Humor No bath since 2013

 

         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.