Yesterday I put up this fb post ( which I later deleted ) :
” I wish to die now. I have done my duty to my country, and now I need rest “.
Soon thereafter I started receiving a continuous series of phone calls and messages from relatives, well wishers and others asking why I had posted it.
I replied that I spoke about dying because of my frustration at feeling alone, like in an island surrounded by an ocean of idiots, the latest proof being the shouting from the rooftops by Indian politicians, mediapersons, and the general public in India that it was Pakistan which was responsible for the Pahalgam attack, when there is as yet not an iota of evidence in support of this assertion.
I was reminded of the Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’, who used to say ” Off with his head ” whenever anyone suspected of a crime was brought before her.
When someone asked what about giving the man a hearing or holding a trial, she would reply ” Off with his head first, trial afterwards “.
The Indian politicians, media, and the vast majority of Indians, are behaving like the Queen of Hearts.
The whole of India seems to have become a lunatic asylum. I am reminded of the movie ‘One flew over the cuckoo’s nest’ which I saw a long time back.
Why should I want to keep living in a country which resembles a madhouse ?
