Condolences to Sanghi acquaintances,
whose loved ones have suffered in this Modi-made humanitarian crisis, however meaningfully given,
automatically turn into empty words bereft of empathetic emotions..

I intend to show empathy for them...but my voice falters.

Each time everytime I remember the phrase,
लगेंगी आग तो आएंगे कईं घर ज़द में
यहाँ पे सिर्फ हमारा मक़ान थोड़ी है

These were the same privileged people who applauded Demonetisation, who were unaffected by flawed GST, who were unnerved after Kashmir's fate was sealed by Article 370 revocation, who sent 'hum honge kamayab' forwards after Phulwama, who voted Modi in 2019 in large numbers,

who criticised Shaheen Bagh & other anti-CAA protestors, who shared WA forwards of Tablighi last year, etc etc etc & who are ever eager to protect Modi from criticism...& equally eager to say, 'if not Modi, who?’ by mocking Rahul Gandhi.

These are the same people who suddenly get disinterested in politics when I send them articles by the global media exposing Modi's gigantic failures & his autocratic regime.

I wish to show empathy for these friends/relatives...
& I do mean good for them..

I feel sad when I remember that these were the same people who way back in 2012, mocked MMS by calling him lame duck, who showed great concern for the state of affairs of our nation, who exclaimed, 'काय होणार या देशाचं काही कळत नाही'

and all of their concern led them to heavy criticism of Congress's corrupt policies exposed by the then media.

Come 2014, they assumed bhaktship....
In 2019, they turned apolitical & secretly voted for BJP....

They belong to d privileged class who woke up to a rude shock, their privileges won't fetch them a single bed in any hospital, or their breathing might stop in absence of access to a single oxygen cylinder.
How I wish I could say to them,
बात निकलेगी तो फिर दूर तलक जाएंगी

Excuse me for this long rambling.
Btw India "recorded" 3.62 lakh new #positive #corona cases yesterday amidst its huge underreporting!
#ModiGovtSeNaHoPayega #ModiDisasterForIndia #SecondCOVIDWave #IndiaNeedsOxygen