I chose this heading to exactly describe the feeling I came back with after my brief visit to my homeland...I mean, how do you describe your family that's gone rotten to the core, without being passionate about it, I can't do it.
I had gone home to Manipur after a gap of a year and a half hoping to find wrong all the vile inputs I had been getting from news and views and I was distraught to find them all too true. The roads had gone to the dogs, electricity the source of development was conditional which directly resulted in all business requiring power to go back to the stone ages; thieves were ruling the roost, and petrol pumps played the perfect joker displaying "no stock" in anticipation of higher prices whence they could sell their avarice at a higher price; killings left and right, usual nationalism excuse, I can go on and on...
The 6 days and 6 nights I spent there, never did a day pass without me thinking how this would all end and I wished a thermonuclear device would explode right over this valley taking everybody with it and sparing only those deserving of life and continuity; O how I wish a Hitler would rise and strike an iron hand and smite these worms and pests that wriggle in and out of the sludge and then plough the land for a new begining where there would be no worms and pests.
Where are we? What should we do? When...
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