Driving on the Mumbai - Pune highway blazing in all its glory; the excitement was palpable; the excitement was not because; as part of our induction program our employer was taking us to a "I do not know how many stars resort" (it was definitely more than 5) in Lavassa but because the General Election 2014 results were coming in. The BJP juggernaut was blowing everything in its path and storming its way to power. I remember clenching my fist and shouting out loud the BJP's marketing masterstroke of a tagline "Achhe din aane wale hai." Its not as if I was or am a great fan of their Prime Ministerial candidate then and PM now but it was great to not have a moron as a PM and get rid of this dynasty politics. That fateful Arnab interview did more for the nation than we realize.
One and half years on and a couple of decent budgets later; the economy is booming, a bunch of 20 somethings have taken the nation by storm, gazillions of dollars are flowing and yet the news headlines everyday are not even remotely related to these but some non-nonsensical drama about religion, beef and what not. There has been a murder (lets call it that period) because the poor guy apparently stored beef in his refrigerator. A big shout out to all you morons out there! You saved the day for all of us Hindus; I mean how dare someone even think of having beef. You know what lets kill everyone and anyone who dares to do that; lets start a civil war; our precious religion is in danger. Lets forget about getting a job, lets forget about earning a living and more importantly lets forget about humanity. BTW where are you people when hundreds of thousands of cows roam on the roads of your cities where actually vehicles are supposed to ply. Why dont you get them sheds, take care of them, give them food; this is how you are supposed to treat someone you worship? What is going to happend to them once they are of no use to their owners? but who is asking these questions and it doesnt make good television too. Mouse is supposed to be Lord Ganesha's ride; there is a whole tribe in East India who eat mice (they are known by the name which suggests that too), why not stop them. Just in case you didnt now they are Hindus too. Goddess Durga's ride is Lion, we poached them and sold their bones and skin until they were on their verge of being extinct; they were not Hindus, were they?
Price of pulses is soaring but lets discuss who ate beef and who didnt. I voted for change, I voted to remove dynasty politics from India, I didnt vote to read all this mess in the newspapers everyday. Law and order is the responsibility of the state government; agreed and to expect that the current party in power in UP will uphold the rule of law is foolhardy; agreed but if the party at centre does not banish its miscreants and also some of its allied; there will be another "wave" which shift the ground beneath its feet before they say "meat ban." If you have to ban to prevent animal cruelty, its more understandable but then ban all animal slaughter ( please dont do it, I cant survive without mutton). Mr. Lalu Yadav is seldom right and him talking logic is even rare but he was right when he said some Hindus eat beef too, I have sat across while some Hindu friends of mine have had beef. They are far better human beings than all these idiots and faith and religion is supposed to make you a better person so by that logic they are far better Hindus too. Dear Mr. PM we voted for you to become our CEO so that the Nation improves as a whole not just the economy, we did not vote to live under the fear that a mob will knock on our doors and ask for your religion or better still ask us to pull down our pants so that they can verify for themselves. Yes, the media is biased against you, but you have to make it work despite them. The economy might be improving, but no banana republic has ever succeeded, a look at our neighbors is enough to prove this. We did not vote for Dadri Mr. PM, we did not vote for this shit. As the urdu poet Faiz had said "Ye daag daag ujaalaa, ye shab gaziidaa sahar wo intazaar thaa jis kaa, ye wo sahar to nahii.ye wo sahar to nahii. jis kii aarazuu lekar chale the yaar ki mil jaayegii kahii na kahii"
Till that sahar comes; as another great poet Joey Tribbiani had said "its all moooo"!!!!
One and half years on and a couple of decent budgets later; the economy is booming, a bunch of 20 somethings have taken the nation by storm, gazillions of dollars are flowing and yet the news headlines everyday are not even remotely related to these but some non-nonsensical drama about religion, beef and what not. There has been a murder (lets call it that period) because the poor guy apparently stored beef in his refrigerator. A big shout out to all you morons out there! You saved the day for all of us Hindus; I mean how dare someone even think of having beef. You know what lets kill everyone and anyone who dares to do that; lets start a civil war; our precious religion is in danger. Lets forget about getting a job, lets forget about earning a living and more importantly lets forget about humanity. BTW where are you people when hundreds of thousands of cows roam on the roads of your cities where actually vehicles are supposed to ply. Why dont you get them sheds, take care of them, give them food; this is how you are supposed to treat someone you worship? What is going to happend to them once they are of no use to their owners? but who is asking these questions and it doesnt make good television too. Mouse is supposed to be Lord Ganesha's ride; there is a whole tribe in East India who eat mice (they are known by the name which suggests that too), why not stop them. Just in case you didnt now they are Hindus too. Goddess Durga's ride is Lion, we poached them and sold their bones and skin until they were on their verge of being extinct; they were not Hindus, were they?
Price of pulses is soaring but lets discuss who ate beef and who didnt. I voted for change, I voted to remove dynasty politics from India, I didnt vote to read all this mess in the newspapers everyday. Law and order is the responsibility of the state government; agreed and to expect that the current party in power in UP will uphold the rule of law is foolhardy; agreed but if the party at centre does not banish its miscreants and also some of its allied; there will be another "wave" which shift the ground beneath its feet before they say "meat ban." If you have to ban to prevent animal cruelty, its more understandable but then ban all animal slaughter ( please dont do it, I cant survive without mutton). Mr. Lalu Yadav is seldom right and him talking logic is even rare but he was right when he said some Hindus eat beef too, I have sat across while some Hindu friends of mine have had beef. They are far better human beings than all these idiots and faith and religion is supposed to make you a better person so by that logic they are far better Hindus too. Dear Mr. PM we voted for you to become our CEO so that the Nation improves as a whole not just the economy, we did not vote to live under the fear that a mob will knock on our doors and ask for your religion or better still ask us to pull down our pants so that they can verify for themselves. Yes, the media is biased against you, but you have to make it work despite them. The economy might be improving, but no banana republic has ever succeeded, a look at our neighbors is enough to prove this. We did not vote for Dadri Mr. PM, we did not vote for this shit. As the urdu poet Faiz had said "Ye daag daag ujaalaa, ye shab gaziidaa sahar wo intazaar thaa jis kaa, ye wo sahar to nahii.ye wo sahar to nahii. jis kii aarazuu lekar chale the yaar ki mil jaayegii kahii na kahii"
Till that sahar comes; as another great poet Joey Tribbiani had said "its all moooo"!!!!
