Fantasy - a satire on myself and my fellow Indians

It was one of those days which started almost like any other day; having morning coffee, going to work and then going through latest news. News in India is much scarier than the William Friedkin’s all-time scary movie, Exorcist and much grosser than James Wan’s SAW. But still it always is refreshing in ways to know how some government, is ruining some state, why people are doing riots, how some people are doing nothing for the injustice done to them. Its always refreshing, can never be boring.

For the past some days before that day I had been feeling restless, impatient not because of what’s happening around me at my work but because of what is happening around me in my country or to my country. There had been an incessant conflict between my heart and my mind, my conscience and my conception and also a dilemma to take whose side as both sound equally practical and impractical. But that day witnessed the pinnacle of all these emotions, which forced me to choose a side, and I did. I chose my heart’s way to be Indian and do something like a responsible Indian-Bring Change.

What to do and how to do was a question now. Before that with whom it can be done was a bigger question. Most of the middle-aged Indians are pre-occupied by some prejudices, corrupted depending on their capabilities and rarely selfless. So I decided to go with Youth of India who are on the edge of becoming typical Indians like their middle-aged predecessors. Once I got hold of few youngsters after thorough campus interviews whose main aim was to bring a change better to India, I wanted some elderly person to govern all of us and to make sure we are on right path. So we visited many of Homes for the aged and found one elderly person whose knowledge was what we desired.

Then we decided that to bring betterment in India it should be done through politics. So we started a political party namely “Kaaran(Reason)”. We had a reason to exist and never wanted to move away from that and so we named our party “Kaaran” just to keep reminding ourselves about our reason.

Once the news was out, the response was huge. Got many letters, mails from all over India, media was praising our party but no new members were ready to join. But still we had a “Kaaran” to boost our spirits. We were elected from all constituencies from where we were nominated. Then we had lot of new members showing in. We filtered among them and chose only the apt ones. We did our best in our first term and by the end of first term we had become a complete party, which can govern an entire state. As Expected in our next elections we won with huge majority to govern our state. Yes we did not want to rule we wanted to govern, we wanted to make sure everything happening is heading only towards betterment. Now our party had members from many sects and communities but none were revealed outside. We went to backward and predominant caste communities and everywhere we said “we might or might not have people from your community but we have people of your country who want our country to be best”.

People of India are not that irrational. Sooner our party reached national level. So when parliamentary elections came we again won with huge majority and now we are the leaders of the nation. We tried our best to eradicate corruption, improve literacy rate(of course without conversions), bring more people above poverty line and in turn making better India which was our dream, wish and “Kaaran”.

“orey bandoda nidra leyya raa, entha sepupadukuntaavu, nee laaga mitta madhyahnam daaka andharu paduko batte desam itta edchindhi, lechi moham kadukkoni vachi bhojanam thinu, tharuvatha malli padukovachu.”

“You idiot wake up now. How long will you sleep? It’s just because of people like you sleeping till afternoon India is like this. Wake up, eat and then you can happily sleep again”

And then I woke up.