The year seems to be ending with the first sign of the physical
existence of the Maoist in Kerala. I’m persuaded to wonder if the Maoist incursion
was the only woe that was missing in God’s own State. When conversions and home
comings are the rage of the day, perhaps the insurgents will baptize the tribal
in the hills of Kerala into their ways. And could someone blame and cry wolf
for that?
Leopard cannot and will not change it spots.
The question if it is the ‘will’ or ‘cannot’ that stand out can
be debated. But the fact remains that the spots that were before, stays put. But
yet, I like many others hoped for the impossible. The shenanigans orchestrated these
days through the charade called “Home Coming” is falling flat against the
thesis and the scholarship put forth by eminent historians that India is a land
where 92 percent of the present population are descendants of emigrants. It was
believed at a not so distant time that Dravidians were the original inhabitants
of India, that view has since been considerably modified. Now the generally
accepted thesis is that the pre-Dravidian aborigines- the ancestors of the present
day people, who we call Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes), were the original inhabitants.
So factually speaking most of us will have to leave the sub-continent
lock-stock& barrel, because we simply do not belong here and we criminally
usurped the land of the original inhabitants or say the early inhabitants.
Mercifully the
extraneous factor that always decided our economic fate – the crude oil price
has plummeted southwards and the Leopards could revel in the fortuitous boon that
has come about. Though that has not alleviated our plight and the hardships in
our daily chores, the Leopards could quote statistical wonders that have come to
play in their favour. Foreboding of a return of the mother and son and the coterie
of sycophants are also helping the felines.
While we brace ourselves for more aggressive posturing of
the Leopards who simply cannot shed their parentage, people in Kerala have
something to cheer when the year whimpers out. The Gandhian KPCC President
V.M.Sudheeran has lost out with his obstinate autocratic style of functioning, one
that perhaps he simulated from his icon Mohandas Gandhi. Tipsy days are back
again and here to stay and Sundays can be reveling as before. That is the sole
solace that seems to strike a chord in me in this whole year that went past.
