Monday, July 27, 2015

The Jawa days of Mysuru



Some are quite connected to vehicles, there was once a bike known as Jawa. If you recall Yezdi, quite a popular bike in 1980s, well these were manufactured in Mysuru and exported too, now ofcourse the unit is closed and there are apartment buildings, the bus stop is still Jawa. Jawa craze is still around and every second Sunday of July they get together. Quite coincidently I spotted them on my morning cycling. I must add the vehicle is quite polluting. Craziness and nostalgia for the bikes withstanding, if they don’t follow the pollution rules, then should be fined.

Motor racing is big money initiated and sponsored event that the market media is duty bound to follow and report. Then there are compelling visuals of accidents that are another source of money spinning enterprise. As for Indian media this is how they claw themselves into world standard reporting. Pretentious Indians too are warming up to these ‘sports’, one mediocre fellow even manage to snatch an Arjuna award, the depravity of it. Another instance of how they manipulate and degrade awards. In the meanwhile people die too. Recently two british car racing enthusiasts fell straight into a deep gorge. They are investigating what went wrong; yep they must find out, it surely is a mystery. Why do normal people drive fast as they negotiate dangerous roads, indeed why should they be allowed to? And yes why do fast driven cars veer off the road? It is not supposed to, is it? The family and friend, meanwhile, insist on them being charming individuals. They seem to be, one of the fellow even wore a rabbit toy cap as he drove and pranked his own absurdity moments before he was consumed.

President is in town: if temple hopping was a sport (which it should be) then President Pranab should win it hands down, ostensibly he is in town to celebrate anniversary of education institution but our man is such an incorrigible hopper. As mentioned in my earlier blog this is how the power structure gives credibility to primitive, and this percolates down as social mobility frame and aspiration. This is how things are working out in this godforsaken society in the last many centuries. And then the world asks why Indians are such incompetent people? Essentially the question is for the elite since they are the one who have manipulated to the power and seek to represent Indians, indeed some even attained mahatmahood in the process.  Common people are much realistic and smarter but they are subjugated by these clever narrations and pitfalls, hence pushed down. Pranab quite easily ensconces into presidential trapping, that carefully emulates the british monarchy and feudal markers as tradition. It is also not surprising that, even inside the ‘Presidential palace’ the people who are selected to work are to follow certain criteria. And this was reported by Kasturi slave, the fellow from JNU reports that you have to be tall (okay acceptable) and belong to certain caste configuration (?!!). Shocking. This scoundrel from JNU (this blogger feels that JNU too needs FTII treatment, these pretentious primitive caretakers should be taken to task) expresses these as matter of fact. Over the years all the Presidents and minions (the so called leaders) have adhered to these legacies put in by our wonderful freedom fighters.

Rivers were source of reverence as representation of natural forces, the providers of life. These subtle ways were usurped as squatters pushed in their framework of clever ways and rituals to propitiate during auspicious time, hence blessings. Quite a money spinner that one, as also consolidated their position as mediators. They trapped common people in these vicious grip as traditions. To make the matter worse they, as is their character, sided with the rich and powerful, hence as common people rushed in to get blessing at appropriate time, meaning god is open for business, hence auspicious, powerful people were given precedence. As common people are pushed out to give way to the powerful there is a stampede, many die. A common phenomenon around here, an amalgamation of deceitful ways, the fight for opportune blessings, the cunningness of the mediators and the brazenness of powerful.

Pranab (as a President he is also referred to as Mahamuhim? Really, somebody please explain, when do we stop these fuedal references?) was recently seen at Tirupathi, that he got precedence over common people, and that he also posed for his cameraman, along with his son tells the same story of depravity. Did he find out who are the people who are masquerading as priests and what is their credential? Indeed every temple occupied by squatters is a site akin to Auschwitz, and that is mild comparison. Elites represented by likes of Pranab, who are working on their nicer ways as also secularism, need to be pointed out that on the contrary these are not, and that they are as primitive. He needs to civilize himself, these pretensions don’t help and will not work. And yes, welcome to Mysore Mr. President, I read that whole of Chamundi temple hill area has been cordoned off for thy celestial communion with the divine. I will be cycling towards race course around noon, please don’t cross my path.