THE POLICEMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

For a cop nothing is more expected than the unexpected. So it must not have been that weird for the wheels of a police jeep to squeal in the verdant campus of our college twice the same day: first transporting an enlightened passenger, an angel carrying the torch of decorum and etiquette, ready to throw fatherly advice around for the unsuspecting, gullible students, huddled together in rusty chairs and ramshackle desks. Then, within hours, he is metamorphosed into the boot of law witnessing the collapse of the order he had tried to build. If you had deluded yourself to be a beacon, condescendingly shedding blazing rays of culture and civilization in the first avatar, the second coming is depressingly bereft of soothing illusions. You stand in the shades, hands thrust into your not-so-frequently-washed-trousers, trying to look solemn and fuming with moral indignation, even if you are shaking and sweating. The Constitution of India offers (with life-time spot warranty) the complete, absolute, unconditional and inalienable right to curse yourself through grinding teeth and marvel at the students who within hours of having been edified successfully managed to single out a docile guy and beat him blue and black. You may get livid over the fact. You may think the little thugs are gagging democracy. Alas! Nothing could be far from reality. The thrashing one receives at the hands of students who study to struggle and struggle to study with the sole intention of ushering in Freedom, Democracy and Socialism is a gentle reminder of a painful reality. My dear friend, despite you blue bla bla you are not mature to enjoy the fruits of Freedom, Democracy and Socialism. Look, you are little better than a fool. You don’t know how to run a government. You are blissfully ignorant of the intricate dialectical materialism that governs the universe. What do you know about the theoretical crutches to interpret the world? Telling the truth may be painful, but you know, truth always comes at a cost. So, my dear friends, your color is blue and try to watch blue. It will erect you, like Ujala Stiff and Shine revives wrinkled clothes. You will forget bloody mechanisms of rules in no time. Leave the pains of success and power to us.