New Year

Vishu is back again. Oh by the way, it’s our New Year. No, we do not give much importance to such things. We are too wise for that.

Vishu indeed, a bloody remnant of depressive times when we had to wait a full year for one day of enjoyment! Man that is in the past. We are a prosperous country now. We don’t need such festivities to remind us that we exist.

By the way we do exist, though the first world (Hmm) does not recognize us for what we really are, an emerging superpower! Guy’s you’d better take us seriously. We are going to shake the world up, though we do not yet know how.

We still light up the crackers at Vishu. Perhaps it is the only thing we do on a Vishu now. Any one with or without licence could have made a few fire crackers till recently, all that is changed now. We do not give permission to all and sundry to make such dangerous things now. We had been taught a good lesson, there have been a few deaths by such explosions, we had to investigate those things and all has not been well. You know, the disclosures, they have hurt us real bad. Better have some legislation than have legislators who have a penchant of surfacing with guilty connections at every such investigation.

Yeah we are progressing, but at a price too. We just can not keep anything secret now what with the press and the inquisitive visual media. In the golden era of post independence there had been no bloody press to rattle us every now and then. We managed to declare an emergency too without any cause what so ever. The media was co operative then. Now they have no patriotism, they are after the available bucks in the market, the damn blood suckers.

You see we have problems; we can’t celebrate Vishu or such festivals because of these.

Well let us hope that we can find something to celebrate without being troubled by the point of that!