The Minute Things Lost in Farce

“The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.” 
― Gabriel García Márquez

Some of the recent farcical events make you think that what we as a proclaimed-democratic nation is one of the biggest jokes, sending a dreadful message to the sensible people that rationality, which was seemingly sprouting, never exists and criticisms, on which the whole idea of a democratic state is  supposedly built, could never enter our minds even though we get to see it everyday in printed form.

One needs not look that far to comprehend why this deep farce and its outcome apparently runs counter to every aspect of humanity. Some could say we have outpaced our peers and from the point where we are as a recognised emerging global superpower. Just like the once-drug paddler-turned special contractor and now an untouchables politician whose brutality and wealth is to be acknowledged.

Enter a high school and ask the senior students what they like to do next. Either medical science or engineering. And put the same query to college students, you will get to hear only two job-oriented courses. Why? Because you will have a job before you have even graduated, unlike their peers in other streams who have to walk through long so-called academic tunnels after their post graduate years in order to be qualified for a proper job, otherwise they would end up as some highly under-paid salesperson or doing some owlish job in a BPO, this could possibly become a thing of the past considering the developments in BPO industry taking place in the Philippines and the growing loud voices from Washington amid high unemployment in the US.

One could say that never in the history of mankind there has been a country so flamboyant and drunk on the success of its middle class population and countable super rich as India. 

The mere success in commerce and weight it has lent in global arena can't be considered the benchmark of human civilization. But this can be shown and make a fooled audience to believe that the success of aforementioned classes, which make up less a quarter of the entire population, is the real thing happening in the country, where no farmer commits suicide, no state is under draconian law like AFSPA, all the homeless and unemployed now walk in formal attires and are housed in glass-covered high-rise buildings in the country's Silicon Valley and other metropolis.

One's cynicism is embittered and the degree of it will only rise as long as farce prevails over the vital mechanisms of the country.


We didn't arrive at this overnight; this is the result of a prolonged decay which we have allowed ourselves, that we have never been intellectually capable to do constructive debates, we have only been pretending that every citizen is a Plato or Buddha when he or she is a wretched brute in reality dressed up in written democratic attire.

And this decay doesn't pop up to poke you in the tummy that you are rotting, and you will never get to see unless you are equipped with basic common sense. And when this stupid and self-contradictory display in front of the entire world makes one want to dig up and be buried alive.

What the PM with an Oxford-PHD and the Havard-graduate Home Minister did learn during their days in world's prestigious establishments? Or were their degrees only useful or applicable when they were working for money? Perhaps. What makes the scenario more gloomier is the fact that what the incumbents haven't done shouldn't be expected from those fundamentalists in BJP or other opportunists of smaller parties.

You couldn't expect a Finland in the country when the minorities are pushed out and overrun, and yet pick up only to caress when elections are around the corner. You couldn't go about the world preaching human rights when you have a millions of minorities aimed with rifles. You couldn't stand your grand holding the banner of a free country when the country's best painter couldn't even die in his own country.

These petty-looking things may be too insignificant when they surface when you are in the company of those who had led a mob to destroy a mosque like Babri and are still promising, in public, of doing more in the near future. No matter how minute they appear, they are the inevitable elements in building a modern democracy , answerable to its citizens, upholds the civilised democratic norms, and looks at things from diversified perspectives.

You could buckle down and harvest your political gains and enjoy the short ride ,and then let the country be another Afghanistan in the near future, or you could squeeze your own balls and shout, even though it will be out of sheer pain it will, at least, lend some weights.