Desi Train

Ah… the joys a day cut into half… just the working part, I mean in case that line sent you picking up a hammer to knock me down… It’s a Christmas luncheon at the Grove in Hollywood, followed by drinks, movies etc. Sponsored by the office I work in. Unfortunately I won’t be going. And fortunately I can be left alone for a while as I zip back home and get ready to watch some mouth watering flicks playing at the theaters. Juno. No Country for Old Men. I am Legend. Hitman. and half a dozen others. I already see a hundred bucks floating away.

A few emails questioned there aren’t much of op-ed pieces on the current events or issues for a long time on DT. True. That’s because I don’t read much anymore - beyond the headlines. Newspapers have become the caffeine for depression. And I prefer not having that morning cup.

Take for example, the school shootout at Gurgaon/Delhi. How can two eight graders not feel any remorse for shooting and killing a class mate? What not many in the media have touched is the cold blooded way in which the two performed the grotesque act. One kid pumps a few bullets in the victim and coolly passes the gun to his partner in crime, who takes the gun and coldly pumps a couple more bullets into the victim.

If the new reporter on Aaj Tak is to be believed then the kids who are in custody, are behaving as if they have done some heroic act?

Heroic? I need to find my “Stay Sanity” pills here… because the mindset of the kids is more shocking that the act itself. How the fuck did we lose our views and judgements of the right and the wrong? When did we lose it? And what kind of a barrier has been erected in the educational system in India (and around the world) that children - eighth graders - cannot distinguish between the good and the bad.

It seems the victim was a bully. The kids couldn’t take it anymore and this led to them getting the gun and shooting the “bully” dead.

If this is how justice is served. We should start seeing in our lifetimes, justice being meted out on the streets pretty soon. The kids who will grow up will now be the judge, the jury and the hangmen. Is this how it’s gonna be?

The gas delivery guy is two days late. Shoot him up. The train reservation guy behind the counter is fucking your head up. Shoot him. The paanwallah has put an extra dash of choona in your pan. Shoot him. Your girlfriend can’t get you hard anymore. Shoot her.

What the fuck is wrong here?

Perhaps the government should also start the step by step program of closing down all police stations cause every kid out of school is going to be a citizen cop. The justice courts are of no use. The judges can get on retirement pension plans and the lawyers can start looking for other jobs, car salesmen is something I strongly suggest.

What’s wrong with the whole picture?

Of course sweeping aside all the idiotic bakwaas being poured out of the hundred news channels on tellytube, the simple thing is parenting and schooling is deteriorating.

Schools in India are now run as a business investment. Wasn’t it just engineering and medical colleges that were supposed to be that? Where the equipments were junk, the peon turned teachers and idiots residing over management chair glued to their chairs as if Fevicol or CrazyGlue was the college sponsorer.

When did schools turn into business ghettos? In my view it alienates the children from getting the right education, the right way and in the right manner.

I really would like to know what do eight graders discuss these days? Who’s fucking whom? What’s the a double barrel gun? Or who’s dad is having an affair with who’s mom? The best ways to kill someone without being caught?

Parenting is a word which is erasable and will soon be out of the dictionary. It was evident with the way kids these days are brought up. If a father is showing his gun to his wife and how to use it - right in front of the child… the father needs a permanent place in a mental asylum… that place he lives in is too dangerous for everyone around him. And what kind of a mother would allow the dad to show the naked gun and demonstrate to her the 101 of lock, load and shoot right in front of her kid?

Maybe it didn’t happen that way. Or maybe it did. But if a father is carrying an unlicensed gun in his house, then there is not a lot which needs to be told on how the children in that house may be turning out to be.

Heroic act? My fucking foot.

And then some of you complain where are my op-ed pieces. How can one withstand such news day in and day out. I get very emotionally effected and just can’t go beyond reading the headlines or the first two lines of the news articles these days.

And it’s Christmas time. The luncheon. Many movies to see. How the hell did one get so insensitive?

Perhaps that’s the life is supposed to be lived these days. To maintain one’s sanity. To preserve one’s unsecured happiness.

Oh fuck it.

On another note Panna ben’s cat-eyed daughter is delivering my evening dinners again and leaves me with a warm box of dinner… and a hardon…

Darn… two in one… ;)

Ya’ll be good, stay safe, have a great time Christmas shopping and above all - have a rockin weekend!

This entry was posted on Friday, December 14th, 2007 at 11:10 am and is filed under Friday Masala.
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