MANDLA FORT. PAINTING BY DR K PRABHAKAR RAO

GARH MANDLA.. MADHYA PRADESH

                                         NATION OF NUTS BY THE NUTS

                                                  AND FOR. THE NUTS

                                          Col DR Kuntamukkala Prabhakar Rao Retd

                              Indira gandhis slogan was GaribI Hatao but she failed to accomplish. So she switched Over to ameeri hatao. She abolished privy purses of former prices and kings in India. After independence ,govt slogans were Merit hatao at all costs..The nation Promoted duds and nuts In all walks of life and in govt organizations and we have achieved it and going strong. Reservations that were to go in 10 years have become permanent in India. Second rate or even third rare stuff are promoted in all walks of life in all cadres, all services except defense services. Defence services are not attracting talented persons as material of quality are opting for foreign jobs, foreign studies and in IT industry, IAS, IPS and Other central services and state services. Some of the  engineering students discontinued studies and joined police as constables while some join as attenders in Postal dept. They prefer it as it was a govt job. Left out useless stuff  compete at SSB and services have to draw for them. As it is. Services do not need. Highly intelligent people as they could be misfit. They need just  average guys who can fit in. Thus defense services too are down graded in quality and thanks to the govt policies of down grading the uniformed defense services. Thus, Entire nation is a pack of useless nuts in all walks of life particularly in govt services and politics. Industry recruit only quality material. India as a nation thus has come to stay a third rate stuff although we claim very high and effective in administration In state and centre , govt offices, schools, colleges, universities, govt industries, corporations and of course politics where reservations are effective at all levels.

ONLY VISITING TEMPLES DO NOT PLEASE THE GOD

                              ONLY VISITING TEMPLES DO NOT PLEASE THE GOD

                                           Col Kuntamukkala Prabhakar Rao

                                    Running around temples and conducting rituals do not bring changes or make gods happy while the inner souls are corrupt and crooked. In politics a simple and honest person can not survive.They have to be crooked and know the art of survival. Or one will be left out. You can see the leaders of one party Jumping into TRS without any shame before and after elections. How gods will be pleased with such characters who do not possess any loyalties and virtues like honesty, truthfulness , integrity and simplicity. people get what they deserve. People vote based on Caste creed, language, religion etc , sex and in turn we get fraudulent people on top.In Every election process , this is repeated. I am aware of a big ritual that was conducted to bring rains by appeasing gods so that a big reservoir that is at a distance of 30 km from Hyderabad on Nagarjun sagar road could be filled. the lake was already dry as there were no rains. Some top leaders of political parties participated in the ritual and there was heavy lunch too for all the people. hundreds of people were brought to the ritual by leaders in buses and trucks.The result was a big zero. There were no rains and even after four years ,the tank remains dry. How gods will be pleased ?. the persons who conducted the rituals and arranged everything had no integrity. They were mere opportunists and they were there because they were crazy of power and craved for some quick buck. In fact , catchment Areas Of lakes have bee n badly destroyed by land occupation, construction, quarrying, digging for earth and sand and blocking the small streams by constructing illegal buildings. All such streams of the tank were blocked as I know. There is no single drop of water in that lake even today. the same lake I saw in 1965. It was full of water water touching the near by town, at that time a village and was looking like a sea.One could fetch water from the tank by going two or three feet down the bund. Unless integrity is there , state can not grow and poor will become poorer while thieves , crooks, cheats and thugs will become billionaires within no time while honest guys will be suffering for a piece of bread in this land.

INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN...323

                                                      INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN..323

                                                        DR K Prabhakar rao

Gandhi, Nehru and patel  are seen sitting  at a park  at lower tank bund in Hyderabad.. Weather is cool and light breeze is seen blowing

Gandhi. Patel  climate   has changed in Hyderabad. Otherwise it was so much oppressing.

Patel. Bapu People are also much oppressed here in Hyderabad.

Gandhi. What is that?. What do you mean by that?

Patel. Bapu, the city was a bit tense with police patrolling Osmania University area. There was  too much of vehicle checking

Gandhi. Why the fear?

Patel. Bapu, The students  belonging  to a section from Osmania university  decided to conduct a fest of beef which  every year they conduct

Gandhi. Why this university is always in news?  During Telangana agitation the students of this University created  great law and order problems. There was no  academic environment.It earned very bad name in 1968 and its degrees were not recognized.  

Patel. Yes This university is famous for that. Guys hardly study. The university is managing  by virtue of past name.

Gandhi. Is it so bad?

Patel. Yeah Bapu. All troubles start from here only. There has been  big controversy on Beef eating. You know in north  India, a guy was beaten to death because he ate beef. It was a big news. It became a communal problem . Some how  the situation was controlled. Here in Hyderabad  the BJP guys have taken up the  cause and said they would  prevent the beef fest at Osmania university while students were adamant.  The court also gave directive that  it should not be not held till further orders. Tension built up rapidly as students were bent on violating  court orders.

Gandhi. Then what happened?

Patel. Police has  deployed more than 1500police men at university and the concerned MLA of BJP was also not allowed to take a rally. The crisis was averted. But tensions are there. Police resorted to too much of  checking and innocents were harassed. Life has become oppressive

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Gandhi, I know that police guys need little  scope to trouble guys although they have to do  duty. But they also over react and become repressive.

Patel. Bapu in all countries police is used for repression of society. It is a govt tool for coercion, oppression and  state terrorism.

Gandhi. It will have its own repercussions. However in what way we are bothered.

Nehru. Why Bapu? Are you not bothered if people are suffering?

Gandhi. Yet it has not grown to that level. Any how the beef trouble is over for time being.

Patel. Partly. Hotels in  posh areas who serve beef are displaying that they are serving buffalo meat and  not cow meat or bullock meet.

Gandhi. In what way  meat differs  between a buffalo and   cow meat

Patel. I can not say as I never ate them.

Gandhi. Both are domestic  animals used widely in India

Patel. Cow is considered an holy animal. It is  loved by lord Krishna.

Gandhi. Is buffalo a  bad animal? Maximum guys drink buffalo milk. He Buffalo is the  vehicle for Lord yama.

Patel. Every animal is in fact a   mount for some god. There are thousands of gods and need variety of animals.

Gandhi. In fact all animals are good. We have goats, sheep,  pigs, that are reared, But our guys kill them in large numbers for eating.

Patel. Now  what is going to happen? In fact peole are divided on the issue of beef. Many are of the opinion that  people have the right to eat what they choose

Gnadhi. But they can not fellow humans . They can not be cannibals.

Patel. Bapu. This is too much

Gandhi.For muslims it is  a regular  diet. A section of Hindus  also devour beef regularly. But BJPguys want beef eating to be banned. They want ban on killing cows.

Patel. India is wasting time on such issues and such issues are causing disruption in progress

Gandhi.Patel, India declared peacock as national bird. One can not kill  and eat it.

Patel.  Does it mean  one can eat it alive?

Gandhi. No jokes please. We are discussing serious matter

Patel. Sorry babpu.

Gandhi. It is OK

Gandhi. Jawahar. You keep away from discussion. Why?

Nehru. There is nothing to discuss. Does our discussion make any impact on the issue. We are dead.

Gandhi. What is wrong in it?

Nehru.  These issues are raised by political parties  to create tension in society and they try to take advanatage for self glorification.

Gandhi. You are  true to some extent. Every society has certain norms. We created India as a secular country.

Patel. What goes on is false secularism. In the name of secularism Hindus are suppressed in India  by the govt.The govt has interfred in temple affairs  while they turn heads for mosques.  Minorities have started feeling that they have special status in India while majority community is the sucker.

Gandhi.Patel. You may not be correct.

Patel. I am hundred percent correct.Jawaharlal was practicing false secularism in fact. He was against  military action against Nizam of Hyderabad in 1948. The  nizam wanted to be independent creating  a third Pakistan.

Nehru. Patel. Your views are not accepted.

Patel. Your acceptanace has no meaning for me.

Gandhi Come on guys. You are getting personal.I have come to conclusion that India is  a mismanaged country fot for a foreign  rule as stated by W Churchill long ago.

Patel. True. Shall we go back to UK and request the queen to take over again.

Gandhi. I am sure they will run away after seeing us and hearing our proposal. Haaa..haa

( Gandhi throws hands in to air and bursts into laughter. He calms down and sings)

India  is now  of no interest to English men

Who are happy eating  meat and chicken

They are happy that we have many  vows

And sure to go back to era of arrows and bows

Patel. Yeah… well sung bapu.

Gandhi. Friends. It is getting dark. Let us go.This is not a safe place. Let us go

The trio walks away slowly

               CURTAIN FALLS 

INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN...322

                                                           INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN ….322

                                                                 Dr K Prabhakar Rao

 Gandhi, patel and Nehru  are seen sitting  on Tank bund on a long old model Cast Iron  sofa facing the lake… The water  appears to be fresh although  filthy smell is noticed.

Gandhi. This s lake must be very old.

Patel. Yes Bapu. This is vey old, built  during  the rule of kutub shahi kings of Golconda. It is surprising it has survived so long.

Gandhi, Where lake will go. People need it. So it has stayed. But I am sure  it is  not same today.

Patel. True Bapu.  Every where land prices have gone up very high and people  are craving for every inch of land.People are   migrating to cities from villages as agriculture has failed of late,

Bapu. True. There is no employment opportunity in villages. All industries are  at cities. So people migrate to cities.

Patel. How sad.  Our people  neglected your  vision of village industries in India.

Bapu. More over ,the society has been  badly corrupted. What we can do.

Patel. You wanted congress to be disbanded . But your most favourite Nehru did not listen. He wanted power at all costs.

Gandhi. Why say these things now? Did you not  take up deputy PM post ? Why

 you  have not stayed out of cabinet?

Patel. It was a mistake no doubt. But we were discussing about the lake.

Gandhi. Yeah.This lake survived because  during the rule of   past kings  and  sultans like Nizams, people could not play mischief. King  had  the absolute power. No one dared to occupy lands clandestinely or by  fraud. He would have been sent to gallows.

Patel. True Bapu. Some discipline was there although freedom was not there and it was an autocratic rule. But was better I am sure.

Gandhi. Say  in low tone. Some guys may listen and tell police.

Patel. Let them. What they can do? We are dead already. They can not get a rupee from us.

Gandhi. We have deviated from topic. Lake survival we were discussing.

Patel. Yes Bapu. After we got freedom , it has become free for all. All useless guys  have become leaders. Cheats, Thugs, criminals , goondas, Gangsters, land grabbers,  fake educationalists  and rapists are the leaders now and are wielding  power.

Gandhi. I learnt that only such guys get party  tickets.Haa..ha…

Patel. But you thought all will be good guys ruling this land. To day if you stand in elections  you will loose deposit. No party will give ticket to you. You can  bribe the party chief as you  have no money. Haa..haaa.

Gandhi. I never thought so. I  knew  there will be  trouble in the land. If wanted, I would have  become the top man.

Patel . Then you would have not become Mahatma. Bapu. We were discussing the lake.

Gandhi. Some how  my sixth sense  tells me that this lake will be swallowed  soon.

Patel. I also feel same. Already lot of lake land has been swallowed by slums,  and land grabbers who built  buildings .

Nehru. Patel. Do you know that there many lakes with in city limits and around.

Patel. Yes. I know.

Nehru. How many have been encroached up on.?

Patel . All most all lakes have been encroached up on.

Nehru. That means all governments were party to these illegal activities.

Gandhi. These are vote bank politics. Once  land is illegally occupied, local leaders emerge in vote bank politics. If you go around Hyderabad, all illegat colonies are getting legalized by paying money to municipal corporation.

Patel. That means thief  becomes a  kotwal  one day.

Gandhi. Haaa..haaa. Heee… heee

Patel. Ho..hoo..howww.

Nehru. What is there to laugh so big?

Patel. All reasons are there to laugh .  We  gave freedom thinking  that rama raj will emerge. 

But Ravan rajya has emerged. You guys know Indira Gandhi imposed emergency in the country as she wanted to continue as PM eternally.

Nehru. Why bring her into discussion?

Patel. Oh I forgot that she was your daughter. You are getting upset.

Gandhi. No one should get upset when facts are discussed.

 Nehru. Bapu. Now things are getting personal . I want to go away.

Patel. Please  do not  run. You are escapist

Gandhi. Patel, Please leave him.  Let us stop discussion as Nehru  is getting upset. 

Patel. Bapu, As usual, you have yielded to Nehru sahib  . Before we got freedom, you yielded to  him and we are in thick soup now.

Gandhi . No one can change destiny. If India has to become Islamic state one day, who can stop it? No one.

Patel. Bapu. You  have not changed even after so many years after your martyrdom.Just too bad.

Gandhi. Relax guys. Let us go..

( The trio  walks away slowly as the dirty smell of the lake  follows them )

MIGRATORY BIRDS. Painting by Dr K Prabhakar R ao

MIGRATORY BIRDS AT A LAKE IN HYDERABAD ON  SAGAR ROAD

POLICE ZULUM IN. INDIA...STATE REPRESSION

POLICE ZULUM IN INDIA