Ohoi corporate

In the bookish, stuffy, insecure interiors, infested with poor little clerically educated funny Indians, of a publishing multinational company in Delhi, a farty, gayish, woman-bodied poor man sticks to his chair for almost a decade! His eligibility and skills: poisoning the ears of a bigger bitch who herself has God knows what means used to reach that departmental head position; giving negative feedbacks about his talented juniors; nurturing a servile intern because new joiners are not threat to his position; etc. One thing is clear, Indian corporate is infested with bottom-licking, non-creative, semi-skilled managers who are the products of a very poor system of education that just puts clerical eligibility in their little poor Indian brains. With severe leadership and team-building limitations, these insecure funny middle level managers, just think 24 hour a day to plot and scheme and strategize against any potential threat to their position. Unluckily Indian corporate is infested with semi-skilled insecure bosses who stink with their poor ass in their positions just by swiping away the careers of real hard-working subordinates. This particular poor little creature is barely a man in a woman-type body: A terribly vindictive poor little demon in his indirectly lethal ways. This he manages by gratifying the ego of a just-saved from spinsterhood, ageing woman. The latter is yet another perfect example of a vicious, vindictive, scheming modern ageing filly who knows which thing in her is of professional utility either physically or mentally. Just like any other poorly informed Indian, this gang of people with severe technical and editorial limitations also pays hypothetical lip service to secularism. There is an ever-crying Muslim soul in the company, who has to shed tears for atrocities on Muslims, about Modi’s genocidal plans against Muslims, etc., so all the fools are always supporting her despite nightmarish professional blunders. By helping her in the job, these enlightened Hindus think that they are the best secular species around. God knows when bigger plotters will join this particular publishing company and dismantle the hideous rein of that poor bitchy female and her gayish, half-woman subordinate!!!

Why Americans will remain the Lions of the jungle in the present century?

Do you think the chances to succeed and be a leader over fellow humans depend on somebody being good or bad? Most moralist theoreticians will cast their dye in favour of ‘being good’. Just look at all those who occupy the front ranks of society in terms of power, influence and money, you will soon realize being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ hardly matters when it comes to these successful social lions. What matters is the degree of fear, apprehensions, constrictions and restrictions all combining in an individual uniquely to make him/her weaker or stronger in both mind and body. Physical wellness runs a step ahead to make an individual stronger at other levels like in mind, attitude, confidence, etc. We can even summarize that less fearful means being stronger at various interpretational levels. So those who course away to distant glories are the ones who fear less, because they are stronger physically (foremost) and better mentally (mental interpretations of strength are just a subset of overall physical strength).

Learn from nature. It has all the clues. It holds all of its secrets in the open. It does not promote one species over others on the basis of being good or bad. It is just about the self-evolving scenario of the stronger surpassing the weaker. Weakest species are most in numbers. But these are also very limited in their level of participation in the whole drama. Mere numbers does not mean a larger role in the game. Had it been so, the ants would have ruled the roost in a forest, not the lion! The weaker a species is, more apprehensive is its each and every step under the cold, impartial glare of mother nature. Take for example a mouse. The moment it steps out of its hole, its heart pounding with uncertainty and fear, its nose twitching to sense danger, its cowering paws keeping it on tenterhooks! Where is strength; where is surety; where is determination; where is confidence; where is relaxation? It fears most, because it is primarily weak at the physical level. In proportion to its weak, fearful existence, it leads a limited life among few bushes and rat holes. If we move up, we get dogs, deer, jackals, wolves, etc., all of them having a larger role in proportion to their degrees of less or more fearful. Look at the lion! Watch its carefree gait, its confidence, its sure steps, its relaxing persona under the shade of a tree!! All these are derivatives of its fearlessness, of it being strong physically. Have a look at the majestic ‘I care a damn’ gait of an elephant and compare it with thousand deaths a mouse dies the moment it comes out of its hole. We have the same human variants in social jungle, the social lions, elephants, mouse, etc., depending on their degree of being less or more fearful!

Asians are producing more offspring, Indians and Chinese are doing it, Islamists are also adding to their stock like anything! Does it mean that with more numbers in their category, they will dominate! No it cannot be! From what we observe in nature, it does not look so. Poultry production compromises quality, instills fear, procreates weaklings, booms and bangs confidence, limits motivation. If it is not so, deer in larger hordes will roam freely in the jungle. Ever wonder why Americans, or for that matter Westerners, are hardy bothered about adding to their numbers. It is about maintaining a standard pedigree. Limited procreation has maintained a stable, strong, confident stock. And they rule the roost. Someone might say that with billions of numbers on their side, Indians and Chinese are acquiring a larger role and significance. They are! But they are scampering to crowded glory only in the grasslands. At a level where they can just be suitable paper crowned kings in the thoroughfare set by the top honchos. American system instills fearlessness in an individual by making them follow free paths beyond compulsions of conventions and socialized shit. Their top priority is staying physically fit, follow own path, stay independent, fearless. They are not bothered about wearing out body and mind just for future generations like Asians do and have no present at all. They do not have to carry the burden of conventionalized expectations to lose their present by being yoked in tiny duties and responsibilities. The former breeds leaders, the latter just numerous followers. With technological advancement of a few decades and choice-limited lion-type maintained pedigree, Americans will continue to run worldly affairs throughout the current century. The rest of the populous world will have its noisy crowded share of glories in a subordinate world. 

What went wrong??

So the muffler man Kejriwal does what has never been done before! More than reflecting over his victory, we can reflect over BJP’s set of mistakes.

It is good to have a smart, suave, presentable Prime Minister. But people will definitely follow a faded jersey clad muffler man if they find him pitted against somebody clad in royal clothes. So it was 10 lac suit against 200 INR muffler. Masses in India obviously chose the latter! India after all is a country of struggling, hungry, ill-clad masses. They sympathize with the underdog. Modi, the tea seller of the past, garnered sympathy in parliamentary elections. Now it is the time of muffler man to be made a prince from his castrated status of a mad lampoon. It was not for nothing that Gandhiji abandoned clothes to mix with the poorest of the poor. Modi has to look less exclusive! Indian masses are decades away from their appreciation of style and statement like the Americans appreciate the US First Lady's style. 

Never ever publicly declare your intention to annihilate your enemy. However strong reason you have to destroy him! The slogan of ‘Congressmukt Bharat’ is catchy, but injurious. Do your deed, but why repeatedly tell your enemy that you are going to annihilate him?! Congress is cornered. They know BJP wants to dismantle the party itself. So what is the option left for them? Their sense of victory right now can just be to help anybody in defeating BJP. They did it smartly in Delhi by shifting its votes to AAP’s coffers. They even know that AAP’s clout will increase at the national level. They are but very much comfortable with the idea that AAP gets 50 or 60 seats in next Parliamentary elections. Well and good. They are happy to lead corrupt coalition governments, unlike BJP that wants a one man show in India. So AAP emerging nationally is a step towards Congress getting one more partner in a future coalition government.   

When BJP started its all out campaign to wipe out regional outfits, I had this apprehension that all and sundry political forces, which hitherto did not see eye to eye, will cling to each other in short term to somehow survive BJP onslaught. This is what has happened in Delhi assembly elections. Congress, communists, janta dal, bahujan samaj party all allowed their vote bank to go under AAP's fold. Result! BJP getting the bitter political pill that will cure it of its paranoid political fever to color India politically in just one color! India is strangely unified in teasing diversities. Those who accommodate these divisions survive, and those who cross age-old barriers will come against unified opposition from various groups. Lesson is learnt: You cannot afford to neglect friendly regional forces. Having regional partners is a sign of your strength and legitimacy, not weakness. It is not for nothing that America that can singlehandedly wage war against whole world, still keeps small contingents of troops from friendly small countries! It adds to the legitimacy of its actions!

  

Another factor that has put BJP in a shady zone is a few personas emerging all powerful and manipulative. It makes a party look aloof from common man, creates apprehensions, puts it in a too lofty position at which common man looks with insecurity. Hope Modi, Shah, rajnath and gadkari pull strings in more subtle ways, instead of making it evident in high profile posturing in media. Let BJP, the party, be at the forefront at least in media! We can have more pictures of development works accomplished by BJP, and lesser full framed robust pictures of arrogant Shah walking majestically after press conferences. He can continue with his string pulling from behind the scenes, but it should not be evident in media. Amit Shah is also becoming too predictable in that he goes for religious polarization. He has to pull his strings differently now, and without high profile posturing in media.

Young educated part of Indian population is outright against religious rhetoric and extremist talk and posturing. Have administrators in your cabinet. Saffron clad jingoistic sadhus and sadhvis can catapult venom from other platforms, but if they do it from ministerial positions, then even appeased Hindu Gods would not save you from modern public’s anger.

Oof this secular shit in India!!!

It happens only in India! In the Brambridge Press, New Delhi Office, an innocent Hindu cow is mistreated, insulted and humiliated by a fierce Muslim zealot. It happens repeatedly, unjustifiably, without any professional reasons and without any provocation by the poor cow. The reasons are plainly personal. The Hindu holy cow sheds tears. The Muslim filly bites back with more ferocity next time. If the Hindu holy cow raises an issue, other educated Hindu lambs eating the grass of hypothetical secularism run to defend the Muslim houri. She has this shield. Caught in a difficult situation, she just has to shout the plaintive tales of Muslim sufferings in India. She is educated; pampered in office like a princess. Still she has endless tales of Hindu atrocities against Muslims to share. The secular shrimps, the educated chicken-hearted Hindus, ever so eager to prove they have read a few books, run with hanky to wipe her tears and mutter against their own religion. Earlier in the build-up of Modi wave that catapulted him to PM status, she was always splattering venom against Modi and was casting Nazi type holocaust of Muslims in India if Modi came to power. Now ask her, ‘Has Muslim population of India been sent to gas chambers?’ They are better placed than before! It can happen only in India! Only educated Hindus blinded by hypothetical lines of secularism can allow a Hindu cow to be bitten and smothered by a Muslim colleague! Kudos to Hindu secularism! Is there any overenthusiastic RSS or Bajrang Dal guy who can issue Hindu version of fatwa against this woman!!??

Chaudhary Devi Lal Ji Amar Rahein!

The maker of modern Haryana, Ch. Devi Lal – our Tauji – the Jan Nayak; the spirited non-conformist against the shadowy overtures of lopsided development at the cost of countryside; the man crowned with the unadulterated halo of farmers' interests.

          It is a matter of pleasure and pride to dedicate this write-up – these simple pen strokes of countryside nostalgia – to the Jan Nayak. I feel it is a Godly intercession in my little literary journey that I have'n provided the opportunity to hitch my tiny literary cart to the strong and swift horses of his legacy.

          There is voluminous testimony to the impressiveness of Ch. Devi Lal's calmly commanding personality. And if a son of Haryana – the karmabhoomi of our farmers' messiah – entails himself to the fag end of our Tauji's enormously elderly aura and legacy, then it should be forgiven and appreciated.

          The Jan Nayak's overriding benevolence has'n shining and will continue to do so endlessly through the rack and ruin of time. His unblemished character and works for the country's downtrodden have made his luminous memories firmly fade-less. Lustrous whirls of extravagant green decorated so pridefully in the agricultural fabric of this country will continue to inspire generations to come. His work, worry and weariness for the cause of rural India make him outstandingly standout amongst the rag-tag parliamentary disorder.

          Despite achieving so much at the highest level of Indian politics, he was uncommonly sobered; his simple, stout spirit, merry and mellow elderly aura made him immensely approachable to the people from the lowest rung of life. Where else would you find a Chief Minister, who dropped in by a poor hutment and heartily enjoyed the frugals offered like he had'n served with choicest delicacies from the costliest restaurant. Every settlement in Haryana happily cradles myriads of such sweet memories. By the God's greatest glory, he'd arrive at the scene mired in heartbreaks and dejection. And lo ! An encouragingly buzzing transformation would take place. His mere presence will sprinkle new life. His malleable sensitivity, kind and condescending behaviour, subtle and statuesque physique dispelled the disharmony and dispassion from the scene.

          We grew up in our village taking him the single synonym of all that 'politics' means to the children. Such has'n the sweeping scope of his charisma across the length and breadth of Haryana! That casual flightiness of flickering childhood can still clearly recall the grand impressiveness of his hold over the ruralites' psyche. While I was 13-year-old, finding me unconcernedly lost in the slow grandeur of childhood, my grandfather– a devout follower of the Jana Nayak – exhorted me :

          "You haven't yet learnt how to talk like a youth. At your age, Ch. Devi Lal not only spoke like a fiery youth, but acted like one also. At such a tender age of 13, he raised the flag of revolt against the Britishers and courted arrest for the cause of mother India!"

          It was then I got to realise the real force of his selfless valour, courage and conviction.

          Generic sacredness of his socially prominent policies, for which he life-longly lugged it out and lugged it in, made him the favourite son of Haryana's destiny. The Jan Nayak was compulsively attached to the cause of sons of the soil. Throughout his life, he ladenly slogged ahead, shouldering the responsibilities of those whose interests – up to that time – were politically sterile. And this cherished goal of his would never get off his uncomplaining shoulders till he left us. Even during his last days, his feeble, old eyes envisioned a golden future for the deprived and dispossessed masses of this country. A very-very old farmer whom I met in a bus broke down while he narrated the dreamy moments he shared with the farmers' messiah when the latter had'n bedridden by the inevitable and cruel hand of age.

          "His eyes were peacefully closed," the farmer told me about his life-long hero. "When I touched his feet, slowly but with sudden urgency his eyes opened. He had energy just enough to say few words and asked, 'How is it with the crops?' And then those big, passionate eyes were closed again, as if he was praying for me and the crops."

          Tauji's all-fired urgency had blossomed fresh morning's verve in the sublime-stillness of the traditional hinterland of Haryana. Yes! We as children have'n first hand witness to this silent revolution of 'coming of age of the ruralites.' His name connoted all that leadership, politics, elections and statesmanship meant to us. Far away from the hoot and holler, and flimsy vanities of 'utilitarian politics' the 'leader of common man' was selflessly busy in his mission. And later when his benevolently beaming imagery shone at the national level, perhaps for the first time this country came to understand and realise the real worth of the Jats, who have always been the bread earners of this big country, and who in return were uncomplainingly scraping a living — 'barely' — for their impoverished and almost famished families.

          It is a pungent irony that the mountainously-big legacy and stature of this great son of Haryana has proved to be too broad and comprehensive for the local literature to accommodate in its pages. May be it is due to the fact that literature is in its nascent stage in this traditional land of agricultural community. Inevitably and naturally, the myth and legend of the Jan Nayak is bound to grow exponentially, I think local literature must brace up its wordy effort to provide full justice to the great man's mission and philosophy. In my humble capacity, I've tried to take a few steps in this direction by paying literary obeisance to our Tauji. It has been a revealing experience, at the emotional level, to catch the glimpses of his memories in the poem titled 'Tauji'.  I feel privileged in dedicating this anthology to his cause and mission. These are the heartfelt songs from the land he worked for all along his immensely productive life.

          As all of us suffer from some stringent frailty. Yours truly is also no exception to that. If my poem 'Tauji' does not match the Jan Nayak's real greatness then this beginner deserves forgiveness. May be, time and experience will provide me the capacity to portray this great man's exceptional simplicity, magnificent profusion of his forthrightness, his unflinching righteousness and his fierce possessiveness about the cause of downtrodden and deprived.

          I hope my humble literary endeavour finds favour with the people of every caste, class and political spectrum, because history makers like our Jan Nayak belong to our common legacy and must get all encompassing reverence, gratitude and heartful salutation from each and every one of us.