He continued doing, what he liked doing
Without any let or hindrance,
Fully energized by praise and flattery.
There was nothing strange or mystery in it.
Being a combustible stuff of criminality
Stupidity and venality, he generated a
Commodity called ‘fright’
Professionally weak and inherently weakly
Constituted minds fell prey to fright
Unable and unwilling to fight or take flight.
A ready ‘sellers market’ was ensured
To accelerate the production of ‘fright’.
The reasonably honest, brave practicing
Work ethics and filled with pride
Shunned this commodity as ‘giffen good’
And just concentrated on their work.
To ease the work pressure
An insider told an interesting story
To generate Lincoln’s spirit of humour:
The hero in question was not
Taller in stature, not much shorter in temper.
But a very brave man fighting against
All injustice against all Vice-Chairman’s
With proof, logic and more important
Speaking softly, but arguing aggressively.
As usual, on one fine evening he
Confronted his Head with a representation.
Getting annoyed, the Vice-Chairman warned him
Menacingly: Mr. Sundaralingam
You are going too far; when white collared
Workers are keeping quiet like obedient dogs
You are the one always causing problem.
Don’t you know that I am not answerable?
To anyone here, not even the Head of the State here,
Why can’t you understand me?
I know, all your representations and
Good intentioned petitions, but I have been
Trapped by fate, by my own advisors.
If I act on your demands
I cannot survive here as head
I am an aged man, with blood pressure
Heart problem and stones in kidney
I don’t know which organ will organize non-cooperation movement
Tomorrow, Tobin’s tomorrow’s tomorrow
Kindly help me to help you
You deserve to be our law officer
Our man here, lacked your courage and conviction
And just fed my ego to
Retain his chair, lest I would
Shift him to a lesser portfolio.
Kindly give me time to process your
Representations and really take decisions.
The court had passed judgment;
“The Vice Chairman has no discretion
To molest the composition of governing bodies
According to his whims and fancies
Adopting ‘races for houses’ strategy
He must reconstitute going by statues and rules”
The Vice Chairman was at an important international seminar
Talking about quality assurance
Character building, transparency in administration
And accountability
His cell phone rang and conveyed the
Bombshell he took the first flight
And reached office, convened meeting of
Advisors and legal officers
Like Corus dancers in a story less film
They all sang “we shall go for appeal”
Nothing will prevent us to loot tax payer’s money
There is no “tamizhan” to question us
And take us to consumer’s courts
We will always do what all you want us to do.
Our lawyers are incredibly happy to help us and
Show some escape route
You just need to instruct our Accounts Officer
The rest will be taken care of by us
We will prolong the case until your tenure ends”
(From my Dateless Diary: A Silent Soliloquy)
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