INTO THE PAST WITH
PAIN….114

 

                                                        
DR K Prabhakar Rao

 

 

( Gandhi, Nehru,
Indira and Rajiv are seen walking on the Delhi
streets. They are fuming and  fretting. 
)

 

 Gandhi. 
Jawaharlal. What a sad state of affairs today!. The present leaders are
ditching our principles. I heard    now a day the leaders do not contest from
their constituencies. They seek some safe constituencies where party is strong.

 

Nehru. Very true
Bapu. What you said is correct.  In their
original places they will loose deposit. 
Look Bapu, Narsimha Rao hails from Manthni in Karimnagar area of Andhra
Pradesh. He was sure to loose from that place. So his election was arranged at
Nandyal and winning was  ensured.  People talk   all
types of shitty things.

 

Gandhi.  This is the
latest trick for the political leaders. Hee.hee..haa ( sings)

 

The leaders who can
not win at their places

Contest from a safer
one

Their winning is
sure to take place

Morals are in shit
pot all said and done

 

Rajiv. Very well
sung Bapu.  You are greater than Wordsworth
in poetry. I do not know how you missed Nobel prize for  Poetry.

 

Gandhi. Why not.? I
am Bapu. The great one.  Don’t you know I
am a writer, orator, leader, freedom fighter, yoga master, researcher, great scholar,
critic,  and now poet too.

 

Nehru. Hear. Hear
(Claps ) 

 

Indira. May I say
some thing?

 

Gandhi. Not required.
You started the drama of contesting from other places. You contested from Medak
in AP state. Where was the necessity? You hail from UP. In what way you are
concerned abut Medak. These are all tricks and parliamentary cheating tricks.

 

(After some he looks
at Nehru )

 

Gandhi. Jawaharlal.
I want to see Ram janma bhoomi. I am hearing much about it. This is my Ram’s
place. Let us go there.

 

Nehru. Sure Bapu.
But Bapu. I heard there is nothing there. All rubble and stones around are
found there now.

 

Gandhi. Does not
matter. Whole country is in rubble. Let us go.

 

( All of them  sing Ram dhun and vanish in Delhi and land in Faizabad)

 

( They are all
ghosts and  could easily land near the
lane leading to Ram janma Bhoomi. There is 
a barrier at that place and are stopped by security personnel)

 

Constable. Stop.
Where are you going?  You are very late.  We shall open the gate at  2pm

 

Gandhi. My son! We have
come   from a far off place. Please allow
us. We are pilgrims and not karsewaks.

 

Constable. Please listen
to me.  You can not go. What you are
thinking about us? Are we here to keep looking at you when you guys break
rules. Take care. I shall give blow on your head with this lathi and you will
forget Ram for all the time.

 

Gandhi. Are you not
a Hindu? Why do you want to beat me? I have been beaten by police men that too
English police men. I am Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Father of nation
too. What do you think of me?

 

Constable. Nothing
doing. Go back.

 

Gandhi. Baba. Why do
you want to be so rigid. What is  there
to loose.

 

Indira. What is
there to loose and  all has already been
broken

 

Gandhi. What is
this?  In our own country can’t I see my Ram..
Shame indeed.( Looks at sky).Hey Ram. Look what is happening here? In your
birth place, I can not see you. I am being stopped by a constable.  Can’t you show your power?

 

Indira. Bapu. This
is Kaliyuga.  In this Yuga all cheats and
worthless guys would flourish. Good people have no chance. Goondas will have
nice time. Crooks will rule at al places. Dubious men will get elected to
various houses. Money power has no parallel. All shit indeed.

 

Gandhi. Baby Indira
, these good words do not appeal from you atleast.

 

Rajiv. May I say
some thing?

 

Gandhi. Not required.
(Holds head ) Ohfo. These guys have ruined my country. What was my India and what
is now? When India
was partitioned Babri Maszid issue was not important.  Many people even did not hear about it. These
nuts have politicized the issue for self gains. 
(Takes a stone and hammers his head) Kill me.. Kill me ,  I want to die instead of listening all these
things.

 

Rajiv ( Holds hand of
Gandhi) Bapu. Relax. You can not die as you are already dead.  True bapu. Communal passions have been built
up for vote banks and political gains.

 

Gandhi. I gave my life
for communal  harmony in  India.

 

Indira. Sorry Bapu.
You did not give life. All very well know that your life was taken by Nathuram
Vinayak  Godse.

 

Gandhi. Let them
think ( sings)

 

 Raghupathi Raaghava Raaja Raam .. aaain

 

Pateetha pawana
seetha Ram aain.. Bolo.

 

( In the meantime,
LK Advani and Bajpai and Ashok Singhal arrive to see Ram. They look lost when
they see Gandhi and others, they bow to Gandhi and pay respects. To others they
say just hoi and  hello)

 

Advani.  Bapu. How come you are here? Are you seeing
the fate of Ram lala. In our country he has no place. You are aware of all
these things. Baber demolished Ram temple that was here and built the Maszid.
He killed many for constructing this mosque.

 

Bajpai. Bapu. Mir
Baki was the general of Baber. He got the demolition done and built the mosque.

 

Singhal. The insult
to our culture has to be undone.

 

 Gandhi. Look my sons. What will we achieve by
demolishing the old mosque except hatred? We can always build a temple close by
and still be happy. After all God is there every where. Look, so many have been
killed. Karsewaks  were shot like cats. What
is the gain? Just a temple! I am very un happy. You should have displayed
better vision than narrow gains.

 

Advani. Bapu. This is
some thing I did not expect from you. You are Ram Bhakta. And Ram pujari.

 

(In the distance
great actor singer Surendra is heard singing a duet.)

 

bibbo:
pujaarii, more mandir me.n aao
nai.nno.n kii ga~Ngaa jamunaa me.n, saajan aa_o nahaa_o

surendra:
prem dev kii karo aaratii, sneh sudhaa barasaa_o
dil ke taaro.n par sajanii tum diipak raag sunaa_o
dono.n: pujaarii, more mandir me.n aao
surendra: pujaarii, more mandir me.n aao

bibbo:
bachapan ruuTh gayo kyuu.N mose, ko_ii ye batalaa_o
joban ruuTh na jaaye baalam, aisii raah bataa_o
dono.n: pujaarii, more mandir me.n aao
bibbo: pujaarii, more mandir me.n aao

surendra:
chandragrahan hai, chandramukhii tum aa_o yahaa.N chhup jaa_o
ruup-sudhaa kii mast pyaalii pii_o aur pilaa_o
dono.n: pujaarii, more mandir me.n aao
dono.n: pujaarii, more mandir me.n aao..( From  film Jagirdar. 1937)

 

(Gandhi  takes a long breath after listening the song)

 

Gandhi. But first I
am a humanist. I can not see humans suffering. See the country is divided on
communal lines. I heard some one from south was demanding another Pakistan some
time ago. Govt had no guts to try that guy for treason. he got away.

 

Advani. He is a
crack pot. Such guys are also there. They are mad persons..

 

Bajpai. Do you think
we will allow it to happen again? Kya tamasha hai kya  ( Is this adram).They have to do it over our
dead bodies.

 

Gandhi. I am happy for
your sentiments and patriotism. I wish all were like you.. I am getting worked
up by seeing police men around. Kya ( What), 
these guys have no other work?

 

Bajpai.  This  is
their work.

 

Advani. Bapu. police
must have some work. Otherwise  how they
will expand their empire? How many forces are there under ministry of Home affairs?
These are CRPF, ITBF, BSF, Assam rifles, 
GRP, Black cats, Grey hounds, 
Rapid action force, leave army, air force, navy apart from various state
police forces and state armed reserves( SAP)

 

Singhal. Yet there
is no security for a common man. There is no security to the nation.  Terrorists can strike at any time any place.

 

Bajpai. See the
leaders of ruling party. They fear to go to their own people. They are heavily
escorted. They also use bullet proof cars and, jackets. A district Collector
moves only with police escort. He is shot scared.What a shame!

 

Gandhi. What a shame
indeed! Somehow we have side tracked the issues. We were at Babri Maszid..

 

Bajpai. Bapu. Please
do not call it a Maszid. Call it a structure.

 

Gandhi, Oh , yes.
Structure. Both are different.  Where no
prayers are held, it is not a Maszid.

 

Gandhi. Do you think
you can build Ram temple here? Do you think Muslims would allow.

 

Singhal. What they
will do?

 

Gandhi. Things would
be bad. I personally feel that all of you must live like brothers and not fight
for silly things.  Our country needs
better development works than temples and mosques. (Sings)

 

Raghupathi Raaghava
Raja ram.. aai…aai

Pateetha Pawana
seetha Ram.. Bolo..

 

(In the mean time
the barricade is lifted and visitors are allowed to enter   a narrow passage leading to a  cage like structure.)

 

Gandhi.   eee…eeee.. Advaniji, What is this? Are we
some wild animals that we are put in some type of cage?

 

Bajpai. I think
police men consider every one as dangerous person except themselves

 

Singhal. Hee..heee A
nice joke sir.

 

Bajpai. It is not a
joke, A fact indeed.

 

Gandhi. Funny guys
indeed. These guys could not do anything when the structure was razed to
rubble. What we can do here? Do they think we are of some danger?

 

Singhal . Only god
knows.

 

CONTINUED

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