Often man takes a vow that so and so work he will
do only after so and so work (another) is successfully done. A neta ji has
confided that during 2013 Kumbh P. M. of one country refused to take a holy dip
and returned without the ceremonial bath because of sheer muck in the
Ganges.
Basically, our Netaji disclosed this only to
highlight that Ganga of 2025 i.e. of his times is different than the Ganga of
2013. In other words, lot of water has flown since then. Though the saying is a
mother never changes and people in India consider Ganga as mother. Things are
comparative in our world. May be Ganga of 2025 is cleaner than the Ganga of
2013. Now who can endorse it, only those devotees who bathed in the Kumbh of
2013 and again in Maha-kumbh of 2025.
My
worry is different. The P. M. of this foreign country who visited India in 2013
for holy bath, did he take bath ever after or seeing the garbage in Ganga, he
developed a kind of dislike towards bathing. Who knows maybe he has developed a
kind of phobia towards bathing. I looked in Thesaurus to find out what
technical term these Psychiatry guys have given to persons who hate or fear
bathing. They have not disappointed me; they too have dwelled upon it and must
have made a ‘clean buck’ in their practice. They call it Ablutophobia. It is
past several years now, please find out whether he returned to take a holy dip
in 2025? more important than that whether he is still a P.M. in his country in
2025. Funny thing is, if Ganga is clean the credit goes to ‘we the people’ and
in case, it is dirty and polluted without redemption then also it is all thanks
to us. Ever since, I could read and
write I have read this news item- Govt is seriously concerned about the rising
pollution in Ganga. Successive Govts became serious to more serious and then
most serious. The grant in this respect multiplied manifold but Ganga remained
most polluted and favorite subject of panel discussions across the mainstream
media. Different type of bodies,
public-private sector companies are formed and forgotten, they make clean sweep
of funds allocated to them. There have
been Ministers and peons Govt after Govt assigned to clean the Ganga but only the
guys working in such ministry got to become clean, cleaner and cleanest.
Neta
after neta have risen in the Govt hierarchy in the name of Ganga cleaning.
Ganga remains where it was and over a period of time has become more polluted.
Ganga has inspired scores of films and songs. Ganga’s prime task entrusted by
Indian devotees is to wash their sins and bless them to commit more and more
sins without getting caught. It was in this light, prisoners were also
facilitated to take a holy dip. Ganga water was transported to their prison
where they took a mass holy dip. The jailor got the whole thing filmed so that
he could use it as annexure to his APAR. Numberless people are waiting to be
adopted by the Mother Ganga so that they too become someone and come to take
holy dip of ganga with a Z+security convoy. No wonder the procedure of adoption
is so complicated in India, to say the least. A lot has been written
on rivers of India. Scholars have written dissertation after dissertation to
obtain their PhD on rivers and seas. Time has come to write thesis on Ganga,
how it has helped netas to fulfill ‘My ambition in life’. If a P. M. does not
want to take bath, who can make him take a bath. In my childhood, I too used to
hate bathing. I will go to bathroom and just turn the tap. With some water
sprinkled on my face I would come out drying my body with the towel. I feel
this P. M. who came from some foreign country, what did he tell to his countrymen,
has he taken the holy dip? For the holy dip should not only be taken it should
appear to have been taken (by way of numerous photographs taken from most
appropriate angles n splashed in next day’s news) Truly speaking, my question
is far more important; whether he has at all taken bath since 2013.
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