INDIA ENTERTAINING UNLIMITED
Ruskin Bond, the famous British writer, living in Mussorrie, India, was once asked why he preferred to make India
his home.He replied ‘because one may die in India due to any number of reasons
but boredom is not one of them’. He explained that India is a vast country of
many hays and colors and something interesting and entertaining is happening
here 24x7 which gives him enough material for his writings.
I think we all will agree with this. India is said to be so
many Indias within India. With over 26 languages and innumerable dialects,
cultural vivacity, political opinions and diverse food habits, India is a huge
Corporate which I call “India Entertaining Unlimited’. Let us take a few recent
picks:
Jayalaitha goes to jail in disproportionate assets case but
people are talking of her 2000 pairs of shoes, 10000 sarees and of course boxful
of jewelries. She was a film actress, a successful actress at that and she was
also a ‘friend’ of the great MGR. I do not understand what is the big deal
about shoes, sarees and jewelries. If people want to get entertained, so be it.
Take the case of another madam Mayawati, ex CM of UP, called ‘behanji’ by her supporters. She
too has over 2000 pairs of shoes, 5000 ladies bags, 1000 diamond ear rings and
tops and of course equal sets of ladies salwar suits to go with that. Once she
sent state aircraft to Mumbai to fetch the imported shoe consignment to
Lucknow. She was neither an actress, nor a successful advocate for which she
trained but she had millions of supporters who voluntarily contributed to MBDF
every year. She was also a favorite of
Kansi Ram, the founder of BSP by virtue of which she inherited his wealth. I
again wonder what the big deal about her shoes, bags, ear wears and suits. She
has only provided some grit to the rumor mill.
PM Modi launched SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN and cleaned the roads. So did some ministers
and high ranking Government officials. Today our Cricket God Sachin Tendulkar
also took to the broom. A very good start. I wish if they could clean the
garbage lying for days behind the residence of our ex PM, MMS. But that would
have been showing some favor to MMS and Media would have speculated if he too
like Shashi Tharoor is joining BJP. No one is talking about the regular safai
karamcharies who clean the garbage of these broom holders round the year.
Maharastra and Haryana are going to polls on 15th
and a good bye has been hailed to alliances. There remains to be seen who
sleeps with whom after the results are out. Every one is keeping the options
open. Politics is the name of possibilities and it hardly matters with whom you
slept with and who really is the father of the child.
Feel free to add more entertaining news. There is no dearth
of it.
