Friday, March 6, 2009

Hey Ram! Is Gandhiji Happy?

Vijay Mallya successfully bid for the Mahatmas belongings'. The priceless articles have been finally brought to India by an Indian at a price of USD 1.8 million approximately Rs 9 crore. There was a hue and cry (over the auction) in the media, intellectuals fumed and the young were discussing the pity state of affairs over a drink in the pub. Well, not knowing that the drink they are buying is really helping get the Mahatma's belongings back to India. Without knowing, millions of Indians contributed billions of Rupees, over years, to help Mallya grow. Help Mallya grow to a stage where he can 'save the pride of the nation'.

'Mallya saves Gandhi's heritage', says a header of a television channel, 'Mallya comes to the nations rescue', says the other. On the 140th birthday of the man who changed the world, the memorabilia may reach the samadhi at Raj Ghat but will Gandhiji accept it. Will Gandhiji's soul be happy. Read this, this is what Gandhiji wrote six months before he died.

“I hold drinking spirituous liquors in India to be more criminal than the petty thefts which I see starving men and women committing and for which they are prosecuted and punished… I advocate the summary punishment of those who manufacture the fiery liquid and those even who persist in drinking it notwithstanding repeated warnings. I do not hesitate forcibly to prevent my children from rushing into fire or deep waters. Rushing to red water is far more dangerous than rushing to a raging furnace or flooded stream. The latter destroys only the body, the former destroys both body and soul.”

"I advocate the summary punishment of those who manufacture the fiery liquid..." Well Mahatma the nation is celebrating, the nation is celebrating the successful bidding of Vijay Mallya of your possessions on the land against whom you fought your entire life. The nation is proud for the 'genorisity and patriotism' exhibited by a person who according to you is fit for "summary punishment".

Mahatma do we really need your memorabilia. Mahatma if you were alive, not physically but in the heart and soul of your 'successors', who carry your lastname, would you accept them to be taken to your samadhi.

Hey Ram.....

3 comments:

tolly boy said...

Can't this great gandheyavada govt., gandhi tags govt. buy those memories? R v in a state to spend 9 crores? And why the other Billioniares are silent?

Anonymous said...

The government can buy them. The logic given by the minister for tourism Ambika Soni is that the auctioner will jack up the price once he comes to know that the Indian government is bidding. You are right, why Vijay Mallya alone, where have the Tata's and the Ambani's gone. Where have all those software 'giants' like Infosys and Wipro gone. Where are all the pharma and bio-tech giants gone.
Here is the answer. The Indian industrialists are very mean. Right now the only person who needs the government support to survive in the Airline industry is Vijay Mallya, other may need support but are not desparate. Vijay Mallya needs the customs, ED, Civil Aviation and other departments to bail him out of the crisis his airlines is going through. Now, if the government rejects his bail out appeal. The intellectual class that sips, Kingfisher beer, whisky and scotchs from the UB group will shout "what a s**t government is this, it is rejecting the appeal by a person who saved the pride of the country". And the government also precisely wants this, 'kickbacks', it is finding a route, ways and means to gather public support and subvert any criticism of its bail out plans framed for Vijay Mallya.

tolly boy said...

what a Diplomacy? great...