First Stop The Nonsense Then Corruption

Let me be honest – I am little tired of people accusing anyone and everyone who dares to draw an opposite thought on the movement against corruption. The general perception of one has to be an idiot to question what Anna Hazare or Baba Ramdev is doing is not only scary but illogical. Hell, even the perception is spreading quicker than the number of pseudo seculars in India. Let me clear this. I am not against Anna or Ramdev or even Ram Khilawan Dhobi as long as the idea is nationalistic. And certainly what Anna wants to sell us is not only nationalistic but also the need of the hour. No two ways about it and trust me when I say this because I am no Abhisekh manu Singvi who talks big on morality during prime time and by the time it is night, does exactly the opposite on YouTube.

For starters, neither supporting Anna Hazare makes you someone of high moral automatically, nor questioning any of his steps makes you one pathetic human being in turn. Or else we wouldn’t have an ostentatious number of grander quality molesters and cell phone snatchers around Anna’s fasting venue. If shock waves have already flown down your spine by reading till here then the exit route of the pain is just closing the browser, not throwing at me those pathetic high morality syndromes since I know you routinely pay the bloody railway ticket tout to book that Tatkal one for you. At least I haven’t done that yet. Hence a suggestion; don’t even try to machinate with the standard throw away of morality like an average cyber networking clown going forward.

Getting back to the topic; how many of you believe Anna has achieved something? Seriously? And I don’t expect emotionally charged brigade almost in the verge of crying as if they have finally seen how a well-fitting suite looks on Rajiv Shukla and answering ‘A Lot’. Be logical. Will you? You don’t have to choke your throat with emotions every time Anna Hazare name is whispered in your ears. It’s not a bloody Shahrukh Khan Movie script that I am narrating; God damn it.

Coming back to the question of Anna’s achievement, I would say nothing. Other than keeping himself starved, talking for weeks on various corruptions as if we otherwise were dumb like door stoppers to not have noticed it, letting all his team members repeat the same lines again and again like ACP Pradyuman, making a hell lot of people take out symbolic marches (even I have attended half a dozen of them and even have shouted ‘Anna Tum Age Badho, Hum Tumhare Saath Hain’) across India; the achievements are anything but significant. The only achievement that I can see coming out of this year long agitation is he made our so called prime minister (many might not be knowing) Manmohan Singh to speak not once but twice. To be candid, if one asks me for a perfect example of ideas getting into a cohesive force and then going haywire, I would not look much beyond Anna’s fast. I had my full support when Anna took to the stage a year back. That was necessary for our otherwise doggy government to heed on what the citizenry of the nation wants. But making an overture of it time and again looks a little ordinary. At least not up to the rank which I had set for Anna Hazare and his team. Standing on stage and just blaming the corrupt might look fancy and enchanting but in reality it even doesn’t make the thugs yawn for once. More annoying was the manner in which the fast was called off after some kind of assurances. You take assurances of our political class with seriousness? Really? Then God bless you all. Fool’s paradise could be so gargantuan; I never had such imaginations of it. No sooner on expected lines, the scoundrels retracted back on what they had to promise to an entire nation and we were back at the square one or may be zero out of nowhere. No wonder Anna would have felt aggrieved and so does many. But does that calls for another fast and a possible repetition of the same scenes frame by frame till we again land up at the square one? Couldn’t there been a better route that should have been carved out by the grey heads of Team Anna? Was it that necessary to stage another fast in Mumbai as repugnance, only to call that off for reasons which nobody knows. And we just had the third one which yet again been called off for reasons nobody knows. Not even half of Anna’s own men. This is ridiculous when you actually make a mockery of yourself since you termed this movement as a motion of the nation. Along with Anna an entire nation is mocked.

If all was not enough, what we hear now? A political party? Seriously, I wasn’t expecting a joke as an end product of this Anna movement. Haven’t we got enough political parties to make the ballot paper a three page affair already? I am sorry I should have termed it as ballot book. Have we achieved anything from all these parties over a period of six decades? We have so many idiots around who readily float a new political party every second day, I could easily do without another. Spare me please. All these political parties are nuisances at large, irrespective of who the founder is. For this, even a simple affair like casting your vote is becoming one confusing matter. My wife, precisely for this only, once had to mistakenly vote for a guy from some ‘Nationalistic Jansangh Ulema-E Hind’ party. Need a break from this. I pled.

By the way, what this Baba Ramdev is up to? Though I had some kind of conviction with what Anna had to say earlier, I never had any faith on this guy. His first edition of fasts where he had to learn some tough Laathi yoga was nothing but humorous. Flanked by a funny looking chap called Balakrishnan (I seriously feel sorry for him) Baba was all over the place blaming every damn living thing (including Sharad Pawar) of the planet. That was hilarious until a heavy Laathi charge that surfeited the entire drama so much so that he has to run away in a ladies suite. I also feel sorry for the poor disciple on what she might have worn after giving her dress to Baba so that he could protect his modesty. Who will take responsibility for the death of that hapless woman who was agitating alongside Baba? Well go ahead and spank that idiot Kapil Sibal but yet still, the reasons for this unnecessary loss of a life remains unanswered. Can Baba stop winking his left eye for a moment and answer in clear terms, what he has done for the family of this woman, other than crying before the media ‘Hame Barbarata Se Mara Gaya, Pita Gaya’? This is nonsense when you use people for your own personal gain and leave them to die since you believe you have repaid them by providing a plate of Aloo-Puri during the day.

Alas, he is at it again for the second time at the same venue where he was humiliated a year back, pretty much doing the same Nautanki. Only hope he is carrying a pair of Salwar-Kameez and the venue is well equipped for the agitators to evacuate in the event of another Laathi Yoga session.

So Guys, cut the crap and pretty quickly at that. Days of Mahtma are long gone. In today’s time an odd Ansan might put you on the cover page of Time magazine but nothing much beyond. Forget about eradicating corruption, it can’t even force the corrupt to scratch their balls and think seriously about the repercussions. And dear Anna Hazare, my faith towards your movement was for an entirely different idea, which certainly wasn’t you forming a political party but for something which I hope you still remember, goes by the name ‘JAN LOKPAL’