Inertia - The Theorem And The Proof - Anish Vyavahare, Mumbai

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Soon we will be facing the elections. More probably than not, the Mumbai terror attacks will not be a real issue on the election agenda. After all, the thinking Mumbai lot is too little to be a votebank. Who is going to care about us?

Get into politics people say. Because politics need good people like you and me. Unless we get into politics, how do we know whether we are good or not is the question. Secondly, who is going to fund our campaign? Thirdly, will we be able to handle the hooliganism and threats to our lives and families? In an Utopia, I would have easily entered politics, but then again, I wouldn’t have needed to coz it is Utopia.

The public is feeling very potent after having ‘made’ a few ministers to resign. Foolish that it is, the public doesn’t understand or maybe chooses to ignore the fact that such resignations are futile as well as attempts to divert attention and release a little steam from the boiler.

Poor RR Patil, because of not being street smart, lost his position in the Vidhan Sabha. He might have said the wrong thing at the wrong time, but he is not a wrong man. He is one of the best politicians available in the country. He doesn’t even have a flat in Mumbai after being a Deputy CM for 4 ½ years, his kids still attend school in his small village Anjane and he has applied for a place in Mumbai by filling the necessary forms. These and other things show that he is a clean man at heart. God knows we need such ‘good’ people in politics. But, we I guess, prefer just those with a gift of gab.

We are already back to watching Breaking News, surfing for especially those involving Bengali baba predictions, half naked women and silly politicians making sillier allegations and even sillier competitors. The news media definitely needs to be brought to book. For heaven’s sake guys, you are telecasting news which is for information, not entertainment. Not even infotainment. Please.I wanted to say this out loud too, on TV, in newspapers and on the radio. The media guys did not really like my idea.

We need to do ‘something,’ is the feeling in the common man’s mind and the common woman’s bosom. There are simple things we can do to take care to see that such things don’t happen. We can let security agencies ‘hassle’ us by checking our baggage at malls, restaurants, airports and railway stations. We can ask for a fellow passenger/ shoppers identification or notify police of anything suspicious. Not too many people are excited about either of these things. But we need to do ‘something.’ Definitely.

But there are more ‘exciting’ things to do. Where do such terrorist outfits get funding from? The answers have been out there for decades. The money they use is drug money, petro-dollars, films and construction. Will we stop watching films though? Will we stop taking drugs? Will the Goa government really crack down on drugs in the state and lose their tourism revenue? Will we switch off all our appliances when we do not need them so that less oil is used in producing electricity? Maybe we will. Most probably, it just sounds good to hear that there are so many things we can do. Will we? Let’s not ask and let’s not get disappointed.

But there is a lot of hope you see. Maybe, one day, a dictator will rise amongst us. Or maybe a comet will crash into the earth and annihilate us before we manage that on our own.