INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN…126                                    Dr K Prabhakar Rao 

( Gandhi, Nehru and Patel are seen sitting in a park in  Hyderabad. Gandhi is worried as usual.)

 

Patel. Bapu. Is some thing worrying you? You are not as usual.

 

Gandhi.Yes.I am much worried on many aspects.

 

Nehru. Bapu. What is it Bapu? Please tell us. Your mental agony will reduce if you share your worries with us.

 

Gandhi. Sure dear ( sings)

 

I am a worried guy in this place

And I  do not have any solace

My brain is full of some or other problem

I get scared India’s album

 

Nuts are ruling there everywhere

In states, centre and at all places

It has become a crooks galore

Leaders  go around with their dirty faces

 

Patel. Very well said Bapu, Mere Bapu

 

Nehru. Hamare Bapu. That was a nice poem

 

Gandhi. Thanks dear, but this does not solve my problem.

 

Pate. Bapu, You have not spelled your latest problem.

 

( In the distance great singer actor Surendra is heard singing a sad song)

 

Teriyaad ka Deepak jalta hai

Duniya ke mere weeraane mein

Teri yaad ka Deepak jalta hai

Wo paagal pan jo pahle tha..aaa

Ab bhee hai mere veerane mein

Veerane mein

Teri yaaad ka Deepak jalta hai…

 

Takdeerko aisee aag lagi

Takdeer ko aisee aag lagi

Jal jalke kaleja khak hua..aaa

Hai shouk magar our abhee

Jalne ke tere parwaane mein

Teri yaad ka Deepak jalta hai……. ( from  film Gawaiah1954)

 

Gandhi ( Wipes tears hearing the pathetic song)

 

Patel.Bapu. Take it easy. Sadness is part of life. After dark hours light always comes Remember the song of great singer actor surendra ( sings).

 

Kahte hain harek…raat kaa.. aaa..

Kahte hai har  ek raat ka

Hota hai savera…aaa…aaa.

Ab kaun hai mera

Ab kaun hai  mera

Kaho ab kaun hai mera

Faryaaaad   hai….               ( Anmol Ghadi 1946)

 

Gandhi.That is true. Patel. Thanks for  enlightening me

 

Patel. Thanks Bapu. I am obliged.

 

Nehru ( Within himself) Patel is very talented. He knows how to put others in his basket.Kafi makhhan lagaata hai ( he  butters others much)

 

Gandhi. I learnt than in Andhra Pradesh Rosiah’s government has loosened control over liquor trade. In the latest tender bid from application tender deposit government has made Rs.6000 crores. Is the state going to dogs?

 

Patel. It is not going It has already gone..heee..heee…haaa…haaa

 

( Just then a Dog approaches them . It has a large paper in its mouth and it drops in front of Gandhi. Patel picks up the paper and sees it. He shouts with ecstasy)

 

Patel. . Oh God. What a coincidence!

 

Nehru. Patel, what is it?

 

Patel. This paper is the official map of Andhra Pradesh state.

 

( Patel hands over the map to Gandhi.)

 

Gandhi. eee..eee..aa…aa.. Really a great coincidence! Just now Patel said, the state of Andhra Pradesh has gone to dogs. See now this dog has the map of Andhra Pradesh in its mouth. How strange!  That means our predictions are very true.

 

(Gandhi pats the dog and appreciates and sings)

 

How nice you are my  shaggy  doggy

You are better than these foolish men

Although you are not a human

Your good deeds should be written by a pen

 

Dog. Bow wow. Bow wow. (It wags the tail happily and licks Gandhis hand.It soon lies down on its backand throws up its four legs up showing happiness)

 

Gandhi. Dear doggy. Enough of these tricks. From where you got this map?  By the by what is your name?

 

Dog. (Speaks in human voice)  Sir. My name is Jing bang Hyderabadi. Bow.. Wow. But what is there in a name? I stay near secretariat and it is very close by. In fact I was born  near secretariat three years ago. Every morning I go to the dust bin kept near the secretariat and pick up some thing from there. To day morning also I went there. I found heaps of papers there and some food too.  I picked up one paper from there and there are thousands of such papers   lying)

 

Gandhi. Ohfo. What a state of affairs! Thanks Jing bang for bringing this paper. Thanks again.

 

Dog. Thanks sir. (It runs away after sighting a hot bitch at a distance)

 

Patel. Bapu. Have you seen the dog. It was  ok and stable one second ago and now ran away after a bitch.

 

Gandhi. (Laughs) Look Patel. I know it. Old habits die hard. This guy in earlier life was a leader of some political party. He was a great womanizer. Next life he was born as a dog. But could not get rid off his old habits.

 

Patel. How could you say that.

 

Gandhi. I saw its face and could read.

 

Patel. Great Bapu. Mere Bapu , You are really great.

 

Gandhi. Patel. Now the government has made Rs. 6000 crores in a day and it will be after it.  Imagine the money they make from sales of liquor. The Rosiah’s government I was told has become bankrupt and it owes thousands of Crores to the Institutes of higher learning and students. Most of the colleges have not paid salaries to the staff members for many months. Things are very bad.

  

Patel. Bapu, this is all due to cockeyed and short sighted policies of the previous CM. He declared that tuition   fees would be paid to economically weaker sections if their annual income  was one lakh rupees and   below. It has boomeranged now. The gates have been thrown open to one and all. Except government servants every guy managed a certificate from revenue department and obtained seats in Institutions. It has become a chaos.  All real estate traders, general traders who roam around in Innova cars with gold chains around necks and wrists with 10 gold rings on their all   finger managed such certificates in the Institutions.

 

Gandhi.Haa..haa.. How foolish are our leaders who can not foresee that they are leading a corrupt society. Every where people get a government what they deserve. If people are honest they elect honest people and govt will be honest. (Sings).Why blame government when people are very bad and corrupt? As you sow so you reap.

 

When people are good

They elect the leaders that are best

If people are corrupt and crooked

How a state would get leaders that are honest?

 

Gandhi. What happened to these guys? Have I given freedom to these nuts to see this day? ( cries loudly) eee..eee..eeee..Oh I can not see all these things. I must die soon.

 

(He picks up a stone and hammers his own head  with great force. Nehru runs to him and takes away the stone and throws it away . Many people gather around when they see Gandhi crying. Satish, Narsimha, Yadgiri are among onlookers)

 

Yadgiri. What happened Bhai? Why  he is crying? Can we be of any help to you?

 

Satish. Is he sick? Let us call ambulance 108.

 

Patel. No.. No.. Plesae do not worry. He will be all right soon.

 

Narsimha. The old man appears weak. Has he   eaten anything?( He handsover Rs 50 note to Patel and he refuses promptly)

 

Patel. Thanks. We don’t feel hunger.

 

Yadgiri. Why? Don’t you have a stomach?

 

Nehry. It is because  dead people have no hunger.

 

Narsimha. Are you dead people? Are you mad?

 

Nehru. Then what? We are already dead.

 

Satish. You appear to be highly frustrated and dejected. How can you be dead? You are talking to us.

 

Patel. You will not understand this.

 

Satish. Ok. Plesae have this and your spirits will rise.

 

Gandhi. What is it?

 

( Satish  takes out a half  bottle of Indian whisky red and white from his  pant pocket and  shows to Gandhi)

 

Gandhi. eee…eeee….aaa…aa.. heee.. cheee,,,cheee.. aik..

 

Satish ( Laughs loudly) You guys appear to be just nuts and do not know to enjoy life. Till now, I have not seen any one refusing a free drink. You are  mere clowns in fact.

 

Patel. We want to be clowns only.

 

Narsimha. So be it, you jokers.

 

Patel. Please leave us to our fate

 

( In the distance Mukesh is heard singing)

 

Mujhe tumse kuch bina chaahiye

 

Mujhe mere haal pe chod jo

 

Mujhe mere haal pe chod do..   ( From film Kanhiah)

 

( I do not want any thing from you

Please leave me alone 

Leave me to my fate)

 

( Yadgiri, Satish and  Narsimah go away laughing at the trio)

 

Gandhi. Ohfo. What type of guys these are?

 

Patel . Every one will be like this. Our times are changed. Bapu, Let us go. It is getting dark.

 

Gandhi. OK

 

(The trio walks away singing  Ramhun)

                                        CURTAIN FALLS   

 

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