POWER WITH RESPONSIBILITY

Saturday, May 16, 2009
Little Words _ "power with responsibility"

With great power, comes great responsibility, wrote Times of India in its today’s front page edit. From time in memorial, power has been the source of survival. The entire existence on this earth pursued the path of realizing ‘power’. Power meant different things to different people. In our mythology, power to protect was vested in gods, and likewise the demons made penance to grab power from gods to use in destruction of the very creation. The deadly virtues in form of jealousy, greed, lust are the bi products of owing this power.

I spent my day yesterday in front of the TV, watching NDTV 24x7. These guys did a great job of making your drawing room into an extension of their studios. As the sun rose in the east, the lotus started wilting and so did the owners of this flower. The real face of politics will emerge in the days to come, all those masks which covered the ugliness during the pre polls have been pulled down. We the people of this country, I am glad have arrived. We have shown year after year that we are continuously evolving in our nature and attitudes. We proved this time that we no longer are subservient to the whims and fancies of the likes of the saffron brigade, the red brigade and the goonda brigade. All of them are humbled proper and are given the taste of their own tactics.

Did you ever, I repeat ever, imagine Ms. Mayavati as the prime minister of this country? I dared to think of it one day, and all I could see; that people are converted to appear like the statues which were fondly erected allover UP by Ms. Mayavati. By what competence can she even think of the position?

By the way I heard Mr Karat saying in one of his pre poll meetings that the people of this country are living in a fool’s paradise. Indeed, I must say, when we are lead by the fools, certainly we would be living in a fool’s paradise.

Years back I used to think that if there is one State in this country which should not be existing on face this earth was Bihar. If it was so, I would have proved wrong today. Arrogance, another bi-product of holding power brought down many hallowed characters. History is the witness to it. Saddam Hussein, literally had to lick the dust. Beware; any of us can fall in this trap. And so are the great leaders of this State who are apologetic, not because they are humbled, but because they have no other choice. Stripped of the power, they will lick the boots of any one who has that power. Lalu emerged as the fore runner in accepting that he made a mistake. In the neighboring State of UP, the Yadavs and the Singh have over night turned holy, but their arrogance has not left its shade from their hide. They are waiting for a formal invitation from the Congress to help them in forming a stable govt (sic).

I live officially in Ghaziabad, UP, but I enjoy the weather from Delhi. A dirty road separates from the ‘order’. The roads in Vaishali can date back to the pre historic times. Thank to Ms. Mayavati who holds it onto the Yadavs and Singhs.


Finally, we know where we stand and what we deserve. I know for sure that there will be a corporate like order in governance and at least the lunatics are kept at bay. I voted for the continuity and development. I firmly believe that this country will soon be a power to reckon with.

Mr Somnath Chatterjee was so anguished and angered over the behaviour of the so called leaders in the parliament; he cursed them that they will loose in the elections. I don’t know how many of them lost their seats.

I hope the elected will not only behave but use their power with responsibility.