United States of lunatics
-        Abhijit Das Gupta
 
So every Hindu woman must have four children…  Sakshi Maharaj, the MP from Uttar Pradesh issues a hindu fatwa! I don’t dare to do even simple arithmetic. Wonder who can help us if that really happens. Are we a Nation of people united by a thread called Indian or a country of fragmented religious fundamentalists? Are we really becoming so weak so as to lean and depend on these fanatics whose claim to fame has been holding hands with an unseen God? This great politician has a rather impressive criminal record as well. Besides breaking Masjids, he has broken many families too. He was accused of murder, of rape and even spent some time glorifying the Tihar jail.  And he was ousted from his party once!
In harmony with this mentally ill person is another from Bengal. He is one step up. He wants women to become factories with as many as five children.
Why do people pay any heed to such irresponsible persons and their insane remarks? There is a saying that when you are at sea, you tend to hang on to a straw. These are straws that have long decomposed and do not have any buoyancy left. Or may be, they were born a little handicapped at a certain upper region of the human species.
Do these maniacs have enough hidden money to feed the hindu population bomb that will burst if ever this nightmare happens?  I can understand the kind of money these fake gurus make from the number of astrologers who hog television time. With dwindling confidence, ever decreasing income against high inflation, people are resorting to the healing suggestions with many coloured stones and various roots doing roaring business.  Add to it the palm readers who predict ‘bad times now’ but good days ahead – if only…As far as I know, the word Hindu came from Indus river. People who lived by the river were the Indus or Hindus. But the Indus is in Pakistan. Not in India. Even they now fear the pressure and intimidation that one has to endure to have more than one wife! It takes a lot of courage to have more than one.
And the Hindus believe in reincarnation. That means each dead will emerge in the form of four or five! Statistically, one brain will get divided into four or five parts. What would that mean? Let us ask a statistician.    Going by a recent film, if we need to dial God, dial straight. Not through an operator who, more often than not, connects you to a wrong number. Irrespective of the look, shape or size, all Gods of all religions preach peace.  How can you have any peace with quarrelling wives and four children creating a cacophony?   Even Valmiki ji in the Ramayana did not fail to foresee what happens to a king with discontented wives.We can bear them because we are hindus. Our socio-religious tradition says that you burn and break a pot and don’t look back. A living becomes a fading memory in a moment. That is the secret of our survival.  If we care to remember all the lunatics, or even give importance to such wild banters, we will ourselves land up in asylums.