Saturday, October 10, 2009

My brilliance.. in virulence..!

 Statutory Warning # 1: Reading this post may irritate some dunderheads. Who might later storm my house and beat me up..! I give two hoots..!! :D  

 

Statutory Warning # 2 : Please, don’t view my posts as Anti-Marathi, they are Pro- India.

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What if our Chota Cub passes out of Bombay Scottish, sails through college, does exceedingly well at the incumbent CAT and actually gets a call from one of the IIMs?

And what if it turned out to be IIM - Lucknow?

 

Any ordinary Marathi Manoos would have been in a dilemma. But not Cub Sir.

He roars into the mike, “My Son conquered IIM Lucknow, but he would not study there. He won’t step into the state that has been Maharashtra’s undoing..!”

A thunderous applause follows.

 

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And all of a sudden, I pop out of nowhere and grab the mike from Cub Sir’s hands. (It’s MY blog, you see!)

 

I roar into the mike now.

 

“All hail the upholder of Maratha Pride! It is He who has shown us The Way. Like scattered sheep we were wandering aimlessly but now, we’ve found our Shepherd. Like Moses parted the Sea with his staff to make way for the Christians, Cub Sir would part the Indians to make way for the Marathis!

      My fellow Maharashtrians, let us all, at this solemn moment, pledge to not waver like Cub Sir. Let His wisdom give us the strength to emulate him.

             Let us all pledge to never desert Maharashtra. Even if our kids make it to the IITs and the IIMs, let them serve Maharashtra in Maharashtra, for we were fortunate enough to be born here. So, let our children live, rot and die here without ever stepping out of Maharashtra for they were equally fortunate to be born here. Let us kill them all by confining their bright, young minds within the walls of a city and the confines of a language. Let’s poison their thoughts while our leaders indulge themselves in a disgusting orgy of renaming schools and erecting token memorials! Let us rest on our laurels, slip into a trance and croak our throats out over our superiority over the rest of ‘them’! Croak – yes.. we’ll croak because we’re no better than the proverbial frog in the well..!”

 

I am finished. I return the mike to Cub Sir.

There is pin drop silence. One man gets up and yells an obscenity at me. Others follow suit.. soon they start throwing slippers at me.

 

Alas! Nobody likes to listen to the truth..

11 Grumblings:

ketki said...

different people...
different opinions...

Mr. M said...

Tu toh Pitega be~*

Sikander Fayyaz Khan said...

Moses parted the sea for the Jews. Christians came hundreds of years later :p

Do not confuse the facts while you are at it :D

Sikander Fayyaz Khan said...

Or myths... :s

Anchal said...

great imagination & gorgeous naration

nemesis said...

rightly said ,Uncle i support U.

Siddhesh said...

Wow...thought provoking indeed...i started reading your post with that marathi manoos still ruling my mind, but at the end, he had to sit back and think for a while. Very true and straight. By the ways it was Jews who were led by Moses.
Anyways once again you have proved that there are thinkers around us. Keep blogging.

Ayyappan said...

@Ketki
True..

@DP
I said already, I care two hoots..! :D

@Siku
Yaar, the moment I knew I did something wrong with my facts..!! (Or myths!) :D :P

Ayyappan said...

@Anchal
Thanks..!! I just hope the narration has it's effect..!!

@Neha
Thanks, AuntyJee..!!

@Siddhesh
Look at what we've done to ourselves and our city today..!! We all are hated by the rest of India.. this is all because of issues that have been cooked up! On one hand we talk about globalization and how the world has become a small village, and we feed fascism and even try to justify it..!! :(


I am not Anti Marathi, just an incurable idealist..optimist!! :)

Meera's World said...

nice post.

Meera's World said...

sorry,i posted a comment with my son's blog name:)arjun's blog.he created one in my blog and messed everything and then created another of his own and i didnt know how to change the changes he made in my blog!!u dont have to publish this post,just for your info:)