It’s been yonks since I’ve posted and I truly did believe
the words had deserted me until I railed against a post this morning on my
college Watsapp group. Living away from India I have been watching the drama in
my hometown of Mangalore for the past few months develop into passionate frenzy
the past month due to the State elections, with a nonchalant eye, half closed
really.
The shit storm of politics never interested me, even though
Mother is a fire brand supporter of the Congress party. I think it had more to
do with Rajiv’s good looks than ideology and of course his death, which gave
him unwarranted hero status. Mum would write to newspaper and magazine
editorials, very passionately about her beliefs, most often as counter
arguments (now you know where some of this keeda germinates from) and Heaven
help us when they were published.
When young we rolled our eyes behind her back, as we grew we
rolled them in her face and when we grew balls we asked her to buzz off (Mother…
I am your oldest child and you know by now that I’m inappropriate, ill-mannered
and irreverent, don’t disown me yet, serves you right for making us endure all
those odious political debates and news… you should have allowed us to watch
Krishi Darshan).
Yeah so, politics and me??? Unlikely bed fellows. I hate politics,
hate politicians and hate to waste my time on the dumbf*ks. I think ALL of them
are cut from the same miserable sackcloth that is driven by greed for either
power or wealth and those who are not aren’t worth their salt since they are
impotent. This is my personal opinion and I do not want to hear about the “clean”
politicians. If you know them, hallelujah! good for you.
The past few years have married religion and politics in
India and history has proven how dangerous this liaison can be. World history has
taught us about the damaging influence of the Church as a sovereign, Martin
Luther and his band of prostitutes have damaged the world forever. Ok ok!
Protestants. (How do I keep mother away from reading this post?).
How much unnecessary
bloodshed has the world seen, how many innocent lives were lost? To what end? Look
at Europe today, most of it is either atheistic or agnostic. But will we
learn??? Ah no!!! what is a popular dogma today will be dust on a history book
on a long forgotten shelf in a few years.
What unleashed this torrent of words is this terrible
feeling of utter helplessness and despair as I watch the path of self-destruction
our society is headed towards. For someone who tears up every time our national
anthem is played and wore a red bindi to church on my wedding day, lights diyas
for Diwali and draws rangoli, don’t tell me my identity is connected to the
religion I was born into.
Do not automatically assume I have any allegiance to
a particular political party and for sanitary pad's sake don’t expect me to blindly
beat the Modi drum. I have nothing against the man personally. The vermin that have emerged from the woodwork under his regime is who I want to piss on. (err.. chill!)
I get it that using Hindutva is a political strategy by the
party and most people are falling like nine pins for it, going as far as to ‘rewrite’
history since the books we read taught us a distorted version of history apparently.
What exactly did those lessons teach us and how did they influence us and our
thinking? Methinks, I would still be this gruesome piece of shit no matter what.
Ok, confession time… I’m frightened shitless, like seriously
crapping in my chaddies, heart beating wildly types (nopes, not ogling at
Milind) as the thinking of my ‘elite and intellectual’ friends seems to have
left the room. One even went on to say, “we Hindus have taken so much shit, we
are done, our patience has run out and you better watch it.”
Eh??? When did I become
‘you’ and when did you become ‘we’. The bourgeoisie
has its brains between the nuts, understood… but those with grey cells that I admire
and respect, how does the obvious Fascism escape their notice.
This is just a political
gimmick to divide and rule, by playing into religious sentiment, they have
mired rational thinking. If you repeat a fallacy thrice, the fourth time you
say it, you will with conviction. Your brain, enslaves you, why do most people
who commit suicide with a gun shoot themselves in the head? They have to
silence the master. All these posts (by each political party) are insidiously
altering our cerebellum and so craftily. Should we lose our rationale too??? More
importantly our humane selves??? (Mother… say nicely for me)
