(Written on the eve of India's Independence Day)
The celebration is on and right before the day's mid-night sun.
And there is so much gung-ho as ever. Right in the nick of the moment and in right earnest. With flying colours and mightbe with much fanfare, razzmatazz and razzle-dazzle.And with blaring of conchs and mouthful of words.
It is 60 years' old but is yet to come of age.
60 years but not come of age?
Actually it is over-aged but yet not come of age. That is, it is aged or over-aged in figures but not in spirits. The spirit is full of beans.
What is there if it is still going on all fours?
Going on all fours is the index of its true face, the baby-faced facade of its 60 years' encumbering is all too evident in the annals of its naive amnesia.
How amnesiac its patrons and guardians are!
Yes, they have buried everything into oblivion to salvage their well-earned salvation. They have forgotten the days of 1975 when the holy cow was solemnly sacrificed at the behest of the Almighty and the bleary-eyed ghost-writers kowtowed at the altar of omnipotence to face her face with white hair-line and to reinforce her cathedral by scripting a new manifesto of songs of freedom.
The sacred river was strewn with skull and bones. The insipid potion gradually turned gray with the tears of Auswisch.
Nobody bombed for the fear of freedom.
And culture of silence hit the rooftop in cahoots with more somber silence.
All the Goebels fell to talking tongue-in-cheek with open-chested breast-stroke of machismo.
History is to be glossed over, history is to be forsaken in the brown pages of history. The pages are all too tattered.
But history repeats itself.
Now again the same ghost-writers are acting like animals of the Animal Farm. crying themselves hoarse to glorify the songs of freedom for the same fear of freedom.
The songs of freedom are splattered all over, the dins and bustles are spilling over as usual as though they are racing one against another to show the world who is more equal than the others to be qualified for the olive branch in the Olympiad.
But they have forgotten that the 60 years’ toddler has failed to deliver the goods at the fair-price shop for those millions who are shedding bloods and sweats at the sweat-shops in excruciating diurnal drudgery.
What is that to them?
Nothing and nothing whatsoever.
They only know how to get paid in their own coins.
Everything dies. Only callous cash nexus remains for good.
The sweat-shoppers do not know how to sing songs of freedom.
The street-children do not know how to dance in tune with the songs of freedom.
They just ask silently.
They ask violently in deafening silence.
Yeh Ajadi Kya Hai? Jhuta Hai Na Sach Hai?
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