A lot of nationalistic spirit has been revived in the last couple of days and one thing that strongly stands out, there are suddenly a dozen military experts. We are thankful to Abhinandan Varthaman’s family and salute his father who had to fend off intrusive media.
Interestingly, one retired armed forces person shown on regional channels was seen speaking with the photo of V D Savarkar in the background. While I don’t want to be politically incorrect, you get my drift. I just hope we don’t drift like the television channels. Some lowered the benchmark of journalism of this country even lower, I wished they had dug their graves instead. So on two channels you would have thought military and paramilitary officers were addressing the nation, but oops, turns out they were anchors in camouflage uniforms. Wow, didn’t know channels have in-house darzis. Top few English channels and few Hindi ones were shouting from their studios, wanting war. Now, what I don’t know is whether the head of the country has given this sanction to talk on his behalf or are they driving him to take military action, either way, members of both sides are seated in air-conditioned chambers and those fighting and dying are more dedicated.
But suddenly the blue-eyed star of my adolescent days, now head of neighbouring state after sounding like a buffoon for days on, swung the action like his bowling, craftily to his advantage. Sports is a winner and I fervently hope Sunil Gavaskar is soon made the head of diplomatic talks with Pakistan from here on. He is the only one who can, like in olden times, read the smart move of the head of neighbouring country and block the opponent’s move in a way that brings to mind another formidable cricketer of Pakistan, Wasim Akram. “Then one should watch Gavaskar who batted without helmet and was always right on top.” Time we were on top of things, if we want to deflect orange head meddling in our affairs, but I guess all this is tad late.
Who runs our country I wonder, yet again the Bombay High Court has come to the rescue of citizens. The judiciary has taken cognizance of the woes of our millions of Mumbaikars who have to bear the burden of travelling for hours. Even the fish are carried in better conditions, while here people are squeezed like sardines in local trains. So now the excuse of security concern has been washed away and HC said build jetties soon. I do hope there is no traffic jam of boats on the sea.
And how these Oscars came and went, so damp, sheh. Though lots happened on the sidelines. All ears for break-ups and new link-ups. By the way, the place to be seen, removed from is Instagram, so go get your account before that too becomes passé.
