AnnaNama

Caveat: Please don’t draw conclusions and set my home on fire. These views are as innocuous as your concerns for our corrupt nation. 

I hadn’t heard of Anna Hazare three days ago and I just can’t stop hearing of him now. When a person transforms into an idea that fast it gives me whims to think of conspiracy theories. There is no denying to fact he has fiery noble intentions to burn the biggest clog of our constitutional framework: Corruption of Political Class. But then there is my full denying to the fiction he has created out of a panacea like bill. 

The problem is not in politicians. It is in us. No we won’t face it. Why should we? We are already too preoccupied with our own problems.  Instead of facing the mirror let’s face TV and put up a Hero who is dying for our problems.  He has a magic wand that will cage the greed of all those who corrupt and we will live happily ever after. 

I despise Anna for not believing in my forefathers who were wise enough to skip this bill when they drafted our constitution.  I despise Anna for making a serious issue page three property. I despise Anna for disrupting the trust of kids of my country in their own country’s elected leaders. I despise Anna I do. 

Let me be very rudely clear corruption is intrinsic part of money. As long as you’ll have money in system you’ll have corruption. It begins with you, you and yes you too. 

Okay what solution I have? 

1. See the light and stop there and if you don’t go to Thana with the cop don’t bribe out your ass. 

2. Do not idolize A. Raja. 

3. Stop being a character of movie named “A-Conpenny” Anupam Kher playing the eponymous and Pritish Nandy throwing in his hard-earned bukcs. 

4. Love your country even when you don’t have Goosebumps. 

5. Find more of them I am exhausted. ( Share with me in comments )

PS 

If you are angry burn an effigy of me. 

Kaun Common Man ! Main ?

                                               A nation is made of aspirations and perspirations of its common man. A common man is made of composite cultural values of that nation, contemporary churnings in its economical, social and political cauldrons.  It is not very tough to meet one. Just greet yourself. Yes we all are common men. “Wait ! Who the hell are you talking about ! ! !”

                                              I don’t know how it was back then in those B&W times. In these 3D times it is a deadly sin to be a common man. Nobody I know says he is one. Nobody I know isn’t but the one. This is the irony. We all are escaping our commonality. We are always fighting it. We are trying to dupe, delude, delete it.

                                             There are some serious national disadvantages of this denial. We are depriving our nation an self-aware common man this in turn is depriving us of a nation that is aware of its common man.

                                            There is no end to the hallucinating powers of the temptations that lure us out of our identity and it is no secret either who cooks those delicious potions of temptations. The thing is we are so deep into inebriations and illusions that rob illusory commonality off our egos that we start to yawn when someone drones on about it. ( Case in point. This yawn of yours. This column of mine.)

                                           Bottom line: We have to assert our identity with a sense of pride that is spontaneous if we are still in the practical category of patriotism, nationalism. We have to talk us out of the entrapping notion of uniquneness and emerge and arise as a common man.

PS

I haven’t just read Karl Marx.