Have a look at this picture, what
is being poured on that dome shaped stone (whatever maybe the religious
symbolism here is insignificant so is self-propitiating rituals and selfish
crude conceptions) is not white coloured water. It is milk, that coloured water
could not symbolise milk is amazing. In the degraded world symbolism has been
assigned specific context! I am sure many of us feel distressed when we waste food, or see it being wasted. Not for the people posturing as guardians
of this beleaguered society, and not ironically in a space that is supposed to
provide moral-ethical context. It is an amazing degradation. Now place that in the
context of a country with stupendous level of disparities and extreme poverty,
where millions live in absolute misery, also note that this fellow here is in his
capacity as President of the country, the first citizen (or senior politician,
Union Minister, for last many decades. It needs to be noted that since the
period he was Finance Minister disparities have only increased. This breast
beating for India’s economy in the last few days is nauseating). What is he
trying to showcase? What kind of behaviour is he seeking to spread? How can a
person be so reprehensibly irresponsible, so bloody insensitive? Shouldn’t these
crimes be coming under the ambit of anti-superstition law and dealt severely? Secularism
can never be, and will not be allowed, to be the redemption for these serious
breaches.
India is home to largest number
of hungry and malnourished people in the world. According to Global Hunger
Index India ranks 67th among the worst 80 countries in terms of
malnutrition with 213 million people (FAO puts it at 230million) in “serious
hunger” situation, their diet lacks quantity and quality, they go hungry and are
severely malnourished. If that doesn’t help to get the context the situation is
worse than countries like N.Korea and Sudan. World Bank data indicates
that India has one of the world’s highest demographic of children suffering
from malnutrition, it is double than that of Sub-Saharan Africa. 44% of
children under the age of 5 are underweight, 72% infants are anaemic.
So this is the
reality of this society, and now let’s understands what is being wasted with
any care or concern. Milk contains up to 16 nutrients that are essential for
health. A glass of milk (200ml) contains several important nutrients that include
calcium, protein, iodine, potassium, phosphorous, vitamins D, B2, B12 so on. It
obviously means that people are not able to afford these, milk is beyond their
reach, it is precious. I too recall, during childhood, milk was strictly
rationed and surely not something that can be wasted. And the state/region
where this criminal waste is being committed is worst on the scale, meaning you
can further downgrade the above mentioned data. Imagine passing through all
these heart breaking miseries and deprivations into the sanctum to commit this.
Are these humans?
Go back to the
picture again, see those fellows around with grimy threads judiciously
showcased out of their undergarments, as if as a sign of some kind of achievement.
Think of sick mindset that works like this, that too inside the sanctum -supposedly
holy. Something only likes of Mukherjeejis and depraved minds can fathom and
acknowledge, we ordinary people don’t understand these nuances and camaraderie
that sprout with it. Seriously, we don’t want to either. Quite aware that,
despite best efforts to trap people, world is not this putrefying pit. Also
note that there is a Air Force official in uniform watching the proceeding with
amusement, possibly bewildered if he is ruminating over why he joined
AirForce. Is this his duty? Is it right to use defence personnel, state
officials and state machinery for personal purposes, that too something so very
sickening and morally unbecoming? So much state money is invested on this
fellow, by what is essentially an impoverished society, and look what he is
upto. Last but not the least, what is cameraman (camerawoman can be ruled out,
if ever there will be menstruation tests to tackle the lurking impurities in
the pure and purifying world and the blessed purifiers at the helm!) doing
there, in what is surely an enviable angle for shoot. Clearly these are all a
set up, and wily Mukherjeeji is adept in his game. “Astute politician” is the
word that is used as a euphemism for these embarrassments.
