With Malaise..

This is my second post and again it has great relevance with the first “Our Demeanour”.

Once, while sitting in the cafeteria and waiting for one of my colleague I got a chance to watch the MTV show “Bakra”, I do not exactly remember the show date but it was somewhere before 26 Jan.
To my surprise the theme of the show this time was “what is the relevance of the date 26 Jan in our History?” and the venue was some CCD in Delhi.

The anchor was designedly throwing the same ques on each table. Some said it’s our republic; some even went to the independence, but finally tsunami took over me when he went to the last table and threw the same Ques where a group of youngster’s (genx India) were having fun time celebrating one of their friends b’day.
The ans from a final year B Ed student was

“ I don know !!! Its a Holiday ### Who cares ...”

I no u all must be thinking whats the big deal in this... most of the people specially the youngsters like us have the same ans.. but y ?, the ans lies into the soul of INDIA..

What shld i say when a dear frnd of mine doesn’t know where Gujrat is on the Map of India. What shld i say when another one ask’s me the significance of Saffron, white and Green colour in our flag.

Note: Fortunately all my frnds are engineers and currently working for reputed IT industries of the country

All these chapters raised a ques in my mind – India had a freedom struggle of more than 150 years, also the most brutish one in the history of the entire world. Now, somewhere in some part of our freedom struggle our ancestors wld have played some role , or at least they would have witnessed the same period of inhuman dominance.

Also, u must agree that there is always a flow of legacy from one generation to the other in whatever context it may be..

Then which generation (50’s, 60’s, 70’s or the great 80’s and 90’s) failed to deliver the “great patriotic legacy” to their kinship group?

Indian History and geography is a mandatory part of basic learning in ever school of this country. We often have various journals and printed material available over Internet and books.

Then where is the problem?

Surprisingly, the issue is not whether we know anything about our country or not but, even then everyone of us always has something or the other to add whenever we talk abt the false policies of the government.. Pakistan and terrorism ... Gandhi’s responsibility of partition.. and the list goes on..
Who gave us the right to point fingers on political Hippocrates and insane Bureaucrats when we don’t even know that the ken of our knowledge is so small !!

Y don we find out the innovations and the possibilities of making this a better place ...

My dear frnd we got to do something over here...

Our Demeanor !!

Few days back I recieved a mind bobbling mail from one of my friend, the essence of the mail was so captivating that i finally decided to share it with u all... here it goes ...



"The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.



NDTV, BBC, CNN, AAJ TAK show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?



Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.

Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance).

Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bharat Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.

CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.

Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services.



The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.

Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.

CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '

Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.



Many years later... The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley,



100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India,

. ..AND

As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country !!!"



So, is this Our Demeanor? a nation full of Grasshoppers...