Maarta Kya Naa Kartaa! (You dont blink in the death moments)

Maarta Kya Naa Kartaa!

It is an age old Indian idiom that connotes that every possible option is a big one for one in their dying moments.

Favorably reflected it may drive one to bet on the smartest opportunity in hand. That is how simple it is I think! I mean if I have a heart attack, the most accessible doctor is God sent!

However, that may apply more to very normal, common people.

In real, there are people so entrenched in idealism and strange self belief that being of a higher order, they would expect the most accomplished doctor to attend, no matter how farther they may be. Some people indeed have a solemn relationship with beliefs and attitudes that draws them to a level beyond simpler livable life. It is a grain of passionate disposition towards life that has not seen fight for survival.

There may be another version of such a philosopher: Time and God are above every human effort. If I must live, the best will come and save me!

That may sound absurd. Very complacent as well. Complacency with poverty? Strange but it exists in real.

I wonder often if Indianness is closer to humanness.

You simply cannot find a reason or a rationale, yet you cannot deny its existence. An event of inhuman behavior would follow volatile arguments about why that happened and why that should not happen, missing out completely on resolving and moving ahead.

When the mind is so compelled into a swirl, the limbs cannot move to work.

An event is so meticulously and surgically diagnosed, and often shred to several bits and pieces of surreal imaginations, that the joy and the victory is in casting a scientific argument out of the most oblique piecees of unobserved information. The victor is the one who flags the wildest ever thought into a well constructed story of self belief. Most of that is based more on hearsay or perceptions than closer to the real experience or situation.

You can never get the whole of the elusive truth of Indianness unless you have lived it. And if you have lived it, feel blessed that you can see out of it. Chances of slipping deep into it is uncompromisingly high.

Elections in India offer a great The opportunity to see that wisdom come alive in its grandiose avatars.

Based on the time tested unrealistic promises, each politician contests the game of casting a spell its people and blinding them into a dream.

True, it is a dream that Indian chases – never the visible future. Everyone will shrug, "You think we cannot see through it?". Why then are you living with this filth?

Nehru knew the dreamer in Indian very well. So he carved a heart rending essay of words as his Independence day speech, and Indira knew how to make the dreamers run for their money, Vajpayee worked glorified the magic by feeding words that would make one ejaculate in an overnight dream sequence with Bollywood's hottest star.

Despite that, the world believes and genuinely acknowledges that Indian minds are possibly the sharpest and the best. 

Is the Big Indian Question: do I have a choice? real?

An affirmative never – there are visible options. Not dream like though!

The majority view is that the system needs someone who is strongly placed to lead and manage the rogue and the filth. How can an honest, simple, credible person have the apetite or the skills to manage the filth? Or, a belief that a race of the world's highest order shall not compromise with less than the extraordinary. Until then the other extreme is better than a compromise with the ordinary.

So, on a list of a hundred candidates in the voting list, the eyes would never move below the top three or four.

Come on, those other people who have stronger resumes, more humane backgroud, greater portfolio of public services are educated enough to realise what they seek and they are the people who are more likely to fear the disgrace of being failures.

No, they will be construed as the ones with a crave for power. You have nearly killed their want to do over 60 years.

If the able do not get a chance, how will you ever get an able leader?

That is not a question you ask when you are making a thriller for the audience to blow whistles.

“Maarta Kya Na Kaarta?”

When a billion vibrant, lively people decide that they are doomed and marooned, who can save or help? They may have a dream. But dreams do not fetch you a pie on the streets.

It is therefore amazing to see how the same lot who have over time proven that they mean no good for its people come out winners. As they know that India wants a dream to happen some day. And it is an easy game: bring out a face that is not yet exposed and create a hsyteria about their potential.

That is how farthest the rogue dream can run.

Modi is the new Indian dream!

So real that it does not know well its own pedigree and does not need to prove why he is abler.

Gujarat, the state that he has managed for over a decade does not on any parameter reflect having done the extraordinary that is claimed. Magical and extraordinary success is when you outscale the benchmarks. And the genuien ingenuine is in chagning the benchmark itself.

Against awfully poor management and governance, the smarter one would upset a few and an ingenious would be a game changer. Gujarat – look into its socio-economic data – has best moved a couple of ranks higher than how it was a decade ago.

That is not a game changer!

The stronger argument is that build a dream so high that when it falls it will stay in the clouds than fall on the ground.

The reality howver is that in the last minute when you do not have a choice, you must pull out something from the cupboard to showcase that you are good.

It is almost akin to the education system in India: you need not be the master in the subject. If you can score on some really nerve testing questions; and if you have mastered the trick of scoring well, you are the winner.

On the other side of Modi is the battle of arguments against a simpler common person with strong credentials and resume called Arvind Kejriwal (AK). Oh he is not honest and clean. He is power hungry. Or simpler, what has he done for us to believe he can deliver. And if he swore by the cause for people's liberty why would he move ahead of a successful movement to resolve the issue politically?

Hello, all I thought he did was to move a step further from begging. He asked for a just, and when he found that was not accessible, he moved in a position to enable it. I see an honest committment in that drive.

No, that is not the way India sees. India likes and celebrates even in the 21st century a Gandhi like figure, who leverages upon the urge to be a martyr for the cause than lead remedies.

Those who know me as one of the founding team members of the India Against Corruption movement may also read in this a campaign for AK and his team than an honest critical expression.

In all honesty, I know AK just as well as most people do not know him. Yet I will be willing to take a chance with someone who has braved their way and fought out so well in a short time must have some extraordinary skills. And if that person has done even a few things that reflects the will to work towards a newer standard. It is an achievable dream.

The swimmer in my son is seen when he dives into the pool.

In a similar vein, an outspoken Army chief, General V K Singh, will be put against a gruesome test of honest intentions before his genuine concerns and public exposure of internal failures of the Government in leading the armed resources are believed by people. Until then there will be a range of arguments, rumors and allegations taking place in the corridors inside and the galleries outside.

Months and years will pass by clinging on to those arguments – why and how, and yet bigger, what was the hidden agenda? Until another crime becomes greater and the past crimes make burroughs.

As Gods have looked after India over centuries, I pray they do even during times when God believes that men have come out of the age to manage on their own.

That is the only way I can wish for my country and its extraordinary people to contribute to the world's vision. If not, a billion deserving people would have turned into a liability for an evolving world!