The OP begins

(not to mention 'fictitious')

The first week of July, no doubt my mind (a 3rd year kgpian's) is full of classical and mysterious weapons to orient (not literally) the last year's so-called 'damaads' of the hall. Surely, I am not the only one giving time to these thoughts. We have been working on this for quite a while now devising new methods.  The scientists in some part of the world are grilled up with the Higgs' particle and bosons and all, myself more satisfied with improving the 'JUGNU dance' and the 'Frequency' concepts. They do need a change. There's no fun when all the fachchas have more funda than you, although wrong, some things are meant to be known at the right time. 

 

For the to-be sophies, don’t read this article trying to decipher anything, literally even I don’t give a damn to the ‘OP specials’ now.  But yes, after having a double thorough read ‘India After Gandhi’ by Ramchandra Guha, I have started finding the similarities in the regular ‘OP season’ and ‘India’s journey in the last 60 odd years’.  At the first sight, it does seem foolish but when I give a second thought to it, picture looks clear and gets clearer every time with more chapters added to it.

So, let me put things simpler.  India is basically a normal kgpian and the colonial days of the 200 long years under the british were exactly similar to those in Kota. Getting out of the homely comforts into some foreign hands, things being systemized and roughening you up for the big day. Freedom from the colonists did come at the right time when the whole world was gearing up and you thought you were ready, so India boarded the democratic train with an illusionary vision of where we headed to, don’t tell me you didn’t expect Kharagpur something better. 

 You came prepared for the tough times ahead aka ‘Ragging :P’ but thanks to some good past ideology ‘Fachche Insti ke damaad hote hain’ and you were spared. Similarly, the first few years of the Indian democracy were peaceful though you may argue of the glitches in constitutionary reforms, the general elections etc etc etc, but I would sum them up into academic load and the first 10 years passed and the fachcha time was over.

The fun part comes now.  Jab aapke saas-sasur apke ‘Orientation Program’  ke liye tayyari karke aaye the (me in current mode). Well, India too had to go through lots of self-improving orientation programs in the 1965-85 mode. The longest ‘20 year’ period ever it had to live. Be it the Naga trouble or the Chinese aggression, India had a tough time but unarguably , as OP is expected to, it was learning experience.  Even the 2 year emergency in ’75 brought system back to performing as per world standards, though it was completely an undemocratic time, newspapers not allowed to publish anti-govt articles in the same way a sophie kgpian isn’t allowed to update his fb offensive status. But yes, disciplined system comes back to action and that’s what happened after that emergency period.

Be it the first non-congress party rule in ’77 which dismantled within two years or the sikh riots of ’84, the constitution was just in a phase where a kgpain has to cover as much portion possible with a  single newspaper page and the first thing he covers definitely needs no mention. India also managed to protect its constitutionary laws though they were nude now.

The only thing that troubles me right now is that the India went through all the phases peacefully with a bit hiccups, be it mess OP or the wing one, but still the ‘Mass Rape’ phase which is supposed to end within a few hours for a kgpian has extended over 25 years for India. Its time to end it and get back to the reverse OP mode though the zero gravity phase is still left and all things will fall out of place.