1. Are they rabblerousers?
We've been witnessing the coming together of two chief ministers - Mamta Banerjee and Arvind
Kejriwal - against the demonetisation drive of the government. They seem to be fighting(?) for the
cause of the poor. Their utterances at public meetings are venomous, so much so, that an impartial
observer is left wondering as to whether their sole aim is to incite their audiences to get into a
street fight against the government and create a law and order situation! Connected to it, Rahul
Gandhi, the other day, had talked to the people-standing-in-queue-in-front-of-a-bank, somewhere
in Bombay, talking about the 'pain' that he was going through at their plight and elicited no
response from the listeners.
Why don't these people 'fight' the government on the floor of the Parliament and bring the
government to its knees for the 'catastrophic' decision? Judging from the all round favourable
reactions from the international media, institutions and financial/economic experts, it's evident
that they do not have any basis to stake their claims of the impending apocalypse!
If that be so, are they rabblerousers? What's, indeed, frightening is that they've warned the
Prime Minister and his team of dire consequences if the order regarding demonetisation is not
withdrawn in the next three days!
2. Lekha's friend drops by.
Lekha's classmate from school, Lekshmy, her husband, Aniyan, their daughter, Gayatri and the
younger son, Kannan had fetched up at about 3, in the afternoon. They'd come to hand over the
formal invite for Gayatri's wedding, spread over three days from 12 Dec. Their earlier visit was in
the evening of 19 Aug when the two of them were accompanied by their eldest son, Gopu when
Mom was amid us. She liked the youngster and had asked them his details - she told me later that
Gopu and my niece, Ammu, would make a nice couple!
Lekshmy and Anian recounted every piece of conversation that they'd that day with Mom and
appeared to feel her absence!
How I wished that Amma was there, this afternoon, with us. Or was she there amid us, all the,
time, laughing at our follies?
3. On the Sabarimala trail....
I'm on the Sabarimala 'trail' since yesterday which means that abstinence is the watchword. It shall
be followed till the 14th of Jan, the end of the season. But no, I wouldn't be visiting the shrine!
Tailpiece.
Tomorrow, the chief minister and his ministers are gonna squat in front of the RBI office at Thiruvananthapuram, during working hours, because the union government has not permitted the state's co-operative banks to collect the demonetised currency notes in their transactions and so, their
operations have come to a standstill. Rumours are that most of the political leaders of the state have
their wealth deposited in one or the other of this bank network!
But what's being conveniently kept quiet by everyone concerned, is that the Co-operative banks do not follow the RBI guidelines in their operations! The union government's decision is consequent to that aspect but, as usual, it's being made out to be a political game instead!
We've been witnessing the coming together of two chief ministers - Mamta Banerjee and Arvind
Kejriwal - against the demonetisation drive of the government. They seem to be fighting(?) for the
cause of the poor. Their utterances at public meetings are venomous, so much so, that an impartial
observer is left wondering as to whether their sole aim is to incite their audiences to get into a
street fight against the government and create a law and order situation! Connected to it, Rahul
Gandhi, the other day, had talked to the people-standing-in-queue-in-front-of-a-bank, somewhere
in Bombay, talking about the 'pain' that he was going through at their plight and elicited no
response from the listeners.
Why don't these people 'fight' the government on the floor of the Parliament and bring the
government to its knees for the 'catastrophic' decision? Judging from the all round favourable
reactions from the international media, institutions and financial/economic experts, it's evident
that they do not have any basis to stake their claims of the impending apocalypse!
If that be so, are they rabblerousers? What's, indeed, frightening is that they've warned the
Prime Minister and his team of dire consequences if the order regarding demonetisation is not
withdrawn in the next three days!
2. Lekha's friend drops by.
Lekha's classmate from school, Lekshmy, her husband, Aniyan, their daughter, Gayatri and the
younger son, Kannan had fetched up at about 3, in the afternoon. They'd come to hand over the
formal invite for Gayatri's wedding, spread over three days from 12 Dec. Their earlier visit was in
the evening of 19 Aug when the two of them were accompanied by their eldest son, Gopu when
Mom was amid us. She liked the youngster and had asked them his details - she told me later that
Gopu and my niece, Ammu, would make a nice couple!
Lekshmy and Anian recounted every piece of conversation that they'd that day with Mom and
appeared to feel her absence!
How I wished that Amma was there, this afternoon, with us. Or was she there amid us, all the,
time, laughing at our follies?
3. On the Sabarimala trail....
I'm on the Sabarimala 'trail' since yesterday which means that abstinence is the watchword. It shall
be followed till the 14th of Jan, the end of the season. But no, I wouldn't be visiting the shrine!
Tailpiece.
Tomorrow, the chief minister and his ministers are gonna squat in front of the RBI office at Thiruvananthapuram, during working hours, because the union government has not permitted the state's co-operative banks to collect the demonetised currency notes in their transactions and so, their
operations have come to a standstill. Rumours are that most of the political leaders of the state have
their wealth deposited in one or the other of this bank network!
But what's being conveniently kept quiet by everyone concerned, is that the Co-operative banks do not follow the RBI guidelines in their operations! The union government's decision is consequent to that aspect but, as usual, it's being made out to be a political game instead!
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