In the depth of a remote village came a group of entertainers named POLITrICkS. The group consisted of a bunch of magicians, body builders, acrobats and so on. The natives of the villages made its livelihood from back-breaking works equipping themselves in agriculture and related fields. Taking a break off their hard day to get entertained was quite relaxing, improving their morale and the people became very cheerful. Thus in a way, the entertainers were sort of doing a service to the society.
The vanishing acts, acrobats, dramas and power shows quickly gained interest among the villagers and became super hits. The entertaining group was gaining popularity and making good profit. They were consistently increasing the entry fee but people were ready to pay that price without much hesitation. Gradually the entertainment group became wealthy and started investing it in the land and properties of the same village.
The villagers not knowing what was happening at a macro level, gave away their assets either for small blown-up margins, or as a consequence of threats, and became dependants. The dependence ratio kept on increasing due to the ignorance of the people and over time, majority of the villagers were bound to the entertainers literally. Now the POLITrICkS were in control of things. They were the wealthiest as the entire village worked for them. They were the decision makers in the village as they owned most of the assets there. And they manipulated things as they wished, as the entire village was directly or indirectly dependent on them.
The vanishing acts, acrobats, dramas and power shows quickly gained interest among the villagers and became super hits. The entertaining group was gaining popularity and making good profit. They were consistently increasing the entry fee but people were ready to pay that price without much hesitation. Gradually the entertainment group became wealthy and started investing it in the land and properties of the same village.
The villagers not knowing what was happening at a macro level, gave away their assets either for small blown-up margins, or as a consequence of threats, and became dependants. The dependence ratio kept on increasing due to the ignorance of the people and over time, majority of the villagers were bound to the entertainers literally. Now the POLITrICkS were in control of things. They were the wealthiest as the entire village worked for them. They were the decision makers in the village as they owned most of the assets there. And they manipulated things as they wished, as the entire village was directly or indirectly dependent on them.
The condition prevailed but none dared to voice against it, such was the influence of the entertainers now. Things started to go out of control and people who were in support or part of the POLITrICkS Group did whatever they wished, as there was no code of conduct for them. When things went overboard, some folks started raising their voice against the POLITrICkS and its motive. Initially there were big agitations in unison against the deeds. Slogans were raised and agitations were noticed throughout the village.
Did this change the condition of the village? No way. The group said that they will look into the happenings and do the needful. For namesake, some actions were taken. The idea behind this move was to reduce the boiling point by eating time and once the heat subsides, the agitators could be dealt needfully. The effectiveness of this trick was so much that even people within the protesting group became tired of the frequent agitations and wait for action. The group started loosing strength and at the right time, the POLITrICkS Group tried injecting split into the agitators which to some extent was effective or at least induced doubt in the minds of supporters. Thus the POLITrICkS Group was in control of the proceedings.
Once the heat subsided, the initial face saving acts by POLITrICkS Group were taken back and their members started roaming free. Though the heat was no more intense, the strong agitations made the POLITrICkS Group cold and numb. Some people who were affected by the wrongdoings were determined to bring things to light. They realized that they should expose the truth without delay, bringing in the land grabbing and related profit making deeds of the group to the epicenter.
The sequence of events started to become a threat for the group. One jolt followed by the next became a little bit challenging to handle. They could foresee their downfall, if things prevailed and continued the same.
What is the solution for this? The solution was the same technique used to make appear a big line small. That is, just draw a bigger line near it. Thus the group decided to ignite a fire that catches wild and grows big enough that all other things goes out of focus. Down the southern end, a commotion between neighboring villages was flamed up and situation in both villages started to become sensitive. People started reacting emotionally and without logic. Of all the tricks played till then, the current trick, playing with the sensitivity of the issue between the two villages became a big success. None were bothered about the wealth misappropriation or the land grabbing. Everyone in the village were keen for each others' blood on misguidance. Time was running away from the villagers as they indulged in unwanted activities rather than working for their prosperity. After a few days of fight and bloodshed, people became tired and realized that their normal life has been hampered considerably and decided to return to their root, but by then all the initial unity and togetherness for the common cause had gone with the wind. POLITrICkS magic worked again.
“We don’t belong to that village who were ignorant, who doesn’t have highly equipped communication system, or who didn’t have even basic education, right??? No one will ever dare to try the same with us because we are the Hi-Fis of the world till date, correct??? When everything happens at the click of a button, how can any POLITrICkS Group play their magic on us, right!!! All the wealth of information is always available at our service, so how can some one misguide us, correct??? When the world has been shrunk more than one can imagine and has become a place where everything can be understood as first hand information, how can someone over smart and fool us, right!!! If we are overconfident about ourselves so much, then it is time to rethink. Let's use the resources and figure out how many times we were made to look nonsensical but still gone unnoticed by us. Just go back and look at what the groups that were supposed to serve the people had really done to us, right from the list of scams to tension between states in the name of disputes from aqua to air. Basically we continue to be those villagers who are exploited in every possible way and the POLITrICkS Group continue to play their trick on us in the form of the vanishing acts, sympathetic dramas, muscle power, groupism and so on. The magic continues and we fail continuously to notice it.….
If the greatest poet of Tamil Nadu, Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi, was still alive, probably he would have again chanted the lines from his poem Endru thaniyum intha suthanthira thagam? Endru madiyum engal adimayin moham? the meaning of which goes thus…
“When will this thirst for freedom be quenched?
“We don’t belong to that village who were ignorant, who doesn’t have highly equipped communication system, or who didn’t have even basic education, right??? No one will ever dare to try the same with us because we are the Hi-Fis of the world till date, correct??? When everything happens at the click of a button, how can any POLITrICkS Group play their magic on us, right!!! All the wealth of information is always available at our service, so how can some one misguide us, correct??? When the world has been shrunk more than one can imagine and has become a place where everything can be understood as first hand information, how can someone over smart and fool us, right!!! If we are overconfident about ourselves so much, then it is time to rethink. Let's use the resources and figure out how many times we were made to look nonsensical but still gone unnoticed by us. Just go back and look at what the groups that were supposed to serve the people had really done to us, right from the list of scams to tension between states in the name of disputes from aqua to air. Basically we continue to be those villagers who are exploited in every possible way and the POLITrICkS Group continue to play their trick on us in the form of the vanishing acts, sympathetic dramas, muscle power, groupism and so on. The magic continues and we fail continuously to notice it.….
If the greatest poet of Tamil Nadu, Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi, was still alive, probably he would have again chanted the lines from his poem Endru thaniyum intha suthanthira thagam? Endru madiyum engal adimayin moham? the meaning of which goes thus…
“When will this thirst for freedom be quenched?
When will the desire of a slave die?
When will this shackles on our hand go away?
When will our sufferings get exhausted?
Oh God, who came to make the country of Bharatha then,
Oh God , who supports the life of a gentleman
Is not the support given by victory, your grace?
Is it proper for these true slaves to fade further?”
Let’s render our basic duties properly or a day will come when we are slaves again, but within our country by our own people.
Om Asatoma Sadgamaya,
Tamasoma Jyothirgamaya
Mrithyorma Amrutangamaya
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
When will our sufferings get exhausted?
Oh God, who came to make the country of Bharatha then,
Oh God , who supports the life of a gentleman
Is not the support given by victory, your grace?
Is it proper for these true slaves to fade further?”
Let’s render our basic duties properly or a day will come when we are slaves again, but within our country by our own people.
Om Asatoma Sadgamaya,
Tamasoma Jyothirgamaya
Mrithyorma Amrutangamaya
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
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