The Mumbai Tiger’s kittens – miaow

Well, well, well it has ultimately happened – the cubs have ultimately proven themselves to be kittens that too spoilt ones at that! Rahul Gandhi by one swift stroke proved to the rest of us (me too) that he has the makings of a statesman. Traveling by train while all the rabble rousers with black flags were waiting at the airport was undoubtedly a stroke of genius – connecting with the masses and showing the kittens the way forward for inclusive politics.

The demonstrators’ black flags will have to be shelved for a later day – so sad na, tch tch tch! Both the kittens are claiming that what he did is high drama – well agreed – but that is drama with class for the mass population! The kittens are left chewing sour grapes, slurp, slurp, slurp, burp, burp, burp! The burps I am sure are leaving a foul taste in the mouths of the kittens – like the saying goes “the best laid plans of mice and kittens go to waste”.

Coming to the moot question which now dwells in the minds of the kittens – “the Marathi manoos” (by the way I am one too) – “Mumbai is for Marathis”. To them I ask how many Marathis do you find driving taxis, autos, on construction sites, road building, etc. If you find one, you will be very lucky. The entire cities infrastructure has been built more or less with the blood and sweat of labor mainly from Bihar, UP, TN and Kerala. That is because the Marathi manoos finds these jobs below his dignity – he would prefer an armchair 9 to 5 job with lots of perks and no work preferably. The average Marathi manoos is lazy and does not like to work – that is why it is easy to rabble rouse and get them on the streets to vandalise and loot private and public property. Who is stopping the Marathi manoos from doing hard work on construction sites, road building etc – no one – but he would prefer to go hungry rather than do jobs which would affect his inflated ego.

The kittens have grown fat and rich – how? Have they ever had a job or a business, did their father have one from which they have inherited such wealth? Have the revenue authorities ever asked these questions? Well it is now a given that they have crores in wealth, drive vehicles costing upward of Rs. 50 lacs (try earning and then saving that kind of money honestly, you’ll know what I mean!). They dabble in real estate – with the kind of wealth they have looted/amassed they can very well employ the Marathi manoos or form a company employing only Marathis which could contribute to the national economy. Will they do something like that – naaaaaaa – you know why? Talk is cheap, that’s why! Doing requires effort, planning etc. Now who wants to work! Miaaow, I am used to being a spoilt cat! I would love to roar, but the only sound which emanates when I make the effort is a whiny miaow!!

It is time for the kittens to grow up and try and join the national mainstream with constructive politics rather than divisive, parochial politics, lest they find themselves thrown into the political wilderness with complete rejection by the masses!