End of an era

No, I am not referring to the end of our beloved President A P J A Kalam’s term in his office. Enough has been said about that by journalists, tv news channel experts, ministers, children of ministers, street children and even our beloved babus from the governments. Note that the “beloved” part was put in there for sarcasm. No, I am not referring to the insignificant blip, that is the change of the president, in India’s heart beat monitor. I am of course referring to the life-altering, nation faltering and world caltering [I had to invent this word to make the sentence rhyme. Caltering is short for callous altering] event of my becoming a Post Graduate! Big deal, you say? Okay, let me show how I can end up making the world a better place. However, and regular readers will agree, since I am bound to digress at various points during my discourse, I would like to have this disclaimer right upfront:
Disclaimer: The following statements are made by a qualified Environmental Engineer. And if you disagree, you are not allowed to grimace and call the environmental engineer any names. Because even if you do, he is going to be oblivious of the same. And if you are thinking of posting nasty comments in the comments section, well, I’ll advise you to do the following: Take a deep breath, exhale out slowly, focus your mind on the happiest moments of your life, perform shirsasana and then prepare your mind for the eternal fact of life: Since I am the owner of this blog, I get to moderate comments and you don’t! Neener neener neener!
That apart, another thing that has struck me these days, other than the sweltering heat is the lack of political far sightedness in the present generation of politicians. Note here, that the present generation of politicians were all born in the thirties. They are an absolutely resolute breed of people who refuse to pass on and the reason for this is that politics in India follows a lag of around 180 degrees. This should explain all the roll backs and the retrograde laws and policies being formed and approved these days. I am sure, some time in the future, when the present generation [I am referring to the kids of today, myself included since I was born in 1940] has grown into mature adults, pornography and prostitution will be legalized in India. However, since the present generation in the future is going to be really “above” all these things, the same steps that would be seen as revolutionary today, are going to be seen as retrograde and retarded in the future. The future is bright, the future is black.
Another thing that worries me is the news snippet I read somewhere about our current president “séancing” [if there is such a word] with some moghuls. Now, séancing is a perfectly alright thing to do if you are in college and your brain is full of mish-mash, ways to get girls into your bed, ways to get guys out of your bed so that you can get the girl into your bed and in some nook / craany of the mind you may actually find some engineering formulae! However, it really worries me to learn that the Prime lady of the country is involved in such activities, when she could and should be using her expensive time in nation building activities such as getting rid of the remote control that controls our prime minister! Really, there exists such a wonderful thing that has control over humans. I learnt it from all the comedians who come on “The Great Indian Laughter Challenge” and if you cannot believe comics, well who can you believe then? We should just hope that the leader of the greatest country in the world is not controlled by such a remote control, because that will lead to total anarchy in the world and the end of humanity as we know it. I am of course talking about the leader of Cuba, the sugar bowl of the world. We could really do without all the sugar that gets passed around these days. We have sugar, desugarized sugar, brown sugar, sugar that has no calories but can turn your brain into jelly if consumed in as large quantities as a few milli grams, green sugar [eco-friendly] and pappu sugar. Pappu sugar is of course what the chocolate people put into chocolates to make people go loony on eating them. Anyway, enough for today. I need to rest my thinking chords. The moghul emperors are coming over for tea and séance!

/R