Its Delhi my friend, they live in made up stories.

Delhi is a lost land. When the unending array of serpentine black roads lead you to the citadel of power you will seldom realize those citadels don’t out last its fears. Delhi is surviving on a fake reality. It never allows you to face the reality. It survives in made up stories and fixed up deals. Everyone in this city from a street dweller to the people in the helm of affairs survive on some made up stories. They all know someone or something that can fix up things or interrupt your life; like a Panwala in Parliament street who will claim the access to fix up things at prime minister’s office. 

Interestingly when they convince you about this made up story and make you gullible; Delhi becomes big in front of you. Perhaps not only big but very big in front of a billion people, who do not have access to those six inch tv camera lenses and its studios, sixteen inch news paper sheets or those unending array of serpentine black roads that lead you to those citadels of power, where everything is a deal making and everything is meant for fixing. 

Delhi is a lost land…

It doesn’t realise that under those plastered concrete beauty, the cement is brittle and iron is resting. This nation of billion people does not live in those citadels or in those made up stories. Outside the four corners of Delhi, they find one hundred rupee a kilo dal, an average Indian’s two days wage, is appalling. But Delhi is not bothered. They live in made up stories. The ruling party believes the recent electoral victories; media management and squabbling opposition will discount such price rises.

They want us to believe the root cause of our entire problem lie with the 14% Muslim community, whose forefathers might have converted to Islam to escape caste oppression and who also may be the actual aboriginal descendant of this nation along with many other caste oppressed than the invaded Aryans Hindus. They would not tell us, how a 14% population will ever be able to destroy 86% majority’s belief and culture? And also why does the majority feel so fragmented and fragile that they are unsure of their belief and culture that survived thousands of years of socio-cultural engagement with many religion, culture, trade and nationalities!

Its Delhi my friend, they want to live in made up stories.

They will tell you, the thousand and odd industries that may or may not come up with their corporate masters, hold the magic wand for all your employment problems than those millions of small and medium scale industries, traders and agriculture farming that provides millions of jobs. They will convince you, how the rural employment guarantee scheme, named after the father of nation, that give a three months employment a year, a chance for rural poor to feed their hungry children is a national waste and how important is the corporate subsidies- sorry incentive- that keeps on creating few more billionaires every year (even as the industrial growth goes down every year or remain stagnant). 

They will remind us why does those Marxist and RSS intellectual verbose - forget the pride, that would not even bring a smile on our face- the history, that is the most important priority of a democratically elected government than the life of billion ordinary Indians whose first aspiration today is to take the next flight to US and Europe to escape this tyranny. 

They will point out, how important is it for us to curtail freedom in 21st century to be culturally identified by discriminating our fellow citizens on caste, creed, religion and even on food according to some text written in an ancient primitive era by a particular person or a particular belief with whom we should believe has the passport for our wellbeing in a socio cultural orthodoxy and fundamentalism ( by discriminating, segregating, rejecting and excluding !!)

Delhi is a lost land anyway…

But a billion people don’t live in those build up stories and fixed up deals. In this land of billion people, we don’t kill, reject and exclude people to solve our problem and we do not want our fellow countrymen to resort to violence either.
So let us firmly and democratically ask Delhi to listen to us.

Excuse me!
Leave us alone. We born and live in this country and that does not mean that we are available for your whims and fancies of made up stories and brokered deals. We want to live in a progressive 21st century and want to live happy and liberal. Leave us alone.