A 3-column front page pix in The Indian Express of Pankaja Munde, Maharashtra Minister for Water Conservation, Guardian Minister for Beed and Latur, taking a selfie reviewing drought relief work in Latur. Top half of the front page of Mathrubhoomi is Trichur Pooram with unfortunate elephants, sorry our and me Lord Ganeshes (me goes to Kottarakara (when in Kerala) to say thanks to Lord Ganesh and where me was born). And IPL eats up the Sports Page. Trichur Pooram and IPL twin souls the Indian middle class to which me belongs. Trichur Pooram consumes made in Dubai souls of Malayalis. IPL chews up the post 1993 middle class souls of Dr. Manmohan Singh. On Sunday alternated between live Trichur Pooram on Malayalam channels and IPL on sports streams; with short rests in the air conditioned comfort of the bedroom; elephants demeaned by chains and crackers cannot protest, cannot charge; they are stuck; for the Indian middlers, prayer hours for a job in Dubai or New Zealand, a forest bunglow built chopping trees and with it the animals, two Mercs, five Harleys, a swimming pool, 10 kg of Joyaluka gold for the locked limb and mind Lady at home ... and liquid cash, not cashless Rajans; of course, the prayers and the Pooram come a week after 108 died in a temple cracker fire at Kolllam in dear old Kerala. Mathrubhoomi 8-col. headlines: Peruma kaaththu Poorathilakam (Pooram pride). If in Trichur, children and the sick and the old and Gods are upset so be it for Pooram pride. Nay, Gods be blown; it is entirely of Indian middlers paperconed in middle class swindles. At 8 in the evening, the IPL was lapping beered souls of Indian middlers; in Bengaluru, Virat Kohli lost to Zaheer Khan; or that's what me read in Monday morning papers; IPL is a parallax of Trichur Pooram; there is fixing, there is drinking, there is sexing, there is abundant Muslim hatred (Pakistani cricketers cannot bid); there is no cricket as cricket cannot be called cricket if the bowler is to be chained and whipped like the Pooram elephant by an armed batsman; but the Indian middler likes it because he is like it. Fixing he does a plenty in the office to get a rise or a foreign trip. Footabll is a contact sport said K.Bhaskaran; IPL has become a contact sport with abuse aplenty; crowds serve abuses; its a part of their literature; click selfies more than sixes and fours; TV cameras more on Ambanis, Tendulkars, Bachchans, less on a disabled IPL game; the Indian middler does that in and out of the office; at all hours. Marathwada farmers can die; its their kismet; its a rain fault; why shift IPL? how does it help farmers? And the Indian middler is a firm believer in kismet. Trichur Pooram is kismet. IPL is kismet. The Indian middler is kismet. Anton Chekhov in the short story, My Life writes: 'I did not know one honest man in the town. My father took bribes, and imagined that they were given him out of respect for his moral qualities......' For Indian middler, Kismet is also amenable to bribes. Kismet is Trichur Pooram and IPL raised to Infinity.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Pooram and IPL
A 3-column front page pix in The Indian Express of Pankaja Munde, Maharashtra Minister for Water Conservation, Guardian Minister for Beed and Latur, taking a selfie reviewing drought relief work in Latur. Top half of the front page of Mathrubhoomi is Trichur Pooram with unfortunate elephants, sorry our and me Lord Ganeshes (me goes to Kottarakara (when in Kerala) to say thanks to Lord Ganesh and where me was born). And IPL eats up the Sports Page. Trichur Pooram and IPL twin souls the Indian middle class to which me belongs. Trichur Pooram consumes made in Dubai souls of Malayalis. IPL chews up the post 1993 middle class souls of Dr. Manmohan Singh. On Sunday alternated between live Trichur Pooram on Malayalam channels and IPL on sports streams; with short rests in the air conditioned comfort of the bedroom; elephants demeaned by chains and crackers cannot protest, cannot charge; they are stuck; for the Indian middlers, prayer hours for a job in Dubai or New Zealand, a forest bunglow built chopping trees and with it the animals, two Mercs, five Harleys, a swimming pool, 10 kg of Joyaluka gold for the locked limb and mind Lady at home ... and liquid cash, not cashless Rajans; of course, the prayers and the Pooram come a week after 108 died in a temple cracker fire at Kolllam in dear old Kerala. Mathrubhoomi 8-col. headlines: Peruma kaaththu Poorathilakam (Pooram pride). If in Trichur, children and the sick and the old and Gods are upset so be it for Pooram pride. Nay, Gods be blown; it is entirely of Indian middlers paperconed in middle class swindles. At 8 in the evening, the IPL was lapping beered souls of Indian middlers; in Bengaluru, Virat Kohli lost to Zaheer Khan; or that's what me read in Monday morning papers; IPL is a parallax of Trichur Pooram; there is fixing, there is drinking, there is sexing, there is abundant Muslim hatred (Pakistani cricketers cannot bid); there is no cricket as cricket cannot be called cricket if the bowler is to be chained and whipped like the Pooram elephant by an armed batsman; but the Indian middler likes it because he is like it. Fixing he does a plenty in the office to get a rise or a foreign trip. Footabll is a contact sport said K.Bhaskaran; IPL has become a contact sport with abuse aplenty; crowds serve abuses; its a part of their literature; click selfies more than sixes and fours; TV cameras more on Ambanis, Tendulkars, Bachchans, less on a disabled IPL game; the Indian middler does that in and out of the office; at all hours. Marathwada farmers can die; its their kismet; its a rain fault; why shift IPL? how does it help farmers? And the Indian middler is a firm believer in kismet. Trichur Pooram is kismet. IPL is kismet. The Indian middler is kismet. Anton Chekhov in the short story, My Life writes: 'I did not know one honest man in the town. My father took bribes, and imagined that they were given him out of respect for his moral qualities......' For Indian middler, Kismet is also amenable to bribes. Kismet is Trichur Pooram and IPL raised to Infinity.
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