monitor

An interesting situation has risen and it just makes me want to comment. Do you remember the time when we all were growing up (please have a Technicolor flashback aka... Hindi movie ishtyle)? WE were all studying in school and it was the desire, an ambition for all of us to become the class monitor and becoming one was the ultimate recognition that one has arrived. Being a class leader, deciding what where everyone has to sit and ensuring discipline and lording over everyone with authority, it gets ingrained in quite early. You know this could be a basis of a psychology debate for all- a revolutionary study would be conducted and I would go down the annals of history! Maybe Hitler, Napoleon, Gandhi were picked on as school kids and that led them to being leaders who swayed millions albeit in different paths.
Well getting back to the Punjab political scenario, it can be compared to the monitor being the respected CM who shepherds his flocks and one errant sheep MB is sent to sit on seat 90. The papers are full of this sensational news where discussions are being done, in context to the strategic shuffle. It is amazing that the fortunes of Punjab are being made over the strategic placement, never mind what is actually happening...How many of us actually read the PM’s speech and the honest apology of a man of integrity before making fun of his predicament?
We will continue to fight over petty things and miss the larger picture, as they do not affect us. Remember India is just a country we live, someone else is going to clean the act, meanwhile we will continue to wonder whether MB will sit at 90 number or the rebel MLA’s will sit or abstain from attending the session. The focus has shifted not on the common man but on resurrecting the ghost of the freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh who was un-mourned or revered upon till a few years ago.
I wonder if the ideals, revolutionary fervor will in fact rouse Punjab or only be worth the granite upon his name or the hologram sticker which adorns every SUV. The color yellow has suddenly become the ‘it ‘color and the mills are working overtime to manufacture the bales….
Ravneet Sangha