The co-travellers...

Dearest Datta,
There has always been a hint of the writer in you - Ofcourse leaving out the last point, the others were merely catalyzed through some form of extreme inebriation of the rational mind (I am hoping it's just the liquor)
I found the research on Menelaus compelling. I also tried to draw some analogy, not metaphorically, just logically out of Menelaus and Ju**id.I don't know, but somehow still, to him the heterosexual tag does not really fit the bill. I can reasonably argue today, on that very front, how and why J**n frequented his place, unsuspecting. Anyway, my guess is that you out of all people are savouring only the mascara and not the cologne.
Now, from where we set out, was a question - Directly implying whether the brain (aka material world) must abdicate and let the souls/morals/principles have a chance?
This is what happened:
A friend told me that he was too lazy to go and vote.
Baneful to the country, isn't it? Considering the already brittle fabric of democracy here, can we afford such blitheness? To us, its trifling, because we happen to be in the (I am not very sure of the Statistics) 24-25% of the population in terms of affluence/eruditeness, whatever you may want to call it, but to the rest of the75% of India, it makes a lot of difference.
Preponderant - yes in terms of the numbers and just that, but really, tell me how much is the Government really doing to really make these people "count"?
The 80/20 principle is ubiquitous, even in the context of elections in India.
A ramified society, financially, socially, intellectually. If the English used us against us, what do you think these elaborate poll mandates are all about? After all, 80 year old politicians have learnt from the English and are still carrying on the legacy, ignominiously.
And then, when on a train, I tell my co-passengers ( A commander in the Indian navy, A sub-inspector serving the last four years of his service with the UP Police and a young Civil Engineer) that maybe Mr. Karat is not wrong afterall, maybe there is a need for us to be moderately communist, they just flip out!!Can you tell me, why would three well-read, mature people just discount the mere idea of mild socialism?
1) Equality
2) Freedom
3) Against Exploitation
4) Religion
5) Cultural
6) Educational
7) Constitutional remedies
I am sure we all remember these; these are the Rights we have.
How about the duties? One of the duties is "To promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood amongst all the people of India transcending religious, linguistic and regional or sectional diversities; to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women."Promote brotherhood? Hah! What a bloody joke? We are used to servants, helpers, waiters, rickshaw pullers and the likes, and this is India, where these people do not get even an iota of respect that they deserve only for the sheer hard work they put in.
We cannot let go of our premonitions about losing out to these people who are gradually rising. The same goes for the entire Global population which might not like India rising the way it is.
And what are we doing about it?? Contributing in ANY way?? NO
Now tell me, do you see where I am heading with this? Convoluted is it?
Actually, it is all inter-related. If I were to calculate the correlation factor between our own indifference and the putrid condition of the country, it sure would cross 0.95.
We aren’t able to let go of what we have. We sure are ambitious but at the same time we just cannot relinquish the power.
We as politicians, as the aam aadmi, as everyone we know, just cannot let go.
So, let me ask again, is there anything, at all, that you would kill for?Or die?