FIST OF FURY- THE TALE OF TWO REGIONS 

There is a dialogue from a hit Telugu Picture "Bommarillu. In that a 25 old son says to his father," Dad! To keep you happy I suffered for 25 years. No more." It is time people from both regions in AP tell politicos, "To keep you happy, we suffered a decade. No more." Please, people, call their bluff and live happily. Or, there is no future for your children.

Now, start reading.

“Hey! You! You can not enter the park”, the Sikh Guard at the entrance of the park tells Bruce Lee and shows him a board. “Pets and dogs have no entry”. Ad when he allows a Japanese lady with a pet, Lee goes on a beating spree all around the park, because it is a Martial Art Film and he is Bruce Lee. These, translated-into-English-Hong -Kong films have a touch of fun in them and whenever I see these films I recall the political scene in India and have a hearty laugh.

 Not that fighting is fun but it is really, when these guys slug it out in English. You can also enjoy the fun. The Sikh guard in front of the park is expected to shout, “Hey, You!’  His face looks furious but in the translation he loses the steam and sounds like “Meow”.  Did you ever see the scrolling news items? “The PM talks tough. He takes on the Pakistan.” Or “Sonia Gandhi turns furious on the opposition in the Parliament” or such other scrolling news. If you observe the videos clippings of these news items, you will remember the above scene. PM looks as meek as he usually is. We can never follow what he is articulating; anger, frustration or humor as we can only see the lip movement as in the Hong Kong films. And Sonia Gandhi is seen furiously thumping desks and gesticulating. We remember the two characters in front of the park, the Sikh Guard whose words and action  do not match  and Bruce Lee who goes on thumping all those who suddenly spring from nowhere; from  walls, from earth and some suddenly dropping from skies.

And there is invariably one character of an old Martial Art School teacher with a long beard who teaches Martial arts. He also talks tough like our PM. You will only not guess that he is talking tough unless you see his face because always his speech very meek. His beard covers his lips. “Hey! You! Why are you beating our students?” And all the time he says this, purportedly furiously, the guys from the other school go on a beating spree non-stop. Best course is to mute the sound, see his face while simultaneously reading the captions, if you can do both.  Sometimes, I feel how good it will be if the news channels write captions of what our PM talks so that I can mute the sound and read it. (One advantage here is we need not see his face as he shows absolutely no emotion at any time like a saint).

Most of these films have two schools of thought like one Japanese, one Chinese or like one Kung Fu and the other some other Fu. They go on relentlessly fighting like the Semmaandhra and Telangana politicians. We can’t understand why they are fighting unless we see the films many times. “Hey! You! The Ching Chee School is the best in the world.” “No! Hey! You!  The Chung Chu is School is the best” And the fighting starts. For half an hour relentlessly, they fight and what you hear is the sound of “Hey! Hu” Ha!” and hundreds of them suddenly crop up from nowhere. They fight each other and you do not know who is beating who as they look alike, until the last scene, when suddenly the bearded man appears and says in an emotion you will never understand. “Hey! You! Cheng Chun! You saved the honour of our School”. And the inimitable Bruce Lee shows his muscles once again with a furious face as if he is going to beat the bearded old man. Never expect that as the film ends there.

Now you compare. “Hey! You! You politicians from Seemadhra! You have no right to stay in Hyderabad. If you want you can open a curry point here.” A leader from Telangana says from his safe turf. The Seemandhra politician reacts from his own safe turf’ “Hey! You! You have no right over our Hyderabad. It was developed by all the three regions equally”. “But who built Assembly hall, Charminar or Mecca Masjid? Not You, Hey!” the other TG (Telangana) leader says. “Who brought GVK, Reddy’s, Satyam and all other so on and so forth?” one other Andhra guy reacts. But unlike in the films they never meet face to face. May be, if they ever meet in large numbers in a public place like Public Gardens, there will be lots of “Hey, Hu, Ha”s. It would be fun to see even paying for the ticket. And like in Chun Chun films, all these guys look alike as they are cousins and unless they talk you can never identify which guy is from which region. But what we have here are some intemperate remarks and some un parliamentary words. Nobody knows why they are fighting for even if he is seeing its rewinding daily a number of times for almost a decade.  People from both sides are bewildered. It is they that are losing heavily in the turf war. Luckily they do not crop up from nowhere as in the Chin Chun Gun films. Or else the State would have become a big battle field by now.

The only hope is that one of these wins one day and he flexes his muscles furiously and the bearded old man comes and says with no emotion on his face, “Well done. Dhum Dhum” . You saved the day for us.” But as these people are mainly from Andhra Pradesh who rarely see a Hong Kong Movie, they expect it to end like a typical Telugu or Tamil Film where all quarrelling parties come together in the last scene (whether divided or united), form a circle and laugh heartily with the “Subham” card showing and all audiences leave the theater with tears of happiness in their eyes as it ended happily or tears of sadness for having emptied their pockets for such a shabby movie, for one decade.

I too hope (I hail from AP though I have nothing left there but some dried up dreams), that it will be a typical Telugu Film in the end and all will come together and part happily to their respective safe turfs to live happily either united or divided with no hard feelings. And I hope, by that time the bearded old teacher is sent to his retirement home. And all may live happily thereafter under a new young teacher.

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Since past two days, my lap top room was occupied by Vani, for some reason. That is the only room where the Wi Fi works. I was out of Twitter and saw many Hollywood Movies out of which “Fist of Fury” was one. I saw Telugu News Channels also and that led to the blog.

 

FROM RAIL TO JAIL- THE LOVE SAGA

It has a typical “Bollywood” touch to it. The stage is all set for the marriage of convenience upstaging the marriage of love. From the blue, a Mr. Nobody appears in the marriage pandal and cries loud, “Stop the marriage. This is nonsense. It can not go on”. The stunned guests look bewildered.  By the time they recover their aplomb, the Mr. Nobody disappears without explaining reasons for his objection. He says, “ I have come here to say only this. Tear the couple apart and throw them away” and goes back to his work or whatever it is, even the RTI can not bring out.

Now, it falls upon the father of the bride who has been painstakingly defending the marriage of convenience to tell the truth to the guests. He tells the guests present there that Mr. Nobody is still young and unmarried despite attaining marriageable age and hence does not know the nuances of love and convenience marriages. “If you look minutely, both are the same. You remove the veil on the face of the groom and you will find that it is in fact the same guy my daughter has been in love.” And he narrates the love story that appears in the book “Ordinances and Ordinary non senses” authored by Mr. Jailbirds alias Five Cents.

LOVE STORY THAT STARTED IN A PARK FULL OF GRASS

The love started in a park full of green grass in 1990 when the groom attained fame and name and earned a good job. It was fully paying. Though short the boy had been very bright in his reflexes. They were meeting in the park and exchanging pleasantries and occasional costly gifts. One fine morning, an observant gardener observed that green grass in the park where the couple was meeting was fast disappearing. And soon other gardeners complained that grass in other parts of the park was also disappearing by an act of mystery. The bride took special interest in the subject of “Grass and grasshoppers who eat the grass on which they hop” and did a thorough research on it and obtained a Doctorate. Ultimately she found that her fiancée was eating the grass while simultaneously making love to her.

She developed an instant aversion to the boy and complained to her father who asked her not to jump to conclusions and convinced her “I would order an inquiry”. Years passed by. The boy was suspected, humiliated, jailed, bailed out and all kinds of abuses were hurled on him. The bride did not still lose love on him.  “Look through my eye glasses. Even if he eats grass he is still cute.” She muttered to herself and when she hopped on a train for a five year long journey in the year 2004 she asked him to drive her train and guard it from behind too.

And what a driver he proved to be? And what kind of a guard he had been. He took the train on fast track, earned laurels from business schools for his talks on the subject,” How to run a train on profitable lines without doing anything worthwhile”. The girl was enthralled. The journey continued. In 2009 she had to change her track and started looking minutely at the real story of her train journey for five years. She found that he only painted the train in bright colours but inside it were stinking toilets and torn out seats and berths. Because of this, the boy too lost popularity and became a persona non grata for both of them. So, they dumped him though the love saga continued behind the many gates.

Another four years rolled on. The father aged. He lost confidence in himself. He looked around for saviours to marry his daughter. He found her lover. He called and asked her to fall in love with him again. “How can I, dad? You ordered an inquiry. It is in final stages. It is proved that he ate the whole grass not only in the park where we met but in other parks too. And added to that your own sons are also involved in it and by oversight I too ate a little of it” the girl wailed. “Don’t worry, kid. I will arrange a marriage of the boy with you. You can always say it is an arranged marriage. Let us cover him with a veil.” And he brought a veil from the ordinance market. So the father and daughter conspired and convinced the boy that he would not be left high and dry and they would protect his honour come what may. “Only marry my daughter and save our honour.” The father asked of him. He agreed as he knew his fate depended on the ageing father of his love.  So, the marriage was about to be solemnized by the high priest when suddenly some estranged relations started making noises outside the pandal.

Now, we go back to the top. After the bachelor Mr.Nobody left the pandal and the father of the bride painstakingly defended the marriage all other relations loyal to Mr. Nobody who gave their silent consent to the marriage and all estranged relations outside started shouting, “It is a sacrilege”.” We can’t marry outside our own caste principles and he belongs to the grass eating clan.” Some anti-nationals cried that the whole clan was chewing grass even while calling the groom names. But they were shouted down by some media friends who came to cover the marriage with cameras and loud mouths..

The father too had to backtrack. He said “Now, the marriage can not go on.” And he advised the high priest to withdraw from there. The story is never ending. Now, a discussion started whether the bride’s honour was put at stake by calling the marriage “nonsense”. Some said “yes” Some said “no” Some very intelligent editors of news papers and talk show freaks of visual media  said “nonsense” was not a bad word and was said in “good spirit” The bride, who was usually silent as she always lived in the glory of her own researches still remained so and withdrew into herself totally. All lived happily there after.

Mr. Nobody, in the meantime, was lost in ‘his own state of mind” and devised plans to save the honour of the bride’s father and thought little about the silent bride and left her to her fate.

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Disclaimer: This is satire intended to be smiled off. If you believe that there are 'humans' who eat grass I leave to your wisdom. By now, you know who the bride and the bride's father is. And you must be silently laughing about the bride. Mr. Nobody is known to all, though he remains Mr. Nobody forever hereafter,

SIN OF ONION - THE JAIL AND BAIL STORY

Politics in India is filled with fun.  But how can this be known to an onion? So, when a young man was released on bail even when the case of corruption continued, an innocent onion approached the “vegetable court” for bail too. Onion and bail?  No confusion here. Onion was in prison. The prison is called a godown. It is impossible to escape from here as it is totally secure. No government authority dares enter the cold storage godown. But onion can not say, “I am suffocating here. Release me.” So it told the court, “I am suffering in an extremely cold condition in the prison. It is like the North Pole.  So please grant me bail, Your Honor. ” The Onion Bureau of Investigation (OBI) objected to the bail as election is far away. “What is the relation between an onion and election?” the court questioned OBI.  “It is a big story.” the OBI advocate chuckled. “We will hear that later, but first tell us what the crime of onion is.” asked the court. “Quid pro quo” told the OBI. “What do you mean by quid pro quo?” asked the stunned judge. “Yes Your Honor! Whenever the common man tries to cut the onion to size, it demands tears from him. That is the Quid Pro Quo, Your Honor.” Convinced was the Judge and he asked the OBI Advocate to relate the story of the relation between an onion and election. An amused OBI advocate narrated the story thus.

THE STORY OF JAIL AND BAIL

The grand old party held a closed door strategy session. The discussion centered round the party strategy to counter the surging public opinion in favor of the opposition. They were alarmed at the prospect of the opposition winning the election and the post poll position of their wealth accumulation. The scion of the first family initiated the discussion. He forgot the name of the party that was opposing them in the coming election. He remembered only the leader named by the party to lead the nation as he was always thinking about him only. His state of mind was such that it was months after he visited Spain and hence his growing hair clouded his brain. So, he asked, “What is the name of the opposition?”  Unfortunately, all the minions present forgot the name of the party as their brains were filled with the image of the opposition party’s leader. But one who came out on bail from jail recently and still facing corruption charges remembered the name. And he stood and said, “Young boss, I know. It is JBP.”

Then, it struck the leader and all his yes-men too got their memory back all of a sudden. “No, it is BJP”, they cried in unison. “No, it is JBP, boss.” shouted back the bailed out jailed fan of the leader, who is always in utter confusion. “What is JBP?”, asked the Captain of the sinking ship, called GOP. “It is Jail and Bail Party”.  “Awesome! What is your name?”, asked the scion.  “You know me! I am always in the news for the wrong reason and my confusion. I am in-charge of party affairs, for a state south of the Vindhyas.”  The boss adjusted his hair so that his brain can peep out and think and said” Now! I remember you.  What an idea Sir, jee?”, he shouted. The congregation of the fan club saw in consternation and confusion. They wanted to call his mom. But in the meantime the champion young leader regained the function of his brain and asked the wrong one to explain.

“In fact, JBP is not our opposition, boss. It is an ally in our hour of compulsion. I was in the state under my charge a week back. I was stunned by the reception got by a young man in jail on charges of corruption released on bail, courtesy our agencies of investigation. The whole traffic was diverted. Our party leaders helped in halting the traffic for more than five hours to see him get a grand welcome. I went to the CM and asked why a person released from jail and on bail got such a huge reception and why they were helping him. He smiled and said that he would be our future savior in the election.” I was awe struck. A person facing charges of corruption and our savior?” I asked.

“Yes! All these are our future allies. Our Supreme knows we can’t win election on our own this time in any state.  So we initiated a process long back whereby we can align all political leaders of various hues. This is called “Operation Jail and Bail.” First we identify some corrupt politicians who are the most unethical when it comes to quid pro quo and imprison them. Then at the time of election we release them on bail, with help from agencies of investigation.  In the meantime we continue to bash them day in and day out, so that all the sympathy of voters they gain. We can use their sisters and mother, if required. Exactly before election we release them on bail with help from the agencies of investigation. Later, we align with them and form government. This is a quid pro quo arrangement our Supreme framed.”

“And young boss, when the CM told this story I was flabbergasted. What an idea, Madam! I shouted and swooned. When I regained, I told him that we could name these as “Jail and Bail Parties.”

The boss adjusted his hair again and allowed his brain to function.  He got an idea. “What is the rate of onion?”  He asked. “It is ten short of one hundred” replied all in unison.  “How many onions we kept in cold storage prison?”, the brain behind the scion asked. “Oh! Tons and tons” all chuckled.  “So, you ask OBI to see they get bailed out just before election. The price will come down.  Our common man in his state of mind usually forgets any crime. So once the onion price comes down, he will forget it brought tears even without cutting. So, once onion wins us the election we will admit it in our coalition.”

A very cunning minion asked, “What about the crime of the onion boss, the quid pro quo?”

This time the boss chuckled. “Oh! That will remain. We will keep it as our trump card. We will again imprison the onion, release it on bail and so on and so forth.  Onion! Zindabad”, he shouted.” The chelas joined the chorus.

The story ends here.

“So, Your Honor! The above story is self explanatory. With this I rest my arguments and strongly oppose bail to  onion until election.”

Onion chuckled and nodded its head. As the onion had no objection to remain in prison till election, the Judge adjourned the case till the next election.”

“After all!  Onion knows its power on common man.” thought the judge of the vegetable court back in the cabin. Amazed by the brain of the Supreme the common man looked in stunned silence!

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DEMOCRACY IS ALL ABOUT PEOPLE

"I pretended to be an open book. But I was closed off and conceited." Coco J. Ginger. This quote speaks a lot about open books. So, when our PM said mid-air (he talks so much there), he might be quoting the above author! Or just as Dharmaraja said in the war with Kauravas "Ashwathama Hataha!" and aside he said "Kunjaraha" knowing that in the din of war cries the second part was not heard. So he remained truthful and honest. (The analogy is for the purpose of the assumed honesty only; nothing more or less) The PM too might have said aside, " Most of you Indians are illiterate, what can you read even if I keep my book open?" and might have chuckled. Who knows? In the din of the noise of the air plane the correspondents might not have heard or pretended they did not hear. Or his inner voice might be singing "Mera Jeevan Khulla Pustak, Khulla hi Rah gaya". (My life is an open book and it remained open"). Poor Man! What can he do? They opened it nine years back but he was not allowed to close it despite all the coal dust accumulating on the open pages.

Our PM is a Professor in Economics from Cambridge University. We do not know "What they do not teach in Cambridge University" (e la title of a famous book, "what they do not teach at Harvard University) but after observing him for a decade now we do know they taught him to be economical with his words, whenever he cant be a real economist. So he is silent on many issues that are not in his authority. Though in his inner heart he knows there are millions of words unspoken, he has no permission to speak those. But he says" I have nothing to hide", even while saying he has millions of words hidden behind his silence. If you want to call it "duplicity" he does not agree, for, he lost power to agree or disagree nine years back.

He is not a custodian of your thoughts, just as he is not a custodian of the/your files. Files too have thoughts. They have an inner sense as to what is hidden in each of them. So, our PM says, "They can think and hide themselves; why should I hide them?" We have to enjoy the fun in his pun whenever he is permitted to talk. In a sense, he said "I am not a custodian of your lives too". Or he might have said, "I am not custodian of your lives" only and in the din of "PM Chor Hai" noise, we heard him as saying "files". He got angry, "How can you call the chosen PM  of a nation "Chor"? Did you see this in any other democracy?". The fact lost upon him and the nation was that we forgot a decade back that we were a democracy; the day a PM was appointed by an extra-constitutional authority and he was not democratically elected. We forgot we should respect the post of the Prime Minister, when he started banking upon the advice of  an extra constitutional authority for whatever he said or did. As days passed by, we saw this decay spread like virus to all institutions that we are reconciled to a 'decayed decade'.

And the nation lost the 'state of its mind' when a few days back he said, mid air only, that he would be ready to offer his shoes to the young aspirant from the family, whom he respects the most. It is based on the theory of " Karma". Whatever is given is to be repaid and whatever one gives too is repaid. But the young man was reluctant to accept the decade old decayed shoes or he was unwilling to enter such big shoes so early in life. So, the PM again retracted his words, this time on Indian soil only, that he was not unwilling to carry on the work assigned to him for another five years.

But while returning from the G 20 summit he said, mid air only, that he would be ready to serve the Congress Party under the young leadership of the young man whom he earlier offered his worn out shoes. He also tweeted, "So and so is the ideal choice to be the next Prime Minister of India". And he seems to have forgotten what he said few days earlier. " We are in a democracy. A PM is not insulted thus" True! It should not have happened thus. But if he sincerely believes we are a democracy, he should have taken people's will as the final decision. After all, it is not a one man's choice to pass on the mantle of ruling the 1.25 billion people. People are masters in a democracy. His party should win first. If they have belief in the young man's ability to lead the nation and that the people are ready to accept their choice, the party should dare declare him as a candidate for PM post. This is a matter to be discussed in internal party fora, not with select reporters on board an aircraft. A PM who believes in democracy would have broached the subject in party fora.

Mistakes lead to desperation. In desperation a man lies and commits more mistakes. It leads to chaos. Chaos leads to confusion. In confusion a man loses sight of what he says. This is what is happening now.

Instead of beating around the bush with statements like,"thousand words behind my silence', "my life is an open book', "I am ready to offer my shoes" etc., the PM would do well to state what is written in the book and whether it is a biography written by someone or an autobiography".

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.” 

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist 

It is time people see the cover and back of the open book.

OF WALLS AND GATES

Since mythological times ‘jail’ has a special significance. Lord Krishna was born with in the four walls of jail. It is said when the uncle of Krishna has been forewarned of a danger to his life from the eighth born baby of his sister Devaki, he keeps both Devaki and brother- in –law Vasudeva in the same cell of a jail. Why they were not kept in separate cells to prevent birth of children is a question never asked and never answered. It is Divine Politics.

Present day ‘jails’ are filled with ‘divine men’ and ‘destined men’. The ‘divine men’ show you a way to reach divinity through various ‘divine acts’ in their serene Ashrams. The ‘destined men’ rule over the multitude and when chance occurs, jump over the walls. Funnily, even though they jump the wall a few unfortunate ‘wall jumpers’ are named “gate crashers” involved in various gates, sourced after “Watergate”. So they are taken through the gates of a jail and are kept under the cool comforts between the four walls of the jail. These ‘cool’ comforts are their “cells”. Though against rules, it is rumored that the ‘divine’ and ‘destined’ men are provided with cell phones to continue their divine and destined acts, mostly political in nature. If blown out, this will be named “Cell Gate” inside the jail gates and Media celebrates it with breaking the same news thousands of times. If it is from a hostile state to them, they might continue the act of breaking until the voice of news- reader breaks.

Many ‘wall jumpers’ are bailed out even before they are named after the gates by the powerful. These bailed out wall jumpers are provided with party tickets for future elections. Only yesterday one highly educated CM of a state tutored his future officers about this ‘wall jumping’ act by politicians. He named it “political corruption”. He sermonized thus, “Forget about political corruption. All the money amassed in political corruption is channelled back into the Economy . ” Hence, these ‘wall jumpers’ are provided security through various acts of the powers that be so that people that were fleeced of their tax money need not worry as the money comes back to the nation.  So, after right to information, right to education, right to your own food, now comes right to your own money.  Next elections might be fought with this ‘game changer” political arrow!

Some lucky among those ‘jumping the walls’ and involved in various gates come out of jail gates through bail. Once, they come out, their taint of corruption vanishes by a divine act and they reenter the political vacuum left by them. A beleaguered nation looks awe-struck as their followers celebrate, declaring that, ‘law takes its course’.  There is no fast track for law to take its own course. It is like a 10000 k.m. marathon subject to clauses, sub-clauses, provisos and what not? As a pill to the ailment, even if a PIL is filed and the highest court rules that it is against law to provide them positions, some divine act will again be enacted and security is provided to them.  

There are a few unfortunate cell inmates that won’t get bail. So what? They fast and get admitted in a Corporate Hospital to get relief. They run their political outfits through the four walls of jail. Their kith and kin run through the streets shouting about the injustice committed to the ‘innocent’ children of the nation. As I told because there is no fast track to run the course, the law gets exhausted at a point. People in India have a tendency to forget and forgive.  After a time they close the gates of their minds to all the ‘gates’ that crashed on their faces a few years back. They wish and pray that these innocent children be brought out, so that they can rule them over again.

There are other unfortunate inmates who are not bailed out by their ‘deemed Gods’ as law has to take its ‘course’. So, after a few years say five, six or seven they suddenly get back into their memory that they, in fact, followed the state policy on various issues. They consult their conscience or the conscience of the adversaries of their deemed Gods and mail letters from their cells accusing their gods of not bailing them out. “After all, we followed your policies. You could at least have missed the files to protect us.” Media breaks this news with vehemence and breaks it again and again. All political parties question the wisdom of the state in pursuing a policy of no-tolerance on criminals. After all, if the state followed a less no-tolerance policy these innocent guys would not have been in their cells. So the matter stands.

Here too, there is a mythological touch.  It is said Vasudeva fell on the feet of a donkey to achieve the divine object of Krishna  reaching his destination, so that he can eliminate the Demons.  In the present episode as to who fell on whose feet and the divine objects they have in mind are yet to be revealed. Then they become part of history! Or for help, the ‘divine men’ behind the jail gates might be approached to know the truth!


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Note: Who 'jump' your walls when you are fast asleep or out of town? I hope you can guess. They don't need gates. Courtesy "Watergate" they are named gates here too. I would have named them walls like "Coal Wall, Spectrum Wall, Game Wall etc.,"

THE DECAYED DECADE- THE VEIL OF FACADE -II

(MANMORALS)

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” 

― W.C. Fields

This is a continuation of my earlier blog under the same heading.

“It is not great if we try to overcome problems. We should see problems do not arise” he said, in Tamilnadu in March 2010. In Parliament he took an exact opposite view. He accepted they committed  many mistakes. He said  they created problems. In fact, they created problems in all states. In AP, for example. Does it make any sense?

“We are brininging more administrative changes to make governance more transparent.” he said while addressing NRIs in January, 2011. And on Robert Vadra he kept silent saying he is a private citizen. On missing files, he says he is not a custodian of files. Whither transperancy, if the PM iis not willing to bring political parties under RTI?

“We will take effective steps to bring back black money from other coutries”, he said in 2011 on the “vote of thanks” motion on President's address! How many times did he dodge this question taking shelter under multilateral agreements? Did he not know of these when he spoke in Parliment or was he misleading the nation?

“I never asked anybody to buy votes. It did not come to my notice if any one purchased.” he said to India Today, in March 2011. What honesty, Mr. PM? Why do you hide behind a veil always? Two mistakes make one good excuse. You go on doing blunders and show excuses. If PM does not know anything, why should the country have a PM? Cant it be self-managed?

“Take decisions without fear. For fear of future persecution, if you don't take decisions society will be further harmed”. What sane words from a Prime Minister? He never took any decision for fear of persecution. Result is total policy paralysis in the country.

“Rupee fall is temporary”, In May, 2012, on board special aircraft returning from Mayanmar. And the PM knows what the percentage of fall in Rupee since then is. Did he not know then they there were domestic factors? Was the economist in him not able to foresee future contradictions worldwide?

“Poverty is coming down. Real wages are increasing. There is fiscal stability in the country.” In CWC meet in June 2o12. Today the reality is, by their own admission 75% rural and 50% urban population are poor and require food security. Which one of these is a blatant lie?

“It is not difficult to achieve 8% growth rate. If you give us power again we will achieve”. He has to answer this himself. If we answer his prayers, as nation we are doomed! 

Whatever he has been saying during the past niine years was belittled by himself when he put the entire blame on the US, Europe n Syria etc,, and finally on the opposition parties who he says, did not allow him to work. He said “He was not a custodian of files” when asked about missing files. He, as well, seems to have said he is not custodian of our lives anymore. How can he take care of each life when he cant take care of each file? Opposition members shouted “PM Chor Hai”. They were not right in that. We accept. Except under Sec. 498A of Cr.PC no one is guilty until proven. But an Asaram Bapu is guilty once an allegation is made. He must be hanged, as per our news channels. Not Yasin Bhatkal whom the Bihar Police do not want to question, as their political bosses lose votes. It is a different secular issue for him/them.

Ultimately, he feigned anger on opposition parties, ignored the main issue and sought sympathy of middle classes who are waiting to celebrate his imminent exit. He wanted to reenact the 2009 episode. Then it was Nuclear. Now it is unclear to him and very clear to the middle classes. After hearing what he spoke, I feel he likes India and not the Indians. He likes India because it allowed him to rule for nine long years. He seems to have no prejudice! He hates all equally. He talks to himself because he seems the only one whose answers he accepts. World stopped caring him. Most times he refuses to answer the questions as he does not know the answers himself.

In the final analysis, it seems he is telling us “ I cant go back to yesterday as I was a different person then” From Alice in wonder Land! He lives in the past glory. We want future glory.

We can sum up thus. “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” 

― Mark Twain

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Note: This blog was intended to expose the lies of our Prime Minister during past nine years of rule. Hidden under the veil of honesty these sweet lies tell the 'story of India" whether growth or fall! After his speech in Parliament brazenly trying to hide the facade of lies and put blame on opposition BJP to reenact 2009, it is inevitable the ball is taken to his court.

The PM's quotes were courtesy "Eenadu" Telugu daily in a middle page column today under heading "Punayabhoomi" who painstakingly collected the PM quotes. I thank them. 

  THE DECAYED DECADE- THE VEIL OF FACADE -I

(MANMORALS)

“Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.” 

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He looked 'pathetic', is a simple statement. I am not a vocal critic of individuals. I always try to maintain a thin balance between ideologies and individuals. But when I saw him defending his own 'facade' of honesty and his failed economics in the Parliament I could not but change my stance. Since this blog is about him, who, sans any ideology to boast of as his own, ruled us for nine long and excruciating years I am forced into a path I never tread, personal criticism.

There was vociferous demand from all quarters in the Parliament that the PM make statement on the sagging economy, the falling rupee, failing investor confidence and the impact of fall in all indices and constant threat of downgrading by rating agencies.. Added to this, there is the deeper malaise of banks being downgraded by rating agencies and the ever increasing NPAs despite all the window dressing done by them. And then there is fear of escalating CAD and Fiscal Deficit. All this comes up and above the deeper malaise of scams that ate into the vitals of economy. First, it was said he would intervene in a debate, that we seldom see! Then FM went on 'board” saying “all is well, it will end well, don't panic'.But persistent demand forced the PM agree at last to talk, on a subject he is deemed an expert. Alas! It turned out a damp squib. He blamed all in the world except himself for the present scenario! Shocking! All that later. Let us see into his personality traits and the various flip flops he committed during his nine year rule.

That he is an economist is known world over. What  kind of an economist he is, is an enigma always. Under the shadow of a maverick politician Mr. P.V. Narasimha Rao, he is said to have brought out Indian Economy from the abyss. That he was only a bureaucrat following orders in a known fact. When he was made PM by the supreme sacrifice of the single leader of the country, all expected he would show his mettle. That was not to be. Albert Einstein said “Two things are infinite; the universe and the stupidity; I am not sure about the universe” Stupidity at its heights of our PM brought us to a state where we even stopped thinking “what next?”

He is said to be honest. It is a facade. An honest man never keeps silent when, in his own name, lakhs of crores of public money is being fleeced by his leaders and lieutenants. And he says “Behind my silence there are thousand words” and then too he fails to say those hard words. Let us analyze a few of these “Manmorals” (we might name) during the past nine years. “You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough” is a good quote. He lived twice, both times he lived wrong and wants a third chance to make all his wrongs right. His growth story has at best become a boring, never ending serial.

In July, 2004 he wrote to the Chief Ministers “ We should transfer rights and powers to the people” What he did was to keep all his rights and powers in the hands of one leader and leave the nation in the lurch.

In August 2004, while addressing the anti corruption officials of states he moralized, “ With consensus, we should evolve fool proof rules and regulations for all departments for better working of Government Institutions, moral code of conduct for political parties and moral code to all the public servants.” Now we see CAG being demoralized by constant attacks, CBI being called a “caged parrot” by SC as its independence was compromised by none other than the PM himself, RBI Governor had to openly castigate the Government of policy paralysis and undue intervention. He commandeered the cabinet that brazenly sought to bring political parties out of RTI. He presided over a cabinet meet that sought to appeal in SC to reverse a landmark judgment on criminals not contesting elections! “Anyone who thinks sitting in a Church can make you a Christian, can also think that by sitting in a garage you will become a car” is a quote. If he thinks, by moralizing he can be sought to be honest, he is grossly mistaking us as fools!

While addressing Superintendents of Police in September 2005 he preached, “In your professional duty, you should not succumb to political pressures. You should draw a red line somewhere.” He is not a politician. But did he ever draw a red line? Instead he offered his worn out shoes to an Untested Tube Baby politician to lead this nation of many challenges (multiplied during his rule)! What a hypocrisy!

“Good health is the birth right of every citizen” he said in March 2006. But he singularly failed to arrange an ambulance to his only leader when she suffered from fever and other ailments right under his nose in the Lok Sabha. How is it with ordinary citizens?

“We should establish special courts to provide speedy justice in corruption cases”, he said in April 2008, while addressing Judges of High Courts. And what did he say in the RS the other day? “Corruption was there, it is there and will be there?” Did he spell out what he did to root out corruption? No. No.

“Government must be pro-active, imaginative and see that growth is inclusive.” he said while addressing CII in April, 2008. Then, why by his own admission, 67% population is looking for bare necessity of food? Why is the price of onion suddenly jumping? What is the per day income of poor you are assuming, Mr.PM? Rs.33/_ in Mumbai and Delhi? Is it inclusion in growth after nine years?

“If we are given a chance again, we will see that the country comes out of economic morass in hundred days” he said while addressing an election rally in Rajasthan in 2008. The state is due for another election. And he says in Parliament that they committed mistakes and domestic issues contributed to doom in economy? If he accepted failure so brazenly why does not he quit and rest?

“Not only small cases, but big fish indulging in corruption should be made to stand trial.” He repeated in the meeting of anti-corruption bureau officials in August, 2009. And what did he do? He made daughter of MK from Tamilnadu as RS member to secure his own seat, even when corruption charges on her are being probed. And how many big fish are booked till now?

“Government is taking all steps to bring prices under control within a few weeks” he said in CWC meeting in January 2010. After few years, the prices are increasing by leaps and bounds. The CWC is still meeting and taking disastrous decisions! He is quiet!

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Note: This blog was intended to expose the lies of our Prime Minister during past nine years of rule. Hidden under the veil of honesty these sweet lies tell the 'story of India" whether growth or fall! After his speech in Parliament brazenly trying to hide the facade of lies and put blame on opposition BJP to reenact 2009, it is inevitable the ball is taken to his court. The second part will follow as it is lengthy already.

The PM's quotes were courtesy "Eenadu" Telugu daily in a middle page column today under heading "Punayabhoomi" who painstakingly collected the PM quotes. I thank them.