Why am I Crore Pati

The process of meek inheriting the earth has started in this land of ours. Search the whole world and you would find that we stand uniquely proud, for in here we have an ex-chief minister who on 1Re salary owned half the state. Not understanding this phenomenon of inheritance, many smell corruption, when small time officers are caught in government departments possessing crores of rupees in cash. This inheritance is definitely divine as such accumulation of prosperity cannot be explained by any rational principle. A different perspective from a little bit more rational human would be that “there is nothing unnatural and unexplained on this earth; it just means that we have not understood the ways of earth”. Let us take example of “invasion of Iraq”, an act that defied the reason of ordinary intelligence. A closer look and one finds that “it was the revenge of a young boy, who saw his father’s humiliation, and wanted to pay back by force, that would awe and shock the enemy”. The dots are thus connected and a bigger picture emerges.

To summarize, we have two choices, one is two accept that theory of meek, and pray higher powers to bestow upon the status of meek (The government has started dawning this role, by declaring most of the citizens being weak and backward). Or, we could be more rational and unravel the mystery behind this phenomenon. (This requires masterful imagination (lesser intelligence) to see beyond the obvious).

I reached the house of one such bestowed soul. From the outset, no one could imagine that this house could hold riches to surprise all. But then in this land, who could have imagined that a poor humble farmer can rise up to the level of premier. The officer in sour-lime-light invited me. The imprints of unexplained were seen in the form of sandalwood furniture. Guessing my wonder, the official pronounced that the sandalwood was safe in his house rather than in the form of tree, which would create brigands like Veerappan. At a more philosophical level he was agreeing with Thomas Gray
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air
The sandalwood in the form of tree was wasting its sweetness in the forest air, now it serves more purpose inside his house, with its fragrance soothing the body and soul.
In my fertile mind, I was foreseeing various defenses that he would offer. The best that came to mind was, “Sir, when lord Shiva drank all the poison that came out of the samudra manthan, the act was associated with that of divine, and here, I hold the root cause of all evil in my house, and everybody is crying foul. If this is not kalyug, what is?” Of course not being gifted with foresight of great visionaries, I did not realize that I was in a completely different (politically correct term for inferior) league than the official.

Giving me history of his past the official started, “I had a choice between a comfortable MNC job, as a call center executive, but then believing Robert Frost words, I choose the road less traveled”.” Who wanted to be a lowly clerk in a government office. Everyone is attracted by the quick money of MNCs. I have seen such friends having complaints of BP, Sugar. When the were 2x old they clamor for 2 BR flat, and at 3x age, the best they way they can try to reach the sky, is living on the top floor of this high rise ghetto 3 BR apartments. One room for their children and one for them. This is the where the easier road has taken them to”.
“Look at me, I am enjoying the fruits of serving the people. The golden rings on each of my fingers, is sincere appreciation of my clients, for my dedication to their cause. At the age of 2x, I possessed 2 acre of lands, on which these ghetto apartment were raised, and at the age of 3x, I am no more self centered. My wife and children all own 3 acres of land each. (Doing Public duty results in owning public property). The road less taken of course has been one to prosperity”.

“Been there and having done it, I felt that it was time to spread this message of public work driven prosperity”.” Sir, Bhagat Singh took voluntarily the noose, to arouse nationalist passion. I voluntarily subjected myself to raid and had myself caught with crores of rupees. You would of course realize, that I could have hidden this money in secret cabins in my house, but getting caught red handed was the best way to convey the message “that government jobs offers enormous potential of boundless prosperity, for every one from peon, clerk till all the way up”. I hope to see a day, when the youth of our nation, starve the MNCs of workforce, by choosing government job. Finally, it is our country, and one of the ways to serve is being part of government”.

You would now agree, that as Stephen Covey said, that there are perspectives to the same incident, and you would also nod in agreement, that logic and reasoning presented above is much superior than that offered by any political class. As per NG, some sects believe that “Judas did what ever he did, as per the instruction of Christ. He knew that even though generation would despise him to the core, he did the ultimate sacrifice, for the better of humanity”. Yes, the raid caught official” was a modern day selfless Judas” He is the author of a different kind of “Rang De Basanti”.

I am innocent

Disclaimer: The sequence of events and the utterances below, is a reflection of authors imagnative skills. All links to any recent events is purely accidental

The other day, I was caught while crossing a red light in my bike. Being a fast learner from recent events, I immediately proclaimed “I am innocent”. These words are effective weapons used by the powerful and well connected when caught red-handed. (Color Red is no more relevant, the crime list has grown in proportion and variety. Hidden cameras, being of cheap quality, cannot tell the color of hand. The color of banned narcotic substance is typically white.) The constable fell into the psychological game plan of my reverse logic, and started to get the feeling that I was perhaps connected and powerful. On his further queries for my driver’s license and RC book, I replied again I am innocent. Such incoherent and irrelevant repetitive utterance of the same words is the prerogative of the powerful. Additionally, ordinary tax paying denizens and their progenies don’t venture into illegal possession and smoke (sorry drive) at the same time.

The seed of doubt that I earlier laid, with respect to me being some “rayees baap ka bigda baccha”, was sprouting as a sapling. Further nurturing the young sapling of doubt, my co-rider announced that he was my lawyer, and that he would do all “speaking from legal perspective”, and the third pillion rider took upon himself the role of my spokesman.

The spokesman addressed thus: “He is not a habitual offender; otherwise he would have been caught repeatedly. He would have withdrawal symptoms like, “fear of police and driving”. Additionally, Youth is the time to make mistakes and learn from them, because when you are old, you may not have time to learn”. The constable perhaps was not used to such barrage of words, let few minutes of silence pass away. The words of wise statesman did not seem to have any desired effect, the spokesman used the most effective deflector ever discovered in this country of ours, since our independent political evolution started . “This whole incident is a definite sinister game-plan of anti national forces, to tarnish our image, for reasons behind human comprehension and intelligence”. (Authors Note: The “anti national forces” mantra though being oldest in politics, is universal and absolute, and is freely used by all parties in the political spectrum.( On the negative side, the usage of this deflector , means that ship of the individual is sinking, and all his crew is on the process of launching their own ship. ) Lesser potent variety of this deflector are the utterances where in the “foreign forces” are replaced with “politically motivated forces”. In the next level of deflectors are “anti secularist forces”, “anti people forces”, “anti farmer forces”. One should realize that using the deflectors require certain status in the hierarchy of politically corrupt.)

The release of “anti national forces” mantra had an immediate effect on the constable. He knew that “arm of law has far reach”, but was strongly aware that it cannot pierce through the shield of “anti national forces” mantra. The sapling was morphing to a good plant.

My lawyer, not to be left behind, said, “A person has to be innocent first, for him to be labeled guilty. You cannot label a guilty person guilty, as he is already guilty. So my client is innocent and hence cannot be guilty”.

Imagine the state of the poor constable facing a proclaimed innocent driver, teamed with a brilliant lawyer, a wise spokesman-statesman, riding together on a bike, without helmet/RC book/license, breaking the red light. The constable was touched with fear and love by the words of elderly statesman and was confused by the truth of my lawyer’s word (Truth and lawyer, ha, ha, ha). Additionally he inferred that a lawyer-spokesman luxury is reserved for few who are rolling in rupees. And of course the repeated usage of the great one-liner along with utterance of “anti-national” mantra, is how the rich and well-connected speak, when duress descends upon them. The seed that I had laid few minutes back had nurtured into a full grown tree and dropped me its fruit, as the constable let us go free.