“Sacred Games” by Vikram Chandra was more of a shock to me when I read it two years back. But I had never imagined then that 2 years down the line I’ll see it turning into reality. Such a filthy game of Hatredness, Communalism or just to curb it in a single word “POLITICS” In a police ruffling revelation this week, a sadhvi (in Hindu mythology sadhvi is female of sadhu which means holy man, sage or ascetic) along with other group member is exposed as a suspect hand in Malegaon bomb blasts- A blast which was supposed to be a part of chain blast of much rampant in-line bomb blasts by some newly formed Muslim jihadist group “Indian Mujahideen” (now I doubt if this group do exist in reality or has been architected by some organisation like sadhvi’s and associates to create more hatred towards Indian Muslims like has been elaborated in Sacred Games.)
Sacred Games was written based on high research though it was taken into category of Fiction …again to avoid any controversies and attacks by real culprit to make the life of author miserable. Apart other stories running parallel, the book emphasised how a very renowned nation’s Hindu guru used his devotees (including ‘ a Don’) to float fake currency notes in country combined with fake formation of some muslim group pre-fixed with “Al” and the alike who sustained bomb blasts in all the cities across the country where Bombay was on the top hit list. Mind it these groups were not of Muslim jihad origin but they were concocted by this Hindu guru to spread a bad image of Muslims. And this fake currency was popularised as to be backed by ISI. On being confronted with such paradoxical image of religious guru, Don raised a question. And this guru (Shukla) candidly retorts it, “Does spiritual advancement mean that you shouldn’t take the weapons”.
More to my horror I heard an eminent minister defending sadhvi with the argument that this is something which is inevitable as government seems to be mute on eradicating terrorism from the country. And now Hindus have to come forth to save the nation. So my dear minister I would like to remind you that it was only your external minister and government who escorted two very strong terrorist to their release in Kandahar plane hijack. And moreover when you know your marathon is for genuine motive than why do you masquerade as Muslim groups in such mission. A fake identity is posed by one who knows about his wrong intentions. Why don’t you form some group like ‘Indian Hindu league” or “Bharat Rakshaks” and show India that you are there to wipe bad elements from the country? I wonder who will now rise to eradicate this new Hindu terrorism.
The book has all that could shake you to real pro. Sometimes I feel that I could have not read that book then I would also have been happy as I could have believed in our honourable ministers, esteemed police and what these so called terrorist reveals through their identity and mission letter specifically written in Arabic or Urdu which our efficient police produce from their pockets within seconds when they die during attacks. What do we call as “Jahaalat mein sukoon he…Bekhabri mein aafiyat he” (In illiteracy is respite and ignorance is bliss.)
Yet another political strategy was Gilchirist autobiography which claims Sachin to have practiced false statement as a witness to Harbahajan-Symonds Conflict. In the season when Sachin is almost an apple of everyone's eye after making a world record no one seems to give it a second thought but just a publicity stunt by Gilchirist to give book a hit. In Bhajji-Sreesanth slapping scene during IPL whole country give one-sided verdict that Bhajji is too short tempered and has slapped Sreesanth. No defence…no Second thought! Where was this feeling of short temperedness evaporated when Bhajji was accused of saying Symonds ‘Monkey’. All country didn’t want to hear anything except Bhajji is innocent…And for the same racial comments saga when Jade Guddy was accused to use them against Shilpa Shetty no one give an ear to Jade Guddy though she was pleading again and again that she was innocent and have not used such words. It’s so good to feel that we Indians are always RIGHT.
Though I don’t know if Gilchirist is making a false statement or Sachin has but I still can believe if either of them have lied in this case because every one save their family first- it’s a human nature. A single or group of people can be wrong but what about the nation’s voice. Even our nation’s voice …I mean media is also not racist when leading channels like Aajtak and Star News, IBN takes proud in using ‘kangaroos’ for Australian cricket team. (I doubt if I have forgotten the meaning of racial comments or if I never had privilege to learn when things are racist and when they are not). Probably these statements are not racists as all channels vocalise them so loud without any hesitation and they might be inspiration for Harbhajan. A lost memory somewhere when he was on cricket pitch tempted him to use ‘monkey’ (Thanks to media, the nation’s voice---he might have forgotten the name Symonds there but having heard media using words like monkey …kangaroo he came up with the same.) Yes, Indian’s are never wrong!
A family suicide somewhere in America after a lay off exercise by company, Jet Airways terminates 1000 employees approx all of a sudden, Kingfisher airlines slashes salary from two lakhs to twenty thousands, Accenture, IBM and other IT company’s cut down the employees intake and the list goes on. First people loose money like heck in shares then in gold and perhaps will for sure loose in dollars in sometime… this is how I can relate the after effects of sensex.
Sensex- the word is quite an enigma at least for me. How can a single company (Lehman Brothers) going bankrupt far away in America make a hit on stock and shares, on us and on everybody? It’s like when America sneezes everybody catches the cold. I don’t know how economy goes bleak with devastatingly falling share prices. I know in the terms how it affects public at large. To what I can comprehend in the preceding weeks which shows sensex downfall and predicted recession is that it means high production and consecutively low purchasing power or loss of trust of public so they don’t spend their bucks in purchasing manufactured goods. Production is more than required. Hence contraction of industries lowering into number of employees which results into unemployment. And this is how recession knocks the door of the economy. It’s a vicious circle. Indeed economy is a vicious circle. A popular economist explicitly says that in every 100 years a great recession (like 1930’s) is sure to happen and the time has come. It’s Now! So are we ready for it?
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