November 9 is a day that will forever live in infamy — in my head at least — for the sheer levels of stupidity and moronic behaviour scaled by people of my city. And this is just when I thought people couldn’t get any stupider — case in point, being people refusing to acknowledge the Nation’s National Song, as it impinged on their Islamic beliefs.
Never mind, today’s idiocy scaled even the mark set by those soaring levels of dumbness. A to-be-sworn-in member of the legislative assembly for Maharashtra wanted to take his oath in Hindi. It just so happens to be the National Language after all. Anyway, so as he’s about to do it, he’s attacked by these animals from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) — a party of a few intellectuals and mostly thugs. They proceed to slap him for not taking the oath in Marathi, the state language and hit him with slippers, grab his microphone etc. The usual shit goons and thugs indulge in.
The latest is that four of these animals have been suspended for four years... Four years of their five-year term. If you thought for a second that they’d be upset, think again. They’ve received nothing but adulation from their party’s equally obnoxious and thuggish leader. Spare a thought for the voters from the constituencies of those four suspended members of the legislative assembly. What the hell did they vote for? For a candidate who’d be suspended for 80 per cent of the term?
The suspended people will meanwhile, live it up at home and get paid for doing nothing. Hopefully, people learn their lesson and never vote for such foul creatures again.
If on the other hand, you think I’m showing any sort of solidarity with the guy who took his oath in Hindi, you are mistaken. Far from being roundly regarded as a fairly corrupt fellow, I find it
incredibly stupid that he would announce days in advance that he would not take his oath in the state’s language, but the National Language. Is it not folly to publicly come up with something like this, when one knows what sort of animals the MNS are and the currency they deal in. See adjoining picture for details of their currency and how lavishly they spend it.
incredibly stupid that he would announce days in advance that he would not take his oath in the state’s language, but the National Language. Is it not folly to publicly come up with something like this, when one knows what sort of animals the MNS are and the currency they deal in. See adjoining picture for details of their currency and how lavishly they spend it.Further, it was reported that at a city church, a crucifix was — believe it or not — crying! And working as I believed I did at a progressive publication that pushes the envelope, I would’ve imagined that running the photographs with a slightly skeptical caption would have been apt. But no. We don’t want to look like mocking their faith. We don’t want to call a shovel a shovel, a spade a spade and an obvious act of condensation as that. We’d rather term it a miracle and in the process, allow people to continue buying into superstition and standing in line with idol worship.
Methinks the two instances of stupidity in the day may not have been so far removed from each other...
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