2015 a Bhakt year

Woke up after a walk in his Gah village in Pakistan with parents. Long time since Dr. Manmohan Singh strolled Gah as a kid, smelling the green air and water. In the morning quiet, listened to muted notes of the Gurubani, a habit for long; being the last day of 2015, he dropped the walk, into Gurubani when wife, Gursharan Kaur, came with tea and Marie; they sat, sipped and smiled; Gurubani is like that; these mornings, none bothers him; he has been forgotten by all and Dr. Singh is not slighted by the forgetting. Its been so when he was Prime Minister. Fresh morning newspapers do not mention him and that suits him; he randomly opened The Indian Express and dropped into Mehdi Hasan's piece Head to head with hate: Hell has no fury like a Hindu nationalist scorned -- as I found out after my Ram Madhav interview. Hasan works for Al Jazeera, a TV channel more satisfying than BBC and CNN.  Hasan writes: ...' I have been denounced and defamed as a "closet Islamist", a "funder of ISIS", and -- perhaps the most damning appellation of all in The Bumper Book of Bhakt Political Insults - a "Pakistani." Hasan, born and brought up in UK of Indian parents, is a Pakistani for bhakts; 'wonder what bhakts think of me, born in Pakistan, living in India, mused Dr. Singh, a bit scared. Of course, he did not rush the Internet or mailed any response; as usual thought quietly. When Dr. Singh thinks quietly, none knows what he thinks. Perhaps, hurt over an India gobbled by bhakts; under the lead of Narendra Modi; since Modi is in power, bhakts have taken over, dissenters abused and sometimes shot and killed; hate is a reasoned emotion of pros and cons unlike compassion. Modi as Gujarat Chief Minister turned Gujarat into an adda of  bhakts; none else can live in Gujarat with its 20-laned skyways without trees, bullet trains, electricity for the bhakts....as Prime Minister Modi, India has turned monotone, the bhakt-tone; the country has been knifed into pieces; the Prime Minister has not a minute for farmers, Dalits, Adivasis, the poor... dissenters working for the stranded of society have no say ....development will pull them in, is the thought process and development will be by corporates, funded by public funds, the funders of bhakts. A 20 lane highway is preferred to many Ramayanas; there will be one Ramayana of the bhakts. Karthika Nair in Until the Lions, Echoes from the Mahabharata, verses: 'Listen. Listen: hate rises, hate blazes, hate bellows from battlefields. Hate arrives -- searing rivers, shrivelling plains, reaping deserts on its path ...' On the last day of 2015, yes, the streets are strewn with hatred and fear veining the much old land ...there will be more of it in 2016... Dr. Manmohan Singh, alone is not scared as Sardars are reputed to be brave ....yes, a concern lingers for the country he mostly loves. In his times, dissent did not applaud vengeful bhakts... The old man neatly folded the paper, placed it on the table to wonder over 2016 ...he has lived long for a beautiful country, to make a beautiful country ....Happy 2016, he mumbled to no one.