Sleepless for days by Puneet Rajhans

Sleepless for days

THere is an entire community that is quite agitated on the way things have panned out in environment and political sphere. Some of them haven't secured adequate sleep despit best efforts to not view 12am feed and 2am sleaze. As adequate sleep eludes most of us, the sleepless trail has been compounded by the events of the past two to three weeks. The sizeable blame cannot be fixed at the address of House by a man from the US (much heard and celebrated then and lost now in the Parliament din), the sleepless moments began to seep in the moment one Jairam Ramesh decided to head towards Sariska. Details are yet to emerge on how he reached Sariska (on foot by road or on a chopper)and the pow wow he had to secure safe sanctuary for tigers and political tigers. Precisely because the second lot are on the verge of second extinction as those who have been told to put in papers are much bigger than those whose resume has been verified and accepted for them to begin their political tryst.

Somewhere in that vicinity were the so-called scoops by time now and time then theatre against one Chavan who had been told to hand over the reigns to another Chavan. The muddle over another Pawar and another Chavan hadn't settled yet came this piece that Yeddyruppa was facing another protest; this time the party high command had raised the banner of revolt against him for his failure to check the muck that had gathered in his backyard. The time now and time then had two-and-a-half-years ago ran stories from Mangalore, Hubli, Bangalore and other places in Karnataka hailing the arrival of the first BJP government in the South. The stories effectively said that effective efforts had been made to clear the long lasting debris left by Gowda and co to make way for an effective stint by Yeddy. But this time round the way time now time then and other English medium of information/instructions handled the Yeddy Yell slide made the likes of those who had rooted for him slide further in a state of sleeplessness.

Series of revolts and schisms in the Yeddy government has been unprecedented and so has been unprecedented his inability to step down from the aircraft with which he reached delhi and his more-than-visible failure to step down from the chair he is holding. As for the other unprecedented event, the unprecedented outcome from Tiger Summit where unprecedented efforts were made to seek views from unprecedented-turned- not-so-pretty zanta (having lost the zing long time back) made others take the unprecedented step of skipping sleep and eating meals.

The Dominant Desai and Yogurt Yo Yo of SeeNoneNone EyeBeeNone Theatre tore into the claims of husband wife duo of Bihar that they and only they had the right to inflict pain and misery on the State given the swift massbase support that had come their way. Desai and Yo Yo told them that polls had the potential to throw them to new scale of extinction. Hearing all these vital inputs gave me one season of hope that i could catch my share of sleep howsoever unprecedented it may look as the fires had yet to be brougth down in the Yeddy Yell turf.