So the government and the
media have done it again! Once again the skeletons tumbled out of the closet
but somewhere in the store that rat had nibbled out the cork leaving the red
wine flow unappreciated and hence the whole household, with that nonexistent
cat, is running after it.
Congratulations to the giants
of the game for taking away all the focus from a nation-wide cross generational
endemic, affectionately called corruption, by talking intellectual nonsense
about petro prices and FDI in retail. Thank you my enlightened brethren who
have made the white world their home, my dear formidable NRI role models, all
graduates from posh B-schools whose fees my hardworking and honest father could
not afford, for talking absolute ‘sense’ about the degraded Indian economy
which indeed is like the famished African refusing to sell oil for food. Thanks
for reiterating ‘enough is enough, let’s not talk of corruption and the coal
scam because the Indian economy is in dire straits’ so as to debate the
new-generation Big Bang that would conjure a new world where some of my privileged,
and intellectually blessed, friends would rule.
Now somewhere in all this
formidable discussion figuring jargons and graphs and numbers and dollar bills
and debt crisis and crude prices and what not, I – the average ‘common man’ who
earns say just over 20,000 per month and follows all these matters of grave
interest with great enthusiasm with the honest intention to understand, if not
participate, the process of running an economy- am getting lost.
Can anyone tell me how would
the Indian economy post this Big Bang benefit me? You see I am a ‘common man’ –
a term that the Indian political ‘class’ and the media at its service have
coined.
If at all words can depict
social psychology through binary, then this term – ‘common man’ or ‘aam aadmi’-
says a lot about how our politicians think. We are ‘common’, we are the
ordinary. Hence, we should have to bear the burden of unemployment, of the
ravaged economy, of inflation, of a quarterly rise in petro prices, of crammed
rail coaches, of bribery to get a passport processed, of power cuts, of traffic
jams while a convoy is passing. Vis-à-vis are the people who don’t come under
this definition ‘common man’. I mean the politicians, the business houses that
run governments and the well-paid national media.
Let me elaborate. All our netas would say this would harm the
common man, that was a betrayal of the common man’s trust, these are what the
common man does not want… Have they ever made a statement where they are a part
of this common man’s class? They are special. Aren’t they? So MPs get free
diesel, ride imported cars, own mines and businesses yet get subsidized delicacies
at the parliament canteen, have free homes in the national capital where there
is uninterrupted power supply, travel free with no queues for tickets and many
more. Please don’t forfeit these. After all we have voted you to and for
privilege/s. Take them, but don’t talk such rubbish about the economy because
you very well know that the money lost in these innumerable and shameless scams
and those dollars deposited overseas could have done turned all your promises
and planning to reality.
But why aren’t there any
efforts netaji?
Ah c’mon
man! Try to understand.
