BIG BROTHER WATCHING;HE IS THERE AFTER YOU ON EVERY OCCASION !
The sweep is wholly Goebbelesian. Much as you might try to get away from it you can be sure about one thing: there’s no escaping him; you may wish to give him a miss, he won’t let go of you. You wake up with the voice and sleep with it; for the present at least the voice is your companion for keeps: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. The message is the thing and the messenger is unrelenting.
It is right there on the front pages of all your newspapers, it confronts you the moment you switch on your idiot box, no matter how often and when. And, it is there again if you have chosen to escape to the radio channels, AIR, FM stations. If you think you are being clever by turning to untouchables like the Antakshri or, why, even the Krishi Samachar, you are in for a surprise. The voice, if not the face, is there even before you have made the switch. The relentless voice of “the most popular Prime Minister of India” follows you everywhere, even to your bed, like Goebbels’s did promoting the Fuehrer’s cause. Lesser PMs like Nehru, Shastri, Indira, Atal Bihari Vajpayee be blown.
The message must chase us from morning’s ‘surya pranam’ to the ‘shubh ratri’ at night. Mr. Modi y’see, has so much to tell us – right from how important it is for us to wash our hands each time we use them, to his scheme-a-day plans for us to overtake China. Like, say, made in India must yield place to make in India. All these, and other noble thoughts. Like, bringing to book all wrong-doers, tax dodgers, hawalawallas and swindlers, who have deposited the nation’s wealth in foreign banks. The maa-beta too shall be exposed.
The sweep is wholly Goebbelesian. Much as you might try to get away from it you can be sure about one thing: there’s no escaping him; you may wish to give him a miss, he won’t let go of you. You wake up with the voice and sleep with it; for the present at least the voice is your companion for keeps: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. The message is the thing and the messenger is unrelenting.
It is right there on the front pages of all your newspapers, it confronts you the moment you switch on your idiot box, no matter how often and when. And, it is there again if you have chosen to escape to the radio channels, AIR, FM stations. If you think you are being clever by turning to untouchables like the Antakshri or, why, even the Krishi Samachar, you are in for a surprise. The voice, if not the face, is there even before you have made the switch. The relentless voice of “the most popular Prime Minister of India” follows you everywhere, even to your bed, like Goebbels’s did promoting the Fuehrer’s cause. Lesser PMs like Nehru, Shastri, Indira, Atal Bihari Vajpayee be blown.
The message must chase us from morning’s ‘surya pranam’ to the ‘shubh ratri’ at night. Mr. Modi y’see, has so much to tell us – right from how important it is for us to wash our hands each time we use them, to his scheme-a-day plans for us to overtake China. Like, say, made in India must yield place to make in India. All these, and other noble thoughts. Like, bringing to book all wrong-doers, tax dodgers, hawalawallas and swindlers, who have deposited the nation’s wealth in foreign banks. The maa-beta too shall be exposed.
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