[The following was a comment on one of Dr. Manmohan Singh's facebook posts, by a certain Ravi Shankar]
Fashionable Topics of the Intellectuals
Fashionable topics the all-knowing intellectuals discuss.. over whiskey and rum and kababs.. air conditioned five-star ambience.. and Abh to raat aur baaki hain..
1) Sustainable development
2) Global warming
3) Poverty eradication
4) Price rise
5) Environmental degradation
6) Save the forests
7) Climate change
8) Energy crisis
9) Renewable energy
10) Education for all
11) Save the tiger
12) Water issues
Collective decision taken.
Soon 12 committees will be formed, all the members will be in all the committees.
Fact-finding committees will visit Shanghai, Bangkok, Phuket, Honolulu, Bali, Los Angeles, New York and Florida.
You know what some of these places are famous for.
If their sons or daughters are studying in Timbaktoo, or if they have their girlfriends there; They would visit that place as well.
Young graduates will be hired at meagre salaries to do `indepth' study on these subjects. They will be given 24 hour access to internet so that they can create `well-researched' reports using the time-tested process known as `copy-paste'.
Best photographers will be commissioned to take `tell-all' pictures of impoverished children suffering from malnutrition, students studying under kerosene lamps, women baking roties on a smoke-emitting chulha to romanticize poverty.
Top printing houses will be contracted to print glossy reports.
Reports will be discussed by `civil society' in seminars at all those places where IPL matches are held.
Venue: the best five-star hotels of the city.
Seminars will helpfully conclude by 4 pm so that they can meet Lalit Modi before watching the matches.
Media - both TV and print - will be in attendance to lap every single sound byte of the experts who are about to create a `new India'.
God, please come down to India soon..
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