Are you a Saint or Super Politician?

Are you a saint or a super politician?

He was asked once by

A learned professor,

Who had also suffered like him

In the distant past.

Although they can’t be described

As close friends,

They are more than mere colleagues.

Especially the person who was

Asked this question,

Has an inexplicable admiration

For the scholarship of another gentleman

And his voracious reading

Habit and appetite,inclusive of writing style

Which anyone could envy rightly.

This intellectual warmth and

Collective suffering of the past

Have also kept them in good stead

Despite their ideological differences

And one unforgettable Tsunami,

Experienced unexpectedly like a bolt from the blue.

Going back to the question,

He replied :

‘Professor, you are thoroughly wrong

I am neither a saint nor a sinner

The truth is I am just human

In this dehumanized , globalized world

I want to be a better human

In doing a little to fellow human;

Fully aware of my brief stay here

Any act of little kindness,

Warmth and respect that I can show,

I want to do it now.

There is no politics built into it.

I have learnt from Kural:

Which you have always treated ,

As a matter of no consequence

By not attaching any importance at all.

Perhaps reinventing identity politics there too

And yet I will translate that Kural .

The best way to punish a

Wrong doer is, the saying of the Kural goes,

Is to do something good

In order that

He will feel ashamed of himself.

I know the gentleman in question

And many gentlemen whom we have to come across in life

That list will grow in the years to come,

Given the chaotic nature of the society

Will not have any sense of shame

And no moral fiber to cloth their physical frame.

That’s not my concern

If they don’t want

Any solution, its their problem

If they don’t want to be a part of the solution

And be a perpetual problem to others

Even then ,

Let me do something good as much as I can

Unmindful of suffering

Caused to me,

As I cannot change my nature

Derived from the parental genes.

But then, your statement

About super politician, I am sorry.

My good intentioned attitude, and

Good intentioned behavior and action

Must not seduce you,

Should not blind you to dream and

Conceive that kind of frame

Even in your wildest dream

For I wouldn’t appear even as a

First rate politician in your wildest dream.

Don’t say the days of

Thirukural are gone, once and for all .

Will pay in the short run

Or who knows, in the long run too,

In all places of Marketized environiment,

The poisonous air of destructive politics

Might undermine the

True economic activities.

But independent of that,

Rural India, Youth India,

And Women India will get empowered.

We shall pray for that day of freedom,

Real freedom for the Disadvantaged.

We shall not be alive

To see that favorable outcome.

Hardworking people will strive and work hard

For wages of their labor and sell their

Honestly stored energy.

We shall remain optimistic

And remember the slogan

From Wall Street Journal

“Politics will divide and Economics will unite”