Although the title of this post somewhat reads like a spin-off on the Asterix title, the reasoning behind this choice of words is very simple. These are two most "trended" topics in searches,tweets,posts,article,tea-shop discussions in India right now. So being the selfish, greedy pig that some people think I am, I thought of using these to make my post come up somewhere in the first 50 pages of search results. With that established, lets now get down to business.
Anna Hazare is a man not to be thought of trivially, although years down the line, I hope that his place in Indian history would not be limited to being the 6th or 7th question of Kaun Banega Crorepathi- Season 32 hosted by Aaraadhya bachan. He is a man who believes in something and for that I hold him in respect. Not for what he holds in belief but the fact that he still believes. Lok Pal has become the proverbial pain in the ass,not that I know of any proverb or parable which talks about one's rear in so much detail. Lok Pal is something that no government, be it the present or the future ones, will ever accept to. But the fact that he still believes it will be passed if he fasts unto death is indeed worthy of praise.
The day Anna starts from being just a fad for the yuppie group and actually get into doing something towards that goal is the day that we will see the real face of the Indian public. Already the crowds have started thinning down at his now-numerous fasts. Today the announcement that they are considering entering politics is being equally met with cynicism by the public and the politicians alike. But atleast that's a step forward into actually doing something with dwindling-nevertheless but huge fan support that they have got. Hopefully they will emerge as a party and stand in elections and get elected. By the end of their first term there would be two cases of corruption brought against them and at the end of the term, the people will once again look to seeing who is paying maximum price for their votes. Thus begins the great Indian political party's origin and demise.
For the sake of argument, take any political party. Any one. From any part of the country. It's origin has always been founded on the base of fighting for justice. They all start out the same way and pretty much they all end up the same way. But for the sake of the same argument, take any dictatorship. They also start out the same way, fighting for justice and they also end up in the same way, with the dictator being abdicated, run out of the country or in some more fun loving countries being hanged or shot dead in public. I would like the second way. At least that way the people of the country get a singular point or entity to hate or love. Unlike now. Ask any person now, who is responsible for their miserable condition and whom they hate. They give a collective answer or a collective as an answer. Politicians. Police. Bureaucracy. They are simply in the dark as to which person in any of these collective groups is responsible for the crap that they put up in their everyday life. No current? The damn electricity board. No running water? Damn the metrowater board. No education? Damn the education system. Not enough Porn in films and TV? damn the censor board.(or something like that).
We, as citizens have lost our individual hatred and have made it a diluted thing by hating large bodies ..errmm..excuse me..large groups. Wouldnt it be much simpler to hate just a person? one person who is responsible for all of this? I say, its time for a revolution and its time we had a dictator. With the number of foreign imports coming to our country from Sunny leone to Sonia gandhi, can't we import one while we are at it.
Coming to the second part of my title, the Olympics. It may happen once in four years. It doesnt mean that we should focus on it only once in four years. To all those people who go about pissing off in Facebook "with a population of billions, cant we produce 10 gold medal winning atheletes?", just remember. Human reproduction has never been a game in the Olympics and even if it was, we wouldnt be winning it. According to UN census reports, Uganda is growing at a rate of 206%. Even Ethiopia is faster than us in that issue. Phew. So that medal is also out of our grasps. To all those oldies who on their morning walks and evening tea discussion who say "Today's youth have no focus, no desire, no ambition...In our times...". More than half of the medals that are there in our total tally is from the youths that you so easily dispense with. You do away with our playgrounds, put us into coaching centres, make us stand in front of consulates for visa interviews, put a cricket bat into our hands when we want to play any other sport and then you come and tell us that we are bad???(Please note the point that I am including myself in the side of the youth...as it should be). NOT FAIR. NOT FAIR.
As a finisher, a thought about both parts of the title. I heard that the oldest olympian this year is from Japan. I think we can ask Anna Hazare to participate also. Isnt he the "Fast"est indian ever??? What do you say
Anna Hazare is a man not to be thought of trivially, although years down the line, I hope that his place in Indian history would not be limited to being the 6th or 7th question of Kaun Banega Crorepathi- Season 32 hosted by Aaraadhya bachan. He is a man who believes in something and for that I hold him in respect. Not for what he holds in belief but the fact that he still believes. Lok Pal has become the proverbial pain in the ass,not that I know of any proverb or parable which talks about one's rear in so much detail. Lok Pal is something that no government, be it the present or the future ones, will ever accept to. But the fact that he still believes it will be passed if he fasts unto death is indeed worthy of praise.
The day Anna starts from being just a fad for the yuppie group and actually get into doing something towards that goal is the day that we will see the real face of the Indian public. Already the crowds have started thinning down at his now-numerous fasts. Today the announcement that they are considering entering politics is being equally met with cynicism by the public and the politicians alike. But atleast that's a step forward into actually doing something with dwindling-nevertheless but huge fan support that they have got. Hopefully they will emerge as a party and stand in elections and get elected. By the end of their first term there would be two cases of corruption brought against them and at the end of the term, the people will once again look to seeing who is paying maximum price for their votes. Thus begins the great Indian political party's origin and demise.
For the sake of argument, take any political party. Any one. From any part of the country. It's origin has always been founded on the base of fighting for justice. They all start out the same way and pretty much they all end up the same way. But for the sake of the same argument, take any dictatorship. They also start out the same way, fighting for justice and they also end up in the same way, with the dictator being abdicated, run out of the country or in some more fun loving countries being hanged or shot dead in public. I would like the second way. At least that way the people of the country get a singular point or entity to hate or love. Unlike now. Ask any person now, who is responsible for their miserable condition and whom they hate. They give a collective answer or a collective as an answer. Politicians. Police. Bureaucracy. They are simply in the dark as to which person in any of these collective groups is responsible for the crap that they put up in their everyday life. No current? The damn electricity board. No running water? Damn the metrowater board. No education? Damn the education system. Not enough Porn in films and TV? damn the censor board.(or something like that).
We, as citizens have lost our individual hatred and have made it a diluted thing by hating large bodies ..errmm..excuse me..large groups. Wouldnt it be much simpler to hate just a person? one person who is responsible for all of this? I say, its time for a revolution and its time we had a dictator. With the number of foreign imports coming to our country from Sunny leone to Sonia gandhi, can't we import one while we are at it.
Coming to the second part of my title, the Olympics. It may happen once in four years. It doesnt mean that we should focus on it only once in four years. To all those people who go about pissing off in Facebook "with a population of billions, cant we produce 10 gold medal winning atheletes?", just remember. Human reproduction has never been a game in the Olympics and even if it was, we wouldnt be winning it. According to UN census reports, Uganda is growing at a rate of 206%. Even Ethiopia is faster than us in that issue. Phew. So that medal is also out of our grasps. To all those oldies who on their morning walks and evening tea discussion who say "Today's youth have no focus, no desire, no ambition...In our times...". More than half of the medals that are there in our total tally is from the youths that you so easily dispense with. You do away with our playgrounds, put us into coaching centres, make us stand in front of consulates for visa interviews, put a cricket bat into our hands when we want to play any other sport and then you come and tell us that we are bad???(Please note the point that I am including myself in the side of the youth...as it should be). NOT FAIR. NOT FAIR.
As a finisher, a thought about both parts of the title. I heard that the oldest olympian this year is from Japan. I think we can ask Anna Hazare to participate also. Isnt he the "Fast"est indian ever??? What do you say
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