Various "leaders" of our great country have come out and appealed for peace, harmony, and the prime minister himself has even asked for "tranquility" in the wake of the expected verdict of the Allahabad High Court over the title suit of the land on which the Babri Masjid once stood.
Right this moment, we don't have a great deal of peace or harmony in our country and tranquility can only come with a tranquilizer to most of us, but we're certainly not ready subscribers to riots, disharmony or destruction. We're too lazy for any of that because it takes initiative and action, but that is something else.
What I feel deeply insulted by is the assumption of our leaders across all parties and persuasions that we really give a fuck about this verdict of a piece of land being politicized by some idiots up north. I cannot believe the lunatics who have the time for this shit. We just flushed 70,000 crores into something called the Commonwealth games in which the average Indian does not have a damn to gain, and we didn't give a fuck, so why will we get angry if a piece of land goes to a mosque or a temple?
Our elected leaders must have such a twisted picture of us in their minds. Us - the average, everyday Indians. This picture must be so twisted or Disney cute in their minds that they must imagine we're not capable of any sophisticated thought, and that we would collectively rise to dispute whatever verdict comes out, knowing fully well that the damn verdict is going straight to the Supreme Court one way or the other!
Doesn't the average Indian have anything better to do? A whole generation has come to pass since that deplorable monkey dance breaking fest that took down the Babri Masjid. We didn't really give a shit then, and we didn't give a shit even when that day was supposedly avenged by the fanatics on the Muslim bench through terrorist attacks.
We have thrown out the BJP lock stock and barrel because of their dogmatic and zealous religious nonsense, and really shown the door to pretty much everything that threatens any fabric of this idea called India. The average Indian does not have to be appealed to in order to maintain what he knows to maintain - status quo. If we should be woken up, forced into action, forced into virulent, violent action, then, we need to hear this sort of appeal. Not if we need to let bygones be bygones - that from our inherent apathy, comes naturally to us.
Even this apathetic status quo has come at a price. We have seen every issue in this country be politicized. We have seen every idealistic notion be torn to shreds by rotten politicians, most of whom we would not even hire to feed our dogs in our absence, leave alone water the garden. We know the stench of corruption and cheap behaviour when the flame of the Commonwealth games is snatched by politicians hungry for TV time and our athletes don't even get to touch it.
We're demonstrating every single day how much crap we put up with, when our champion boxer's bed collapses at the games village, and there is not one day in 365 when all our trains may run on time. By the way, they did, during the infamous Emergency period! We're a country where the most normal shit happens normally only during a period called "Emergency". So, why the fuck would we give a shit about some abnormal historic shit that happened well before we became this nation called India?
Some of us do, for sure. But these are the monkeys in the political parties that want to return India to prehistoric days of glory. Not many of them realize that history in those days was very probably written by historians paid by the kings themselves. Or else, what are the chances of all 537 kings in India being generous, thoughtful, wise and helpful to people? They even fucking planted trees and dug ditches, encouraged sculpture, arts, and scientific research and medicine, and had this phenomenal grasp of astronomy, philosophy and what not. So how come we're such a fucked up country now? All fucking bullshit. Hedonistic rascals would have made sure their in-house historians wrote good things about them. There must have been the occasional great ruler, but most of the kings in this land must have been fornicating big time when everything went to ruin around them.
We the people of democratic India, trust a new set of leaders every now and then. We trust them to be smart, somewhat capable, and short of raping our mothers and burning our homes, we are okay with them looting and plundering this country in every way possible. They don't seem to know us at all, because, hey ho! They're not even freaking interested in us! If we disrupt normal life because of some inspirational uprising, it might be a problem for the real looters to get in on their usual action. That is all this appeal is for - "Oh, people of India, don't let this pesky little verdict suddenly make you pay any attention!"
I am pissed mad because this appeal is being made at all. It is an insult to the peace loving nature of the average Indian. Our peace is invaded on a daily basis because of corruption, bribes being demanded, infrastructure not working properly, and nobody in government being held accountable. It does NOT get invaded by a stupid verdict that decides who gets a piece of land, especially when that land is small in size, invisible to the vast majority of the population, and in any extreme situation, is going to hold a piece of worship. We're not zealots. We don't give a shit. And for once, I am proud of this.
BSK.
