THE DEMOCRACY.. 'ON PAPER' AND 'IN PRACTICE!'

The grey haired middle class senior citizen smiled and said about the democratic ruling he lived thru' all those years..

“No doubt, I was guaranteed many services and freedoms in my life..

The services sanctioned on paper and talked in air of course were soon implemented with a bang taking immediate credits for bringing them out but subsequently

• Some services never functioned even a single day,
• Some started functioning but soon were solely the privilege of few rich and
• Some were exclusively for the less privileged for securing which they were seen struggling day and night endlessly!

Only a few alone were available for people like me but there too, I had readily kept stand-by units with me in good working condition as the original services had an in-built mechanism of failing often!

 

In respect of the precious freedoms guaranteed to me, even though many were granted on paper, some freedoms alone are there with me till date because I indirectly agreed..

• To make my own efforts to get an equal number of them as they were restricted for reasons unknown,
• To pay a price to secure sizable numbers and
• To firm up within myself that a countable numbers were never for me throughout my life whatever attempts I may make!

In respect of 1 or 2, I had no courage to look at them even once in the entire period of my life!

One of our members in great spirits when resorted to the constructive criticism of the ruler that is freely allowed in a democratic system was, all of sudden given a warning and equally lured thru' an offer saying..

'Be careful; you are being watched.. Take these monies and keep off!' 

Taken a back and without falling prey to their monies, when our member modified the criticism to a lesser hurting level aiming at the junior levels, he was again threatened thru' a message..

'You seem not listening.. You regret later.. Soften on your stand immediately!'

Sensing the danger as the member friend modified his talk switching over to the praise of the juniors, he no doubt got an applause but with a tail piece..

'Good! Now take these monies, praise our man as we say, and close the issue!'

Listening fully to that minus the monies, our friend successfully concluded his constructive criticism freely allowed in our democratic ruling!"

The Post is written in line with this week's IndiSpire Prompt No 402..

Keyword: democracy