A Weighty Medicine To Treat You- With Love From Baba

Slight breeze on a Saturday evening seemed like it was going to be a good day when I could finally relax and catch up on the latest that’s been happening around the world. After holding down the abused button of the remote control I ended up on the IBN7 news channel. What I saw there was enough to stir the sleeping temper inside me.

A young man somewhere in his late 20’s christened as the great “sadhu baba” had set up his tent somewhere in the outskirts of Nagpur where people in large numbers had gathered with the hope that he would miraculously take away their trouble and physical ailments. Don’t mistake him to treat the innocent or rather naïve people with any medications. Rather he has an unusual way of treating them including the tiny tots. Let me narrate how he was treating one of them. He stood up with all his weight (don’t ask me how much he weighs dude…he wasn’t standing on me!) on this little infant..yes you read it right…this little baby whose not more than a few months old! Bloody fucked up asshole! ( This is my blog and I have all the right to abuse!)

The poor baby could do nothing but only cry with all his might. It took every ounce of my self control to stop myself from getting into the T.V. and killing this Sadhu with my bare hands …and the realization that I can’t possibly enter into the T.V. or reach Nagpur in a nano seconds! The Baba took no mercy on the helpless baby, neither did the child’s parents nor the crowd standing nearby (they were busy clapping for the brave act that this holy soul ..(my ass)… was performing. The smiling godsend then, as if fully inspired by the crowd chanting his name, shifted his entire weight onto the baby’s knee…ouch!!!!! )

This is one of the numberless incidents that I have witnessed on news this past week. Such incidents are enough to send the rage of the viewer’s rocket high…those who are glued to the television.

This one particular journalist who lives near my house, uhum I mean one of those typical Punjabi aunties who can hardly accommodate herself on one chair and has no other work but gossip the entire day, couldn’t control but pass me on this information that all those who have seen the news are enraged and how most of her friends have been calling a news channel to raise their concern.

I find this extremely surprising. By ‘this’ I mean people calling up some random news channel to voice their so called opinion on such sensitive issues. I’m not referring to the issues raised by India Tv at the late night show with ‘does your wife hate sex’ or ‘should you really use Viagra’ kind of topics. I’m pointing towards topics which are necessary and require an immediate stringent action before they become a permanent stigma for the Indian society.

People can call up some media channel and put across their opinion against such happenings but these are the same people who rely on the ashirwad of the crooks who by wearing a saffron colored long gown and 4-5 bead chains around their neck and same number around their hands can easily make people believe that they have got magical powers.

Why is it that India though a free country fast moving towards becoming a developed nation still has numberless people who are still caught up in the web of superstition? Mind you its not just the illiterate class but also the highly educated filthy rich people who are seen traveling several kilometers just to get a darshan of their selected baba and take his blessings for every new venture that they take up or to seek his blessings so as to help their son get a divorce from his wife so that they can get a bahu who will cook better food than the present one or to get rid of that annoying back pain…reason could be any!

What is the government doing about this rising level of superstition among the people of our country? Not that I have any hopes from them but are they forever going to sit on their asses till the entire nation has a baba’s hand on their head? Why not make these baba’s the president and the prime minister of the country? People seem to have more faith in them than the politicians for sure!

Tried talking to my brother about this…here is the conversation that followed…

I, sitting on the bed about to pounce on the T.V. set shouted “what is wrong with these people? What about the child’s parents? They think that there is some bhoot ka saya on this little kid just because the baby cries the entire day?!” How about changing his nappy!

Then a dialogue comes from my half insane brother “I think you are crazy. Why are you getting so hyper? This is nothing new. It’s been happening since age’s immemorial and will continue. Can you pass me your half eaten snicker?” Crazy pig…can only think of eating all the time…why my chocolate!!!(After a small session of kicks that followed I managed to save my chocolate! Victory has never been so sweet!)

Anyways so what do we do? Sit on our asses and do nothing because it’s been happening since ages. This will continue if we don’t do something now. But what? Make the government sit up and take notice…well if they had this much attention span they would have seen these things happening as they happen right under their noses. The fact is that these crooks actually approach the politicians for taking permission to put up tents and hold their gyan sabha and offer a handsome amount in return.

As they say, at times politicians and nappies both have to be changed…and for the same reason.

Me The Insane One

Finally after multitude days of thinking,rethinking n then re-rethinking...i have managed to start a blog. Phew! Is it always this tough to start something new? Well seems like in my case it is! Love being a typical Libran mostly but it has got big time disadvantages along with it!...Damn ...just the word 'disadvantages' reminded me of 'VoIP'...my office lover! Too much work gets on my head at times...hope my boss reads this particular line..appraisal in a few months time! ;)

Well what took me so long to start blogging had partially to do with the fact that my indecisiveness got the better out of me...couldn't finalize a name for the blog! ...yuck...sounds vela!..Midnight scribble seemed like a perfecto decision since I happen to be a nocturnal bird...8 pm to 5 am is the time when I function the best. Hence the name. If one of my soul mates( read a totally insane person with ample time at hand to waste) happens to read the time this post was published he/she will realize that I'm actually writing in the evening...well well I might just be turning a lil sane after all these years of continuous pestering from people back home and friends.

Ops!Opened my mouth..or rather stroked the keys too soon!I just glanced back at what I have written till now...seems like I'm not so sane!....Anyways who decides whose sane and whose not? Reminds me of this novel I read back at the time of graduation( one of d few i managed to read...rest...hail to my savior Ramji Lal!)...Mrs. Dalloway was d name. Raised quiet a few questions and some got me really thinking...it doesn't take much to make me start thinking by the way...So anyways, back to the question..whose the ultimate deciding factor? Dalloway examined the same question.

The damn society who hides their dirt under their pillows in the morning before they decide to turn into the moral police? Or is it the new age ultra modern father who has no qualms in raping his own daughter? Or is it shiv sainks who think that by creating a havoc on the valentines day, by destroying shops decorated with heart shaped balloons and beating the f**k out of the young couples sitting cosily in a corner of some coffee shop or a garden( our very own buddha garden for one!hehehe) would help somehow miraculously save the 'Hindu Culture' from being lost among the western ethics?

Maybe the people who are tagged as insane have their own world wherein the so-called sane ones are looked upon as insane. Anyone who does something against the nomenclature are termed as psychopath or crazy. Why? Just because they don't agree with the rest of the world? Just because their thought process works differently?

Well if this is the case then I'm proud to be insane! Hail to the mighty insane's around the world!

p.s-The world would be a much better place if we could all just live and let others live happily. Why judge? Follow your heart, your dreams, your aspirations...there is so much to learn...so much more to earn( lolz).
....i know most of you by now are sure that I'm the great one...insane i mean!