Two top politicians from India and US were
communicating over hotline. During the course of conversation, the formal line
of dialogue spontaneously gave way to the informal (can read personal) elements of deliberations as they were in
comfort of the snoop-free zone and could take all the liberty to discuss
whatever they wanted to.
The formal elements of conversation are of no
interests (and so of no value) here. Out
of the informal chatter over hotline, the following pointers of the
conversation stand apart:
The US
counterpart:
It has been a chaotic time politically after the high of Osama’s successful
manhunt two years ago. Economy is still unstable. Budgetary managements are
giving nightmares. And security concerns add to that. The people act silly when
they don’t understand the dynamics of the national security requirements. Thankfully,
that fellow, the so-called WikiLeaks activist, the intelligence leaker Bradley
Manning has been found guilty with a 35-year prison term. Though yet another
so-called activist-but-fugitive-by-US-standards Edward Snowden remains a
headache, the Manning outcome has come as a big relief, a sort of closure.
After all, unlike in your country where you guys
have successfully manipulated and crushed dissenting voices from the masses,
something that we cannot do here even if we try hard, and so, such favourable
decisions (for us) from an
independent institution like the US judiciary is an endorsement.
But I must congratulate you folks for
manipulating and managing a democracy of over a billion people so well to keep
the masses under control in your over-populated country.
The Indian
counterpart:
Thanks dear younger colleague and my superior counterpart, though we, the politicians
of India, don’t consider anyone superior to us, but it is your powerful
position in the global geopolitics that makes us comfortable in addressing you
so.
I take your observation as compliment. Yes, it
can be said, ‘we, the Indian politicians’, can teach the politicians of the
world how to manipulate and manage the democracy for our own benefits, the
political class. In fact, I can outline the salient features of our hard-work
that the world can seek and emulate. Here they come. Please be attentive to the
‘sanctity and clarity’ of the hotline.
First one: We can efficiently
teach politicians from any part of the world the ‘art of mismanaging the democracy’ to manage it in order to
manipulate it.
Second
one:
Our achievement on this front stands apart as we are the world’s second most
populous nation with over 1200 million people that makes our task of ‘mismanaging and manipulating’ the founding
and governing principles of democracy a huge achievement. We inspire the
seekers of our ‘art’ by our sheer
ability to scale such a high.
Third one: We can be the good
learning examples for the monarchies and kingdoms in trouble (and not in
trouble) across the world.
We are the ‘kings’ here, in a constitutionally run
democracy. We have become unstoppable now. Our flow is unrestricted. With time,
we have been able to develop varying functional versions of policies, for the
political class and for the stupid masses.
We have successfully endeavored to interpret,
manipulate and subvert the policy matters to keep our political camaraderie flourishing,
to make our political class an extended form of a monarchy in glowing health,
where we keep the reigns among us only by a mutual cooperation and staged
variation.
Fourth one: We can also be the
learning reference point on techniques of ‘tough
approach of open confrontation’. There comes a point in emergency cases (and there come so many) where you need
to break the inhibitions of the staged democratic agreeability.
Such incidents have been aplenty in recent times
where we removed the mask and charged upfront when we needed to tell the masses
that we, the political class, were totally different from the masses, when we
needed to tell them that we were a privileged, superior and elite class, and
the law of the land that applied (to the
masses) didn’t mean anything for us.
And we have been, yet again, successful in
propagating this ballooning exercise to spread the message and so in
manipulating and crushing the voices of dissent that were there.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
