I was back to walking track after
couple of days of break due to rains and travel.
Yesterday when I came back from
office, my son was eagerly waiting for me. As soon as I stepped in, my 6-years
old son came running with ‘breaking news’. “Teacher made me class monitor” then
he proudly showed me the badge given by school. We performed a little jig. My
teenage daughter watched with half-amusement and half embarrassment. “How long
are you going to be the monitor?” she asked. My son simply ignored the question
– just like me, he does not believe in petty details when it comes to
celebrations.
“We need to celebrate”, I told my son. “Yes,
lets go to Goa”. I know going to Goa, almost 500 km away, to celebrate for this
occasion was going little overboard. But my son has inherited my genes of
disproportionate celebration for any happy occasion. We generally wafted in the
cloud of happiness for some time.
Once sanity prevailed, my wife
took over. She decided to drive home her point. “Chinmay, now that you are a
class monitor you have to be in your best behavior and your class-work should
be neat and tidy”. I could see the little on was now lost in his thoughts and
suddenly he was not sure if being monitor is such a good thing after all! My
wife and I did our best not to laugh.
With Assembly elections in the
air, I couldn’t think of comparing our little scene with what happens at a much
higher level with higher stakes. It is quite common to see the politicians in
full force while they are in opposition – they speak with gay abandon with
little concern for anything. If and when the tables turn, this bunch comes into
power. Once the celebrations and initial euphoria is over, reality dawns – They
are now accountable for something, they no longer have the liberty to point
fingers at power for anything that goes wrong! With power come responsibility!
Sometimes I just wonder whether
they secretly yearn to get back to opposition benches! You can never
underestimate the joy of lack of accountability!!
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