time Indians got a Petrol Shake instead of Lemonade as a token of Modi’s Mughal-e-Azam love story with Arabs. Its Hate-outside-Love-Inside strange story, hating Mughal Gardens… renaming it to “Lemonade Udyan” oops…”Amrit Udyan”. but welcoming Arab funds when his Benami got distressed.
Modi, the-Crony-Santa’s List goes on, with Adani capturing private power Plants and making sure the State Governments buy from him at higher price rather generating it cheaply, passing on the fat price rise to electricity consumers. Recently, TN Government raised the tariff for few thousands and still gloated that they are still among the cheapest. Neighbouring Puducherry Government wants to usurp the Govt EB as a gift to “A” Crony. Strangely, Neyveli Lignite Corporation is now amassing more lands and rumour is that a Big “A” will buy it from Government soon.
That ATE Bank of India, Guess who ate it and who replenished with cess and surcharge
Adani schematically buys Ports, increasing usage charges exponentially. Adani captures Agricultural sector on the Procurement and Supply chain, slowly killing small land owning Farmers. Recently, Himachal Apple Farmers smelled rot with double whammy of increase in Farmings costs along with Packaging costs due to 18% GST and procurement prices coming down, forcing them to sell their orchards and you can do rest of Math to Adani-Wilmar’s Apples. The Path towards “Fortune” of Adani is getting laid on the farmers’ and tax paying citizens’ bodies. The reversal of Farm laws claiming hundreds of lives is just half battle won or half lost. Farmers will eventually see a pattern of slow decay in Government participation in agriculture sector along with decreased buying of their produce while cutting off subsidies, forcing them to sell land to Crony Food empires.
“A one-off tax on unrealized gains from 2017–2021 on just one billionaire, Gautam Adani, could have raised ₹1.79 lakh crore, enough to employ more than five million Indian primary school teachers for a year,” – Oxfam Report Survival of the Richest: The India story
Nowadays, the rise of cronyism, eating up poor Indians, stealing one morsel at a time, gets drowned with agenda of hatred. We only get to see Hanuman staring at us angrily at the back of vehicles plying on streets. We could sense “Jai Sree Ram” used as war cry to subdue Minorities so as to provoke a fake sense of pride among Majoritarians. Can we all spare a minute to ask ourselves, why should Hanuman be angry when he is a mighty Lord at peace on his capabilities, rather getting unsettled and angry. We are busy chasing money to fill Government’s coffers as Tax rather asking ourselves why Lord Ram espousing the idea of “Eternal India” with his great virtues, now getting reduced to a symbol of oppression and fear invoking tool among Minorities.
Gods must be Crazy!
Somehow, this Government always gets excuses when even God can’t save their blunders, otherwise swept under Angry-Gods-Carpet. COVID helped them a lot to oppress us further, as face saver amid economic downturn. Now Ukraine War to save their….
I got to admit, my Budget expenses had doubled from 2014. Though the Dal prices and Inflation was high during UPA regime, it never got doubled like now. Ok! Lemonade Break again!
“The bottom 50% of the country’s population pays six times more on indirect taxation as a percentage of income as compared to the top 10%. Of the total taxes collected from food and non-food items, 64.3% was incurred by the bottom 50% of the population – Oxfam Report Survival of the Richest: The India story.
If we still get Mo-Sha and Crony Company back in 2024, we can be well assured that even simple UPI transfers will attract Bank service charge and GST. Banks are already looting on all accounts. They will just need to pay GST as convenience fee to the Government so as to stay blind on their atrocities. For all those Quixotes who took on their anti-corruption swords at the blink of a blowed and jobbed 2G loss, including myself, should also consider the fact that, Rs 12 lakh crore have been systematically siphoned off from banks in the first eight years of Narendra Modi’s rule – mainly by big corporate borrowers.
India’s banking system demonstrates class bias when it comes to dealing with loan recovery. In Jharkhand, a 22-year-old pregnant woman was crushed under a tractor for not paying INR 10,000 EMI. Instead of protecting poor and vulnerable from dangerous loan recovery tactics, the RBI withdrew its curbs on third party recovery agents. But in the same year, the loans written off by public banks reached INR 11.17 lakh crore which are mostly given to corporates. Hardly 13% of this massive amount has been recovered by the banks. – Oxfam Report Survival of the Richest: The India story
“The richest one per cent in India now own more than 40 per cent of the country’s total wealth. 5 per cent of Indians own more than 60 per cent of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 50 per cent of the population possess only 3 per cent of the wealth.” – Oxfam Report Survival of the Richest: The India story.
While the country suffers from multiple crises like hunger, unemployment, inflation and health calamities, India’s billionaires are doing extremely well for themselves. The poor meanwhile in India are unable to afford even basic necessities to survive. The number of hungry Indians increased to 350 million in 2022 from 190 million in 2018. The widespread hunger is resulting in 65 per cent of the deaths among children under the age of five in 2022, according to the Union Government’s submission to the Supreme Court[8]. After witnessing mass suffering and death during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was critical that the Government of India took aggressive measures to address injustice and poverty. But it has unfortunately lost the plot. India is unfortunately on a fast track to becoming a country only for the rich.” –Amitabh Behar, CEO of Oxfam India.
Luckily (or Unluckily) I got married even before all these atrocities started, as Sharad Pawar is so concerned about slowing down marriages due to unemployment prevalence in youth, We really need such marriage facilitators as Politicians, wishing us to suffer more with Spouses than with atrocious Government. Such Family thinking Politicians are certainly better than Gujarat Gucci Models, who choose to serve distress Lemonades upgrading themselves from humble Chai-wala story from a Station which never got Passenger Trains to serve. The most striking factor of Sharad Pawar’s concern is that, he is able to seamlessly “connect” with masses with grounded statements rather on elitist terms like Congress poll planks.
“You Either Die A Hero Or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain.”
– The Dark Knight
OK! Now all these tickling exercise with sad sobs, are not for telling a personal tale of tragicomedy, but to
Pinpoint…
That this Government Moth could whip up a typhoon on our meal plates and life, even with its minimal flapping of wings,
And
To iterate the significance of Pilot’s seat of BJP Govt can easily impact its harmless 140 crores of passengers onboard, ranging from turbulence to mid-air crash, based on how it navigates.
And finally…
Any Opposition party, able to sow the seeds of doubt on this government based on ground realities has higher chance of uprooting current vicious crony agenda. BJP Government clearly understands the risk of people becoming aware of their Governance blunders and crony loot. So, rather offering resolution to problems and attempting to make people prosperous, the Government chooses to silence dissent and doubt, by silencing the pioneers spearheading reforms, questioning the dreadful status quo. Now their Math got stuck on how far they could deploy Pegasus and make Israel rich.
When Pegasus peed on its licensed Owner
End of any Government, ultimately, it’s We, the People who are going to suffer, if we allow anyone to destruct the safeguards / checks and balances. The Government will easily pass accountability citing one reason or other as their Media capture is complete with multiple mega-cycles of Brainwashing – Anti-Corruption, Pulwama, Hindutva Supremacy. Nowadays, the mainstream misdirection news cycle is dominated by gory crimes and other petty stuff to push down any coverage on BJY. It’s now a matter of choice of what we actually need to hear and think, for a better future, both for Us and our Kids or lose ourselves in media dumb charade.
For something positive to talk about Modi, they are now clinging onto a slender thread of G20 Presidency, which just happens among its member countries in a circular fashion. Crores of money is getting lavished on this PR and local meets to portray Modi as indisputable Leader of the world. It’s natural BJP is so proud of such a routine affair, because, prior G20 Presidency, they only had a Photo-Cartoon where Modi rushes for lunch ahead of other leaders to showcase his world leadership. It will get quite funny, if opposition presses on BJP ( as PR is just BJP and Modi, not India ), to win G20 Presidency for next term.
A Photo Cartoon of Modi leading the World Leaders to…. the Dining Room
Presently, Bharat Jodo Yatra is acting as a catalyst, binding all the people together like Sri Krishna holding huge Mountain as umbrella, bringing people together amidst calamity. But, this is just a temporary housing, protecting progressive Political thinkers from present Binary Rulers thinking even without Zero and just One Nation – One Holy crap translating to – My Way or No Way, sabotaging the system, tearing up the Constitution page by page..
No one can deny, this Yatra had brought in a Positive wagon like Noah’s Ark for anyone who understands the future course of New India in the deadly communal direction, if not steered to safe haven. With Chinese stepping on our toes and the Go to Pakistan Hatred Bomb not delivering polarising results nowadays, we are heading towards another mega Godhra event or a fake dramatic ass* attempt, prior 2024 for the pre-election Brainwashing Media Mega cycle.
That “All is well” Houdini. BJP won that constituency where Morbi bridge collapsed due to callousness of BJP ruling for a long term there at all levels… again! OK. RG is unteachable mediocrity not Voters.
The Two-Crook-Army Brigade is so entrenched and hard wired on their Brains, fully convinced that all their sins could be washed away just by misdirections and provoking blind meaningless hatred citing imaginary freshly baked out of RSS oven history. For the duo everything is a magic show making fool of us. They believe nothing could make Indians aware of ground realities. Why not? They have tasted unopposed success on many occasions like… Shah got acquitted silently on a strong criminal case making Dhoni announce his retirement on the same day and ensuring the Media makes Dhoni the Headline rather the bloody grave blot delivered by Politician-Executive-Judiciary trio collaboration. It’s again a task for unemployed to skim out the insignificant news nuggets, sticking neck out for real news.
An imaginary paper with right news in smallest and sometimes invisible cartoon.
BJY is a mediocre fare, except for its huge distance. As anyone naturally levelling up even in PC games, this yatra sounds more like walking through Assassin’s Creed map without taking any useful mission to upgrade. Unless RG iterates on his reasons behind the yatra, which doesn’t get the Media coverage anyway, this yatra is not going to be a ground shaking Phenomenon, kindling the dormant free spirits of India. But it’s certainly a good one for starters, inaugurating a Progressive highway and assurance, it’s healthy and normal to think positive, free from media fed influence.
“If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.”
– The Dark Knight
Also, as a point of caution, Congress is getting completely hardwired into Yatra mode with many such startups getting cloned. While these are welcome efforts rather doing nothing, does Congress miss the big picture and wholesome strategy that Yatra Juggernaut needs a lot of support from the ground to make waves even to the level of amplifying Yatra message to nearby areas, days before it arrives with thought provoking pamphlets and innovative posters. The real success metric could be how much of Public now doubt Mo-Sha’s capabilities for VIKAS, rather mourning a Sportsmen’s retirement concealing something more dangerous to our country or get excited about Sports Icons’ new found Nationalistic sentiments, jumping from patriotic bandwagon or to get offended about a bearded kid below….
The Government more interested in counting the hair strands rather feeding the poor
We have many positive test cases of successful Politicians regionally, who gave everything for success through hard work and conviction. In Tamilnadu, MKS went all out with a positive theme on Sun/Son Rise few years before State elections with so much of thought provoking PR, especially on the roads, reiterating the fact that, then Rulers were corrupt and inadequate. DMK did not rely much on Social Media though they were strong enough on rebuttals and setting narratives. Social Media propaganda is getting obsolete and numb reaching its pinnacle in 2019+ as people are getting immune towards such false news. Irony is Congress understood SM only after 2019, making one wonder how RG managed to catch his abroad Flights on time prior Yatra.
“As A Man, I’m Flesh And Blood; I Can Be Ignored, I Can Be Destroyed. But As A Symbol… As A Symbol I Can Be Incorruptible. I Can Be Everlasting.”
– The Dark Knight
“Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Dark Knight
What Congress needs this year to accomplish is, establishing a strong electoral machine at Booth levels, identifying the real war horses on the ground, rather entertaining boot licking Darbaris, circling around Gandhis treating them like low hanging Fruit bearing Trees during Elections. This is where Congress could avail services of efficient Poll Strategists like Prashant Kishore, keeping them at arm’s distance rather giving them direct access to Gandhis’ ears. DMK was flexible enough to keep Sunil and PK, because they never felt insecure about these Poll Mercenaries. But, they also made blunders allowing them to influence candidacy. So, Strategy, Poll Campaign and Candidate selection should be treated as Independent action items, with the Leadership Board taking the right decisions based on feedback from the ground.
Coming back to Joker’s atrocities in Dark Knight, he then got busy after getting Denting Harvey’s impeccable integrity and character, rigging explosives on two ferries one with innocent passengers and other with Prisoners, pitting one against another, asking them to detonate the other Ferry to save themselves. Fortunately, Humanity prevailed over everything else and joker failed on his experiment miserably.
“By the time the credits roll for Dark Knight, it wasn’t the Joker or Batman who won the “battle for Gotham’s soul.” It was Gotham itself, and the good people who live there, who thwarted terror by simply rejecting it.” – Lindsay Roman, Polygon.com
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