Our Common Wealth of Neros

To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn."

Seeing the CWG fiasco unveiling itself before our eyes many of us many may be tempted to grit our teeth and say “a people deserves the political masters that it gets…” but haven’t we as a nation reached its nadir with our handling of the games. What a basket case we must seem to the world and here we have politicians and bureaucrat of all shapes and sizes, from the petit Sheila Dixit to Calamity Kalmadi keeping a poker face and saying ‘aall is wellll…, aall is well…”. The CWG Village maybe a filthy pig-sty but then Indians always were environment friendly and pooed in the open…and hence we really don’t identify with people who flush their turd down a tube…yuk and here you are, complaining while we are trying so hard to make a whole village environment friendly!

What a motley crowd of jokers, nincompoops and mediocres has this nation surrounded itself with…Behold the right honourable Mani Shankar Aiyar doing a merry little jig in his garden now that the games are crumbling…or take a peek into 10 Janpath and pay obedience to the reining deity of the Indian political governance (sic) system…and what may she be playing now…the harp? Or shall we zip down to Panchavati, 7 Race Course Road, where we thought resided an intelligent and intellectual Indian but alas, what has the system done to him…he is a but a shadow of his former self, surrounded as he is with spineless bureaucrats…

Phew! What a close call…we almost got done in by the spanking white Ambassador car with a shining red beacon…that screaming fly past was by Ms Sheila Dixit, one who got us into this shit…she is off to the CWG site…the roof of the stadia shouldn’t cave in…bricks and tiles can rain down on the athletes…large projects do have small hiccups…wow Ms Dixit, you are Nero born twice!

And as trudge along, our heads hanging we are accosted by a group of patriots…"why you worm" they say "you should stand by the nation and its politicians and its bureaucrats and its…what a shame…you should feel proud and not pick holes…oh! The sadness of it all"