I see a dead country

It appears that the Pratibha Patil ghost viewing episode has creeped the heck out of Indian blogosphere. Everyone has fallen silent, not a peep from our sec-soc (secular socialist) friends.

Come to think of it, this supernatural experience is not without precedents among the socialists. Recently Tehelka columnist Meera Nanda conducted a seance of sorts. Dr. Ambedkar's ghost entered her body and issued stern warnings to Mayavati - hate Brahmins and love Congress, or else ...

The whole socialist ideology is based upon spirituality and life stories, in which ghosts from the past come and whisper words into their ears. Words that later become national policy. Thousand year old ghosts of alleged oppression haunt city based iPod toting OBC kids and numb them into mediocrity. They later become life stories and come out of the mouth of our Harvard educated finance minister.

Admittedly, there is a long trail of corruption and intrigue behind this woman that even the biggest spinners of Congress are unable to make light of. You can read some of it from this blog and from this article. This isn't the story of a small grameen bank going belly up following a drought. This is a systematic tale of organized crime that starts at the legislature and ends in murder. Pratibha Tai's brew is a deadly cocktail of insider trading, hawala, nepotism, mafia, supari, racketeering, violation of fiduciary duties, black marketing, hoarding, tax evasion ... the list runs long.

I still think we have no reason to get depressed over this. Think of the positive side, sheer comic relief for the next few years. Imagine, a president who can talk to ghosts! How cool is that? RC says he is game.

I think you should be too. After all, what is the worst that can happen after the misrule of the last 60 years?