On the ethereal insensitivity of the rulers and on unparliamentariness of 'fucker'

(And don't get offended by the 'unparliamentary' title please. Read through, there is a case - if discussing on it is good enough for a state legislature, it is surely good enough for any blog.)


Law and Order is a state subject in India. So, if terrorism is to be handled as a 'criminal' and 'law and order' problem as a lot of unthinking people say, the buck stops with the Home Minister of the State. So, the man on whom the buck should stop at the first level is Mr.R.R. Patil, the (soon to be former) Home minister of Maharashtra. When asked too many times whether he is going to resign from his precious chair by a pretty but pesky journalist, Mr.Patil was so irritated that he had to say "Such things happen in big cities. You can't say it is a complete intelligence failure. No question of me resigning." What he actually meant was -
" Some guys came, killed people in this big city. You know, stuff happens. What the fuck should I do? "

For once, the Indian English News channels which on normal days make FOX News and MSNBC of US look like fucking documentary networks full of deep thinking scholars, did not have to manufacture anger from their audience.

The next day,someone belonging to the other end of the political spectrum, Mr.Muqhtar Abbas Naqvi, the Muslim face of the BJP and more noted for his carefully groomed beard than for his articulateness, sneered at women with lipstick and powder on their face staging demonstrations with lighted candles against politicians. What he actually meant was that the pompous westernised urban elite can kiss his fucking ass.( err, not that many votes, you know).

Then my communist Chief Minister, Comrade Achuthanandan, did not like the welcome he got at the martyr Major Sandeep's house. Then, giving a completely unnecessary interview and led by a stupid and dishonest  leading question, he thought he should 'get back' at the dead commando's father. "Were he not a martyr, even a dog, wouldn't have gone." and went on to comment on the lack of self-control of an old man who had just lost his only young son. What he meant was "I am Chief Minister. No one can be disrespectful to me. And what the hell, I din't kill him, did I? (also, I see a conspiracy here.)"

And we expected an introspective and wise polity looking at finding systemic and administrative solutions at a moment of pain and crisis.

...And fuck, it doesn't end. The leader of the opposition has got a name which nicely rhymes with the word for 'Fucker' in Malayalam. So, the new allegation is that during the Legislature session discussion regarding his 'unparliamentary' remarks about a martyr's family, the Chief Minister called the leader of  the opposition an unparliamentary 'Fucker Chandy'. The Chief Minister has denied it, it seems but anyways, both the words (Oomban and Oommen) are so close together that right from the start it seems this is gonna be a controversy which can never end.

Reiterating - and we expected an introspective and wise polity looking at finding systemic and administrative solutions at a moment of pain and crisis.....

But on this, I should admit that I sort of disagree. I say if fucker is not parliamentary, it should be.
Sort of suits the moment.