Get MY Message, Dude?

Jug Suraiya has written a very thoughtful piece today on something we have also discussed at length in this earlier post – the Naxalite-Maoist armed rebellion. His title, “Leftists and Left-Outs,” says it all: Leftists like the Karats, Yechuri, the entire Politburo – they are very much part and parcel of The Total Chacha State. Karat insists that “Maoists are not leftists.” Certainly not, quips Suraiya – they are “left-outs.”

Ha ha.

Heck, so are all the rest of us. Even right here in New Delhi, a brand new city, where THEY live in British-built bungalows with acres of verdant State-maintained lawns, laid out with sprawling roads in a “hub-and-spoke” design, wide footpaths, leafy avenues, clean air, birds and birdsong, and what have you. And, of course, great “VVIP Security” too, to keep them safe.

The rest of New Delhi has been “left out” of such a well-designed urban layout. Although there are millions of acres of totally unowned land all around New Delhi, our homes are tiny, our roads are a mess. If some foolish people take comfort in the market values of their properties, they also must look around their properties to the city they live in, and realize that they own hideously expensive properties in a truly hideous town.

Suraiya’s article, which I recommend highly, talks about how the Central State Police uses its guns to dispossess forest-dwellers so that State-licensees can mine on land they do not own. Singur, Nandigram, same old story. No Respect For Property. Unlaw.

The Maoists shot dead 4 of these cops. A spokesman of the Central State Police Ministry is quoted as saying:

“"What is the motive behind the attack...? What is the message that the...(Maoists) intend to convey?"

Suraiya uses the term “perception” while employing this quote. Indeed, what does this bozo PERCEIVE? Just the other day a police inspector was beheaded. Just the other day they killed 17 cops in one go. Just yesterday, they hijacked the Rajdhani Express. And the fucking stupid bozo from Laputa-On-High still doesn’t get the “message.” He sure has his ear to the ground.

The King of Laputa, of course, has all his senses completely devoted to economic (mis)management. He wants to occupy the "commanding heights of The Economy." Quite naturally, here too the news is not good – inflation, talk of an “exit strategy,” the problem of the huge deficit – all of which should tell the “Sheeple” that we are quite literally being “fleeced” for this great big party THEY are having on the floating island of Laputa, a party from which all of us, like the Maoists and the Naxalites, have been “left out.”

Jug quotes Arundhati Roy too – but what I took away from his piece is this thought:

Who are the State Police?

I have just returned from a long drive around south Delhi, and I think all of us here know that the State Police have never given traffic safety any thought – ever. This is true throughout India. 1,30,000 people die annually on our roads, or over 350 a day.

What “work” do the State Police in New Delhi do, other than VVIP Security for all the Laputans?

If we ask ordinary people on the streets of this Capital City, the poor, the marginalized, the really and truly “left out” people of New Delhi, they detest the State Police even more strongly than the Maoists do, I daresay.

Anyway, I was stuck on the Bus Rapid Transit Corridor (BRT) for quite a while. The central lanes, reserved for buses, were empty. While we the “left outs” were jam-packed on the left lane, struggling to get ahead.

Struggling to get ahead.

It was then that I saw a lone white Ambassador car, the 1954-vintage English car that is the Flagship of the Chacha State, their "Trabbie," with a red light on its nose, and myriad long radio antennae sticking out of its ample behind, so that its occupant can instantly receive all messages from without, driving grandly down the vacant bus lane, breaking rules which the Sheeple are following, precisely as in the case of Property.

I stuck my right hand out of the window and held it aloft, middle finger extended.

Simple message.

From "a simple, separate person.”

Hope the blind, deaf and dumb on Laputa get this at least.