Monday, September 20, 2010

The rally that could have been avoided

On the way from Nagercoil someone in the bus lost his cell and i lost my peace/piece of mind. It would probably take ages for sanity to get restored in entirety. Never in the history of my existence have i ever cared to attend a political rally in the hindi heartland what to talk about my showing solidarity for the Marxists/Trinamool Congress in the State of West Bengal. And here i pitch for a rally for which all modes of transport were out of view and sight for over one hour before the ageing patriarch hit the road. You are literally ripped apart when you have to try three different modes of transport to reach close to the venue and literally gasping for breath when the centre of activity is full 2 kms away. Who forced you to mark your presence for a rally with which you can hardly identify by any stretch of imagination. The crowd began to disperse even before the well groomed leader could arrive (well the ageing patriarch arrived well past 6 and his extended family had arrived close to 6) and the gates had been shut on the large audience which had been waiting since morning. Probably they had a large to count on the leader and his followers. I, for one, won't step outside to get identified with a party with whom i have had no frail association what to talk about seeking its membership.
It was a decision made in haste and to be regretted for decades provided i get a call from the masses to address them in neat Tamil, which in all probability would happen once the new crop begins to curry favours with the audience which has begun to show respect to entities from the Hindi Hearland aspiring to hit the Tamilland. It was a rally meant for those who came in limos,trucks, trollies and trawlers and geared to sway the audience with the Tamil they could babble on for hrs. Not a word to get a sense of it was a senseless decision given my sensitivity to stay away from places that have no public transport and even if one that arrives after senseless wait you can't secure a seat as fisticuffs have already broken over the cell lost and the police station missed to lodge a report. It would have been better to get cuddled up in the room you occupy for the past few days than step out for a SENseless proposition where even the greying crowd won't make you stay a minute longer.

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