(Gandhi, Nehru and Patel are seen in Bhopal streets. They are singing Ramdhun. They slowly walk around and see people suffering. The area is very backward. People are very poor and most of them are suffering from some strange diseases.)
Gandhi. Patel. What is wrong here. India got independence in 1947 and 63 years ago. Things are very pathetic. What could have gone wrong?
Patel. Bapu. Nothing went well all these years. Heee..Heeee(laughs loudly)
Nehru. What is there to laugh Patel. Is it the matter to laugh off. I am very unhappy with you.
Patel. Dear. You can be. When you were happy with me? First you were scared that I could become PM and you had no sleep for days together.
Gandhi. Patel. Why speak all these things now?
Patel. I only laughed because Bapu had great expectations from Indians. They were just opportunists,. Only rulers changed. Rest is same. Earlier Europeans swindled the nation. Now our own men in the form of leaders, ministers are swindling everything. Europeans were better. Bapu. You know that Robert Clive who established English rule in India had to face trial in England and finally he committed suicide. You know the case of Warren Hastings. They did not spare their own men. There have been so many scams, goofing ups by our leaders including the top men. Remember Bofor scam. Has any one been punished. What happened to Mundra affair that was exposed by Son in law of Jawaharlal? Has any one been put in prison? None Bapu. When leaders are involved, at best they resign and get scot free. That is the justice in India.
Gandhi. True. This is bad. Jawaharlal. you were PM for many years. You goofed up Kashmir and Chinese policy and your policy resulted in war with them and they thoroughly bashed us and took away so much of land. I am sure you will never get it back.In any other country things would have been different. But you still remained hero although proved to be zero .
Nehru. Bapu. This is a bit too much.
Patel. Bapu. Now we are in Bhopal. You remember Bhopal tragedy, I am sure you will.
Gandhi. surely. Nearly 15000 people perished in the gas leak.
Patel. The joke is that it took decades of trial and then what is the outcome? Do you know?
Gandhi. It is like digging a mountain and catching a Rat.
Patel. Hee..Hee ( does jig and sings)
Bapu. Look oh Bapu
The culprit guys got away
The court has treated it like a road mishap
People are made to eat cow dung and hay
Gandhi. . Heee…heee. Very well sung Patel. I am proud of you.
Patel. Bapu. Some thing more ( Again sings and does fast jig)
The guy Anderson escaped
Now it is said he was allowed to
Bhopal victims died on streets
While Anderson celebrates shouting hee and ho
( Gandhi gets into mood and gets up and joins Patel doing jig. Both hold hands and do jig while Nehru looks other way)
Gandhi. look . Jawaharlal. Are you not happy? Probably you are un happy that Rajiv’s name was dragged by PC Alexander then principal secretary.
Nehru. What can I say? Rajiv is not alive now to defend himself. Why PC Alexander kept his mouth shut all these days?
Patel. It is up to him. I am sure big guns are involved in allowing Anderson to escape from India.
Gandhi. There is great up roar in India about the degree of punishment given to some offenders, It is just two years jail. The court has treated the tragedy like car accident. They say how Anderson could be accountable?
Patel. What these guys want? Do they want Anderson to be hung to a scaffold.? Cheee…chee.
Gandhi. Entire thing has bee mucked up so well.
Patel. Bapu. Do you think Indians can influence US to hand over Anderson.? Could they get American citizen terrorist Hadley for Bombay attack? They could not do any thing to Pakistan after 26/11 except shouting around and crying over mikes and shedding tears by PM looking blankly into papers. They can not do anything. Our country is shit scared of USA. We can not dare to antagonize USA .Literally we are their slaves.
Gandhi.Very bad. Then what we should do?
Patel. Better lump it down the throats.
Gandhi. We can surely do some thing.
Nehru. Bapu. What is that, say fast?
Gandhi. We can sing Ramdhun in chorus. It is the last resort to Indians.
Patel.It is nice Bapu. Mere Bapu.
Nehru. Sure Bapu. We are at your mercy.
(Gandhi looks other way. The trio sings Ramdhun.... Raghupathi raaghava Raja raam... Patheetha pawana seetha raam. eeee...eee... Bolo... and walk away slowly in to distance)
