Monsoon of Madness
By- Pamarty Venkataramana
There was a curious little brawl going on between few ‘handles’ on a certain social media platform about a certain old woman who had turned stinking lucky a few decades ago (just as good old Cinderella had) flaunting a vanity bag studded with reportedly at least a couple of hundred diamonds and price tag too stated to be two and half crore India rupees!
There was another stray report of how that very lady of high position possessed a mobile phone studded with precious diamonds.
Even while someone was pontificating over the ostentatious woman as being anti-poor, a few others wearing the mask of Zorro pooh-poohed the criticism by defending a woman they would never be let into the precincts of her heaven-touching skyscraper of a residence by even her guard-dogs and the daunting electric-fence or bevy of bouncers positioned around the mansion!
So, was the one who criticised such a showpot just a jealous mad hater of the rich & famous? Or, were the ones criticising him merely because he was standing on the other side of the kabbadi court more irrational and wrong ?
This incident is an eye-opener to the brute power of propaganda unleashed in an era of wanton abuse of freedom in India 🇮🇳!
Since such box-items do not merit more than a cursory glance at the headlines, one does not bother to devote much attention to such attention-seeking paid-news or the tail-wagging poodles of semi-informed innocents who get groomed as crusaders of truth or even peace by a topsy-turvy unequal ‘society of equals’. Both are faulty and off the tangent of their existence: and co-existence too.
He who questions her is dubbed a creature of envy, spitting venom and casting malevolent looks at a bag that is as inconsequential and inconspicuous as the taxman’s boots.
They who counter-question him are as the little coin which when held close to the eyes blinds you to the mighty sunlight!
The critic is wrong since his lack of possession of that vanity-bag pulls his heart strings towards the hungry bellies of millions of compatriots.
The criticism of that critic is unjustified when one views the history, background and plain truth that the little woman’s hubby gets paid in US dollars daily in huge amounts (for oil supplied by snatching farmers’ lands and locking up government owned oil companies) and umpteen other buccaneer like activities which only the all-knowing sidekicks or the insiders of ‘ good governance ‘ century are aware about!
If a roadside pickpocket snatches your purse, the mob thrashes him black & blue disregarding the motive behind the act of ‘crime’.
When a chappie who once worked as a hand at a petrol bunk fathers a dynasty that turns Demi-gods and monopolistic outshining earlier monopolies, the daily acts of pilferage of national coffers via questionable practices turns into a national act of patriotism because the monopolist fuels a few babulog, a couple of major political parties, runs all media hogs and smiles condescendingly when few family owned charities are donated huge sums by him!
He’s not wrong. She’s not wrong. Their critic is not wrong. Nor, his critics who are defending her are wrong either.
The fault lies squarely with the crocodile 🐊 who shed tears while alive and is propelling many more human tears which are being shed – a few in painful envy and a few in joyous raptures.
It is not about communism nor communalism. It is not about capitalism nor crony capitalism. It isn’t about gross national treachery or about gross notional joys. This is just a ‘vanity-fair’.
The fruit-fly is the luckiest of all creatures on earth for the entire life-cycle lasts but a mere twenty-four hours. We humans undergo the cycles of Karma forever and ever until Moksha and Nirvana are both attained by letting a smart phone cater to our finer senses of compassion and condescension. The banyan tree witnesses all gory history of glorious human species.
All vanity goes in vain. No?
Each unto own.
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Who is this lady with bag?