VADRA WHO?

Yesterday when I went to the Grand Hyatt, for my usual work out, some Ritesh Deshmukh was getting married.

Today using 5 stars hotels for marriages is in vogue but what peeves the regular guests, is disruption of their routine. Too many visitors, and too many photo-ops and of course chaotic parking.

And, all with aggravated severity if the context is of a VIP. And that it was, as the next day I saw the coverage of the marriage and all the celebrity invitees. The clown happens to be the son of the Ex CM of the Maharashtra.

There were about 100 pot bellied Maharashtra policemen lolling around in the lobby and entrance. They matter in numbers, as the purpose is not so much the security of the protectee, which actually they are not trained for. The objective is flaunt value and ego which the teaming number completely fulfill. If they were trained to protect, NSG would not be needed to handle just 5 Paki terrorist holed up in a hotel on the fateful 26/11. The entire Mumbai police witnessed the spectacle and in the process lost 2 brave officers without firing a bullet.

Today, Vadra's bike rally was stopped and the officer who committed the faux pax or let us say crime was promptly transferred. Who is Vadra, a small time Moradabad trader. And a CISF cop at the airport once told me, he has exemption from being frisked, and also immunity from his baggage being screened, a privilege reserved for heads of states. The President of India tops this list and it closes with Vadra at number 31, the latter being the total number exempt from frisking and the usual drill.

Woman raped in Orissa, and 4 months no FIR and no punitive measures taken against the erring officialdom. But in the same country, stop a VIP read Vadra and transfer is spontaneous. Shame on us!

If Dig Vijay Singh would read my blog, the stooge would order all departments to book cases against me. In minutes the income tax/excise, police or all that you can imagine would be chasing me and persecution would see a new high.

What I with particular poignancy regret is not about VIPs acting haughty contempt of rules or ultra vires to all principles and norms, the shame is about the people who jump with alacrity more than they show anywhere else to persecute on behalf of those who want to in some way or the other preserve their power.

Ironically, those who execute on behalf on their masters come from average and not VIP families. Yet they stop identifying and are not able to connect to the same background that they themselves hail from. If they could, perhaps they would never execute with brazenness and impunity, illegitimate demands of those who be in power. And this tacit resistance would eventually dissipate the demands put on them for meritless action.

How much longer will it take India to change.

THANKSGIVING

The Americans are good people. They kill Turkeys for Thanks Giving. Not horses or elephants or goats. So this confirms that they are good. Slaughtering goats is primitive and muslims do it and therefore Americans can’t.

Having worked with some Americans, I know, they are very systematic and really follow calendar.

As per that calendar, there is a day they earmark for remembering family and that they call Thanks Giving. So even if they don’t remember family for the rest of year, there is redemption. I pity the multitude of Turkeys slaughtered while they professes love for kith and kin. Now they are also getting more specific with Mothers day, Fathers day, and I am sure there will sisters’,cousins’ etc day following soon. Trust the merchants who find these days an opportunity to vend their wares.

I wish they pull a fig leaf from some more culturally evolved parts of the world and stop killing animals for emotional benefit.

But just before one of my puritan readers corrects me as much to write thanks giving as I have written to thanksgiving as it must be written, I must say, I mildly detest the way they maul language for their convenience.

This is one country, where they have a scant regard for grammar and yet have a multitude of Grammar schools.