Sadar Pranam,
THEY call you a Dynast, a Pappu, a hybrid Bacchda, a failed, if not, part time politician, a blabbering duffer, a pesky flea to be swatted at each buzz , an unwelcome, dissonant whisper in a sybaritic, sycophantic national symphony.
But you don’t look it, that’s for sure.
Else why would THEY howl ,growl, seethe with rage , gnash THEIR teeth and let loose THEIR ED/CBI/IT/GST bull terriers upon you ?
Is it your patent sincerity, the dimpled smile, the incipience of an ambitious politician THEY see in you and one who obdurately refuses to wither away in THEIR forbidding presence, that ruffles THEIR feathers ?
Is it your naivety that affords them opportunities to lampoon, trash, trivialise you ? Must you pepper your 57-minute media interaction with ‘strategy’, ‘strategic’, ‘strategically’ 34 times when THEY are still learning the ropes of strategy ? Should you demand a roadmap when THEY are still learning to spell it out ?
When the Chinese army intrudes to possess hitherto uninhabited areas within or near our borders you have this obnoxious habit of jolting THEIR amour propre. You ‘mindlessly’ point to dangers posed by Chinese pursuit of a Chanakya neeti ( the eclectic Chinese draw on all sources of military strategy not just Sun Tzu ) that first nibbles at the periphery to gradually conquer the heart. Not too fanciful a thought considering that usurpation of Aksai Chin began as far back as 1949 to reach its culmination in a ‘Chinese’ drawn McMohan line in 1959. Nothing of Aksai Chin was left by then for India to defend in 1962.
You can redeem yourself by enacting a ‘Shatranj Ke Khilari’ and escape to the safety of ‘away’, away from the boom of Chinese kettledrums. That’s what patriotic citizen do and that’s what THEY want you to do.
But how did you get into this imbroglio in the first place? Aren’t you proscribed from talking about China, a disability foisted upon you by your Nana losing 40000 Sq Kms to them ! Being a Nehru, the sophistry of ‘Differing Perceptions’ that the architects of Shining India invoke today isn’t available to him even now. Nor the compulsion of having to accord primacy to rebuilding, modernising the moribund economy and inducing redistributive justice from severely limited resources ; or the extenuations of an underprepared, underarmed, vertically vivisected Indian army yet to reap the benefits of defence production infrastructure in the making , and drained from its multifarious civilian duties in relief and rehabilitation and dousing the embers of communal fire oft rekindled by toxicity of Hindu-Muslim antipathies of any avail to a Nehru.
You know all this. As a true ‘janewdhari’ nationalist you must boost , not mar, THEIR image. Between a 100 Sq Kms or so under disputed ‘perceptions’ now and 40000 Sq Kms perceived and lost earlier is a tremendous leeway. A few sq Kms of pasture land lost here and there isn’t tantamount to Differing Perceptions morphing into Conferring Perceptions. Rest assured, more than the guns THEIR ‘moohtod jawab’ will do the trick.
Further, your empathies lie on the wrong side of the economic spectrum and never with the suit boot ki sarkar. Disowned by locals, unowned by THEM the woebegone migrant labourers had only their karma to blame. THEY so believed. By seeking to give moral succour to the distraught, bedraggled men, women and children walking barefoot to destinations thousands of kilometres away and to a bleak, uncertain future on geysering, desolate roads, penniless, hungry, stoically enduring their fate for a better afterlife, you were again caught wrong-footed. The migrants were to stay put and survive or perish instead of making a public spectacle of their misery and sullying THEIR image and THEIR karma.
And bear in mind you only babelize THEM by interacting with academic eminences about Corona and Economy. What can they tell that THEY do not know ? If THEY were not consumed by wisdom would THEY have dared to interrupt the economy twice without due consultation with stakeholders ? THEY know everything about everything. THEIR’s is a limitless repertory, the Akshay Patra of wisdom. God has that way been very unfair. Is it then a wonder that so many fawn obsequiously and react obstreperously to you ?
Sorry, I have taken much of your time. But it helped me to feel light, so crave your indulgence in writing to you again, if need be.
A well wisher.
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