Tumhari Aukat ?

Tumhari Aukat? 

Circa late 1950’s early 60’s : A flashback to the old black and white movies when a farmer toils his land in tattered shirt and a loin cloth bare feet in his fields , his feet encrusted with mud and sweat pouring down his back . He returns home to his family and his thatched hut where he eats a meal of stale roti and a watery dal . The expression on his face is of dismay , depression , sadness and gloom with a melancholy that reflects . 

Circa 2020- we are in the midst of a severe pandemic that exists on the this side of the barricade , everything is available on the fingertips and we are colonising Mars. Farmers are sitting on the roads , protesting peacefully in their affluent tractors , sleeping out in the open at night what temperatures dropping to 3 degrees temperature . The question that worries the kid press is how are they eating pizza ? How dare a farmer have the audacity to eat food such as pizza or a sandwich that are the domain of the educated , well read, fluent in English . Farmers aren’t supposed to eat pizza , they aren’t well read or educated . They are supposed to be uncouth , loud , brash and just limited to their dal roti or dal chawal.

I mean . Just imagine the sheer cheek , and effrontery that he dare to eat pizza . The impertinence of him to eat a pizza clad in his kurta pajama with his signature turban ? How dare he eat something that was on my menu ?

The protest of the farmer for the repealing of the laws is something that concerns all of us , every section of the society and I will keep on raising my voice and spreading awareness . A farmer is the backbone of the country . You gotta eat , gotta poop and then only you could go about to do or business . 

An ignorant lady emerged that if milk supplies wee stopped she would take packet wala doodh. Meir pyaari memsahib , you cant download , order via Big Basket or get Mother Dairy doodh. It’s a democracy where we have coexisted in a secular framework embracing different religions and showing the way to the world.

A farmer is essential to our survival three ties a day , he is the one who toiled in the blistering sun , incessant rain , freezing temperatures  all year around without a holiday . The next time you wish to make these idiotic half baked statements just to poke , you should realise we also came to the 21st century and got an education just like you! Find something concrete to debate regarding what is good for the farmer. 

Ps: the pizza base is made from wheat , the sauce from tomatoes , and every vegetable is grown in a field , and the seasoning like oregano is a herb , and the mozzarella cheese is from buffalos milk.#justsaying 

He who must not be named

 Dear Darling Indian Janta,

This is an open letter to you in regards to the main subject these days , no not covid or the vaccine for that we have crossed the barrier via clapping hands , lighting Diya’s drinking enough kadhas to drown all . I think distinctly we are all a shade of yellow thanks to the haldi we have had . But this is not even about the two obnoxious , nauseating actors who have tried to speak about the  subject , who have made fun of us and of our culture by speaking funny Punjabi .

I don’t even wish to talk about these two bits who are deluded and so misinformed and are power hungry . 

This is about the subject that should not be named . You know we cant talk about it . Lord Voldemort is a sobriquet for Tom Marvelo Riddle , a fictional  character in the Harry Potter series and was known as He who must not be named . There we were talking about him being the worst villain aka the evil wizard who was taking the world to the dark side . 

Here , its about what there is an unrest about . You know why those lakhs of farmers are sitting on the border who wish to fight for their livelihood. I feel , you all have forgotten that it cannot be downloaded or bought  in a can or bought from Amazon . Deliveries that are made to your doorstep , are grown in a field .

You know the land that is owned by marginal farmers , who till it , grow it and harvest it ; its an expensive process , then only the grains and the food that you consume is grown . 

I wished covid had taught you that we need good food to build and boost our immunity , but right now a section of the public and society is thinking its taboo and its who must not be named  .

Meri, pyaari janta , its not downloaded via google , its not available in a sack but grown . And people who grow it are called farmers . They don’t want the laws simple as that ! Why would you enforce the laws without consulting the specific party ? Even when we go to the hospital , we are asked to sign a form that tells us that we are agreeing to the operation and it can go either way . A NOC its called , so why not with the farmers ?

It so happens that the farmers have been misused all this time because they were manipulated, used for votes ( happens everywhere ) and are never consulted .If we can eat their food three times a day and sometimes we eat 5/6 times a day thanks to the new fangled diet why cant we give them subsidy and a coverage?

When would you eat food that was downloaded and available in binary numbers of 0 and 1 . Even for pooping , you need food and that is grown in a a live , to be touched and felt field and not on FarmVille.

Why as citizens of the country who have given the world Green Revolution , milk Revolution and Jai Kisan slogans now shying away from helping them?

Yes ,we are distinguished by our wrinkles and callouses on our hands and the flowing beards but the solidarity shown at the protest by every farmer cannot be divided into Sikh , Hindu or Muslim .

The hand that feeds the nation need not be named but it needs to be recognised . Do not get duped into labelling us as terrorists , or dividing us you different religions. 

Yes it was started in Punjab , because we were being affected but it the most , and we all got together to fight against it in a peaceful way and it’s become the largest protest ! From letting it be fiction start naming the problem , its all about the food , which we need three times a day and for that you. Need to thank a farmer . 

Aapki dost ,

Ravneet Sangha .

Ps :  The ones who must not be named are dimwit and nauseating and for reference for coming generations are allied Kangana Ranaut and Payal Rohatgi . 

Kangana da Tangana

 We don’t live in a bubble , nor do we think that we know and have everything or that the farm laws are affecting only us . Kangana da tangana carried on and Diljit really owns everyone’s hearts and he was true to his name by boldly answering back at an actor who loves to meddle at everything happening everywhere . She thinks India is hers only .

The problem is not that Kangana confused Mohinder Kaur with Shaheen Bagh Dadiji. The problem is that she thinks that these strong  women who have stood up for their rights and have been a beacon of the fight , can be hired for Rs 100 a day . This fixing of price on a woman’s integrity is deeply problematic and sexist .

Kangana has been answered back by a set of tweets and has the entire world entertained . His account went up and we all ended up unfollowing her . She has lost her credibility and all that she had gained . Far too many times she has jumped into the fire and remained unscathed but this time it was just taking a panga with the Jats who took grave offence on their old grandmother or the women being called out . Do you not have any morals or manners ? Or as they say do you value others with the same value you have of yours ie Rs 100.

This is a rant and rave and yes I am adding my two bits to it but she really pissed me off and hence this . 

The point is we all have to move on and now go back to refocus on the agitation and the protest at hand . For the first time , citizens who were moving to the capital were targeted with cold water when the temperatures in North India are dropping and these were all old men with flowing beards who all are like our grandfathers .

Next week we are going to have winter rain , yes there are enough provisions , langar , food , medicines and everything has been thought and provided of but what about the exposure to the cold . I fear for their healths . It is no mean feat to be outside and sleep there ... 

When we as farmers don’t want the law why is it being enforced ? We are not anti national , do not label us as terrorists and don’t spark off any confusion in the minds of the public by misinformation. Why do you forget that we are a part of your country and we chose you as the representative ? Vajpayeeji said ‘ Sarkar aye girl Jayanti per dash rehna chaie’ . One loves the country and its spirit and its ethos . 

 We witnessed a slugfest between a 12th fail who knows nothing and professes to know everything and is fanning her political ambitions on a subject that she has no knowledge of . But she was completely , Diljit Dosanjh-ed ! 

Let us all focus on the 9 th and hope that this was not mere entertainment for all but has led to a serious introspection of our society . 

Chardi kala for all

 Its Day 6 and protest continues. They challenged the farmers thinking they would cow down , go back after facing all the blockades, barricades , water canons and tear gas attacks and false cases that were implicating them for murder and attempt to murder. It became Punjabi vs the rest of the country and then it spiralled to them being called terrorists . They tried the old age scheme of labelling us as Khalistanis and thought that would make the public go against the support that was being garnered here and abroad . It also led to a shameful actress maligning an old lady as being available for hire as low as Rs 100 ( I’m sorry I am not going to forget and forgive this one ) and for the first time going to follow the hashtag of banning Kangana Ranaut . 

Imagine, the entire country has come out in support for these farmers who just happen to be Punjabi Jats and are the face of protest . Its just that we grow wheat , rice and also contribute milk to the central pool not to forget the maximum number of martyrs are from the state. I don’t remember anyone not dying just because it was for India or the homeland. One of the farmers rightly said , we cant have consensus in our own religious body , how can we want Khalistan ? A Sardar is an epitome of being strong , of being the protector of ones izzat , girls are told to take a taxi where the driver is a Sardar late at night , be it Bombay , Delhi or New York .

We are made to be the butt of every joke, of every drunk joke, of being flashy , ostentatious and flashy and to have grand life styles, have you ever gone to an ordinary farmers house? Have you seen how he toils ? He sleeps with one eye open looking towards the sky ..

This is true for each and every farmer , the protest has been joined by the Jats of Haryana , UP , Bihar , MP , Uttarakhand. The big brother Punjab has united one and all,says the Rajasthani farmer . 

Dividing us , has led to being unified with the rest of the country and the Azaan and the Ardas and the Pooja are all sung together . Its late at night and am snug in my fleece jacket , wearing warm socks and have the heater on , but my heart beats for my bazurg who lay on the roads covered with their blankets and quilts who have come in for the long haul but are being affected by the dip in temperature at night. They are all old and all  they ask as citizens of this country , as Hindustanis that the laws be taken back. Why is it hard to understand that we don’t want them? The countryside is ablaze with sending support , pinnis , dry milk , ladoos, Mathis and medicines . Someone is giving blankets, someone water , someone is singing , someone is tending to the sick , someone is making rotis on a tawi ... the love, bonhomie , the spirit of Chardi kala unites all and in the end the wrinkles of every farmer is one and doesn’t say he is a punjabi or a Hindu or a Muslim .

It shows the vagaries of nature and the steel nature that have built this country and can withstand anything . Let us continue our support and love and prayers for them . Hope and faith are what a farmers sows and he feeds the nation inspite of all the hardships he faces ...