Bland-55 Fiction

Note:- 55  Fiction infers to fictional writings limited to 55 words

I know very well about your skills and capability...
You are adept in doing it...
You have got great experience.
You did it earlier..
at many places...
with many people...
Now, you have got the chance to entice me with your suavity
and something in me is desperate for it...
but still, go back! Walmart!

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PS: Brand but bland
PSS: Expressed for 3ww with hinted words Chance, Entice and Suave

Whack, You or Me?

Note : This post is my entry for  Blogadda's   ‘Whack!! this Wednesday’ contest. 
 

I have my culture, tribal

though you say we don't

I don't have civilization

Though you have at their rapid speed

I have never asked you to be like me,

But every step you take

leads to my conversion and

adaptation to urbanization, no no,

its elimination of my culture

Both my language and me are in extinction.

tigers are better treated than me.

Call me dog, but treat me like me

I don't want to whack you,

but..

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I speak my language, rural.

You call it vernacular and native,

and you look down at me ....

You speak their language,

you call it refined and polished though colonial,

You have media, money and manipulation

You rate it higher and feel superior

I don't want to whack you,

but..

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I toil hard with nature, in nature,

That is my nature to give fruits

You toil smart in ACs for them

You take away our fruits for peanuts

You think about every brand

everything in brand

I don't think about any  brand

as long as it is a bowl of rice .

Else, we do have better choice,

subsidized branded pesticides.

I don't want to whack you,

but..

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I wait for it, every year and everywhere

from the sky, from the ground and every way

For you it is their consumer product, in bottles

They suck it from my sweat and blood

whenever you gulp it into your throats.

I dwell deeper for it into many wells

also, much deeper into debts, then

Much more deeper into life , and

Finally out of life, does it matter?

pushing my family into a deeper well

I don't want to whack you,

but..

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I take up all the so called low grade jobs,

with technique and precision

dirty, smelly, stinky and tough, under sun.

You call  it impure and isolate us.

You memorize few strange stanzas, under roof

make it aplomb with rituals and presentation..

And hence self proclaimed sacredness

to grab money, power and respect.

I stop my job,

check whether society moves on

You stop yours.

I bet Gods, it hardly impacts,

neither you sacred lines nor the myth.

Here, you are like Them,

exactly like them,

You are almost them. You are them.

I don't want to whack you,

but,

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But, before I whack, let me tell you who i am

I am one of the group called WE

We are tribes,

we are rural,

we are farmers,

we are peasants,

we are workers.....

We are sure,

We are not "We the People"

We have been neglected and humiliated

in the name of westernized and globalized development.

Then who are We?

We are "We the'y' people".......... But Y ?

Because you and they have media, money and manipulation (3M)

Anyway, I along with the WE want to whack hard

Whack whom?

No, not the you.

We are not like you

We and I  want to whack the system not the people,

who are mere puppets in the hands of system.

Yes, the same system which you have named like

Capitalism, Corporatism , Consumerism, Colonialism. (4C)

But I/we call it Feudalism

I/WE whack Feudalism and

all the 4Cs and 3Ms

out of the seas and borders

but only in books and blogs.

Anyway it is time for them and you to whack me, as usual.

not in writings but in reality, daily and forever.

Whack me, Sir ji! Whack me!

PS : The 'I' in all these stories represent the social 'me' and hence I claim the share in 'I'.  

PPS: Thanks to Rachana for passing the Que.

Escape

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Note:- This post is a pseudo-77 Fiction

Escape

I was standing at the river bank with a female body at my feet...

You don’t need to study medicine to know how she had died...

She died when a metal rod  repeatedly hit her head so hard  that her brain popped out of  her skull...

I wasn’t anxious to call a doctor, as at the time one end of the rod was cracking her skull, the other end happened to be in my hands....

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Wait...... read the story again with the following roles  :

                          I            - Capitalist Corporate

               She         - Earth             

               Rod         - Consumerism

           Doctor     - Conscience

        River       - Evolution

 Now, rather than thinking, " Who is escaping here?", .....

It would be better to ask , " Who is allowing the Escape to happen?"

Escape happens every second........ to us, with us, by us and around us......  and hence impacting us ..... and finally to erase us!!!

We can Escape easily from the responsibility of Escape with the help of numbers and statistics, but we cannot escape from the Wisdom of Nature.

PS : Intelligence is not an end in itself, it is one of the means to reach the ends.

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Farmers and Corporate India

Consider a family of 10 people with 1000 rupees monthly income . They have two choices.  

1. Everyone in the family gets a share of 100 rupees

2. Only 2 people get 900 rupees and remaining 8 have to share the left over 100 rupees.

Which choice do you support ?

Ideally speaking, in an Utopian voice, everyone of us will vote for first choice. Yes, It is easy to choose than to act. But, practically we have been flooded with the benefits and luxuries of fat salaries as the family of India had chosen the second choice of conscious partiality and bias towards the few lakhs corporate people over crores of farmers, since two decades. Ironically we are too busy in branded socialising and accumulating branded e-dump that we have never bothered about the remaining, who have been struggling for survival and existence, since 2 decades.

Rarely mentioned are the massive subsidies, now larger than ever before, for the Corporate sector. This year alone, the budget gifts over Rs. 500,000 crore in write-offs, direct and indirect, to the Big Boys(Corporate Sector). That's Rs. 57 crore every single hour on average — almost a crore a minute. Beating last year's Rs. 30 crore an hour by more than 70 per cent. (Ref: Tables 5 and 12 of the “Statement of Revenue Foregone” section of the budget.)

So, is it clear how India is producing Billionaires year after year ? How the Corporate Ship floats on the Fat-salary Syndrome? Who is responsible for the 2 lakh farmers suicides in india since 1997? The number is drastically many times more than the people died in terrorist activities? Isn't the issue more serious than terrorism. Is development at the cost of millions of lives valid, meaningful and Justified ? What is the meaning of having a notion of one country? We are living in the green pastures of golden illusion that we deserve every penny we have earned. But ...

• There is hunger, starvation and death of thousands of hapless farmers behind every corporate luxury and aplomb. There is a painful cry, exploitation and injustice behind every lavish penny we are spending in this consumerist  electronic lifestyle. There are mass hungers, starvations and malnutritioned child deaths behind every urbanised superiority complex attitude. There are many hidden, untold tragedies and suicides on every currency note we spend affluently with pride.

1. Why do the so called self proclaimed corporate tech savvy intellectuals and genius professionals need monetary concessions every year?(Rs. 57 crore every single hour in 2010 )
2. Why do pesticides kill more farmers than pests in India? 
3. Why do we conveniently ignore our indirect role in this corporate gambling ?(Oh k k ....fat salaries?)
4. Why do corporate people  get concessions and monetary benefits every year where as farmers get loan waiver only once in two decades ? (Party Funds???) 
5. Why don't the media talks about them(Oh! Corporate Media!)?
6. Who is exploiting and plundering the innocents in the name of globalisation and corporate capitalism and finally calling it development? (?????)
7. Why do the so called elite-modern-educated need a special financial platforms? Are they intellectually handicapped? 
8. Why a farmer, the food giver, starves and begs for the same food he had produced?
9. Who is ruling India as of now, ultimately, in the name of globalisation ?

 BTW, Why the tree of India is cutting down its own roots just because it has got colourful flowers and delicious fruits ???

Do we really care?
Are we ready to take the call of  social revolution and the responsibility ?
Are we ready for sacrifices and radical reforms?

We may shrug of these social differences simply by saying that we are not directly responsible for them  . Yeah, go for an easy way. Lets start blaming the politicians. Yes, we should even stop uttering pompous slogans like "Hamara Bharath Mahan". It is better to say "Mera Lifestyle Mahan".
It was shocking and shivering when the Pink Slip Syndrome stroked us last year. Imagine the plight of those volatile farmers who have been facing the Pink slips for LIFE every year, since 1991.

I would like to end  with.......

"We can wake up a person who is sleeping, but we cannot wake up a person who pretends to be sleeping "

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Anyway,
Lets have Happy Hallucinations in the proverbial Frog's Well .
Worried about Hike?

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Notes : (Source : The Hindu, March 1)

1. An incentive to repay loans on time — which millions of farmers cannot do — is being passed off as an additional subsidy to the aam kisan in this budget. And there is still an air of self-congratulation on the Rs. 70,000-crore farm loan waiver of 2008. A one-off waiver that comes once in so many decades.

2 .Yet revenue foregone in this budget in direct tax concessions to corporate tax payers is close to Rs. 80,000 crores. It was over Rs. 66,000 crore last year. And Rs. 62,000 crore the year before that. In all, Rs. 2,08,000 crores of direct freebies in 36 months.

3. Consider that this loot-and-grab sortie has been on for two decades now. It means that in direct tax freebies alone the corporate sector has had the equivalent of some 15 'farm loan waivers' since 1991. Then there's the indirect stuff. In this year's budget: Revenue foregone in excise duty — Rs. 1,70,765 crores. Customs duty — Rs.2,49,021 crores. Together with the Rs.80,000 crore in direct write-offs, the total nears Rs. 500,000 crores.