We Indians love suspense thrill and imagination. That is why we are mad after IPL, stock market tracking and spending time on political surveys. We also love astrology and soap operas; those of us who can afford love to get hooked on horse racing, costly lotteries of the Dubai Duty-Free variety and even pure and simple satta bazar! Our obsession with numbers and particularly with probability theory, numerology and others in the vein is legendary!
What a windfall time for fantasizers, storytellers and gossip mongers is the Election time!
Astrologers, satta bazar analysts and pure speculators are already dishing out ‘expert advice’ on which party would win, who would get how many seats, who would be in and who would go into cold storage till the next opportunity arrives.
It looks like the elections are slowly but surely crawling into the forbidden territory. Lies, speculations, alarmist messages, deep-fake messaging manipulating the AI technologies and what not! Character assassination, name-calling, and outright gutter-language expletives are all flying around.
I am convinced that by the time we reach the seventh phase on the first of June, we will have thrown enough and more muck on each other and will have damaged personal niceties and decorum of public narratives very badly.
India being the legendary land of dharma and karma, those who are taking recourse to the dirty games would get pulverized in the fury of public indignation.
It's not vision or ambition but greed, jealousy and nastiness that is at play in the election scenario. Cry, My Beloved Country.
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