Kejriwal and Karna

Now-a-days everyone is talking about Mahabharat, be it the animation movie where big stars have landed their voice or the Television Series or the current political scenario in India. 

So I thought I should write something about it. You might have already flooded with various comparisons of today’s political set-up with mythological stories, but I can not stop myself.You may not be a fan of mythological writings or the stories, but you must have heard the name Karna or Karan.

Karna, a Mythological character from Mahabharata, is a well praised character, a great warrior, large hearted, hard worker, generous, and above all a fighter and self made leader. Any positive adjective I use here will be less for him and all this written in the classic book.  Having all said about Karna, he is not considered by people as a deity or someone who can be kept in the good books.

He was a son of the god Sun by kunti, but brought up by a charioteer and was always called a saarthi – putra or Soot-putra. According to the “Varna-vyavastha” he could not be a disciple of Gurus like Dronacharya and Parashurama, he could not get learning and teaching of astras(Weapons) and shaastra(Rules of life).

 He hated the system and rebelled against it. Karna became pupil of Guru Parashurama on a false note that he is a Brahmin. And as people say that a lie has no feet, so karna couldn’t go long with that lie and became victim of curse from his contemporary Guru Parshuram.Karna was good at heart, his intentions were good and he was skilled but just because he did not belong to a particular Varna(Caste), he could not hone his skills with the dignity as Khatriyas and Brahmins could afford.  He nourished a kind of hatred in his heart for this system and wanted to change it, and wanted to get the power, wanted to become a king.To douse his burning desires, to get the Kingdome, to fulfill his long term aspirations he joined hands with Kouravas (the 100 bad brothers or better the main villains of Mahabharat).

Finally in the climax his life was ended like a villain and not like a hero. He was killed by Arjuna.

He had to suffer a lot because of his 2 big mistakes, first, to betray a Guru like Parashuram and second, joining hands with most lawless, corrupt and hypocrite people like Kauravas.

The title of this article is Kejriwal and Karna, and I have written all about Karna, you might be thinking that when I would introduce our today’s hero Kejriwal? So my dear readers, that’s all, now I don’t need to write anything about Kejriwal. At the end of this article I will rename Kejriwal as today’s Karna who joined hands with today’s Kauravas.Rest you think, and relate the populist with the Karna's Story.

Note: All AAP and AK lovers, please excuse!

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An open letter to Anna Hajare Team and AAP Members

Dear Anna,

I hope you are still thinking about betterment for India.

The movement you started 2 years back was nothing less than a historical phenomena in Indian democracy. You compelled Indian youth to come on roads, you ignited a new flame in our hearts, you showed that we can also be revolutionary youth. You just gave us a hope that we can fulfill our dream of doing something for nation by supporting you.

But all of sudden the very accused government ditched you and you surrendered. You just believed them as we did by voting them, and they did the same to you what they did to our nation, they cheated. The very sharp movement became blunt; you disappeared and kept a silence fast. Meanwhile all the flames were extinguished, all hopes of Indian Youth shattered and most worst happened was our belief on you deviated, your team was divided, aim was alienated. Government played their cards and we along with you felt a shocking defeat.

Now once again when you are trying to ignite the same fire with the same fuel it is not even heating, why because the fuel has expired.

Dear Arvind Kejriwal,

Congratulations on your decision of entering into the system and fighting to clean it.

You parted from Anna’s movement, because you understood that if system has to be cleaned you have to make your hands dirty. You can not stand in a corner and clean the muddiness. We appreciate your initial acts of disclosing misdeeds of big corporate houses, but again it was only a breaking news for us, we just watch news channel to see if something big has been revealed by you, we don’t bother to join your party because we have our own commitments, we have job, a family to look after and a small ambition for our future. You may say that we are selfish, yes we are, and you may say that we don’t want to do something for our nation, yes you can say, but truth is that now we don’t believe in Anna’s movement, same as most of us don’t believe in your success.

Now let me clear why we don’t believe in success of both of you in spite of having a pure ambition, a true heart and a determination to do best for nation, because you are fighting with demons and not common people and you are fighting without arms.

You are saying that all political parties are bad, none is honest, that is correct and we agree to your sentiments, but remember even when god had to eliminate the evil soul from earth, he had to acquire human nature, he had to follow the way devils were following, just to kill him, and this is written in all our mythological books (I said all, inclusive of all religion). Same if you want to eliminate one devil then you have to take help of another, first remove one with the help of other and then remove the evil spirit from the one who helped you. Don’t fight alone.

I hope you understood my signal.