It’s the Leak Age. Everything leaks; revenue, papers, newly constructed buildings, important modern ones! Even the Wikileaks innovator is free! How can the heavens be immune? They seem to have opened their floodgates. The pun is unintentional but could have been retentional. This pun is deliberate.
Everyone seems to be wiggling their Pinky at the Teacher, the Almighty included. While the latter might be in retaliation for our desecration of His Creation or a warning for our future condition, the rest is our own making. Nothing to do with our Maker! Or so it would seem.
Investigation might reveal otherwise, as in the case of the unfortunate death of the IAS aspirants in Delhi. It wasn’t the waterlogging or the abasement of a basement for lofty aspirations, but an SUV driver who was testing their vehicle on the waterlogged street! Just like we, as children, used to test our feet in puddles on the street, or as vehicles now splash through potholes. Oh, how the world has evolved from monsoon to monsoon!
When it’s absent, we pray “come soon,” often without an umbrella in hand. The Almighty understands and sends a deluge. And when He does, we scramble to save our barks because we didn’t save our trees. If you put the cart before the horse, the horse learns reverse engineering! And how!
It’s been expressly claimed by the powers that be, that four-lane expressways are being built at a rapid pace. And really they look like a wow! Running straight through mountain terrain, making life easy for the busy commuter and difficult for the mud to hold on to its dignity!
Media reports say warnings were given about the leakage from heaven, but on earth, one has to do something about them, not just warn and scorn. But I guess that’s not a comprehensible philosophy in the realm of the divine!
One of the truths that emerge from the unfortunate incidents in Delhi, Kota and the Courts is that “Coaching,” not education or mentoring, is seen as key to our future in the service of the nation. Perhaps it is in-built into the Leak Age Education Policy! LEAP!
Service, servitude, attitude, or long-term capital gains? – It’s quite confusing what the aspirants are looking for that drives them into waterlogged basements for “coaching” and to keep them logged in!
Maybe in the end it is long-term capital gains. It is exactly what it refers to – A secure job, with a steady incremental earnings stream. It is a parliamentary term often used in the Budget speech in regard to Futures and Options, buzzwords for the young these days as they face a future with very few options.
One thing was not leaked: the Budget itself. After eating the Halwa, everyone went into silent mode hoping for gains in the capital. And that’s what they got. Sweets before the bitter gourd, not the other way around which is the usual practice. And those with gold in netherlands, well, a laxative!
Huggies – Where art thou?