Edward Hoagland, The New York Times, March 23 2013:
"By our own account we’re pigs, yet bearish, owly but mousy, catty and bovine. We beaver at work, hawk merchandise, and ape others by parroting them. We’re lemmings, wolfish, snakes in the grass, weasels, bucks, hens, leonine or sharks. We’re beaky or tigerish, doe-eyed, raven-haired, foxy, chicken-hearted, slow as a tortoise, meek as a dove, sheepish, dogged, old goats, goosey, sitting ducks or vultures. We butt in, bull ahead, change our stripes or spots, strut like a peacock, weep crocodile tears, ram through or swan about. We’re rabbity, calf-eyed, we beat our chests like gorillas, buzz off, or act like a jellyfish."
संपादकीय, लोकसत्ता , मार्च 28 2013:"...लोकप्रतिनिधींनी हक्कभंग ठराव आणला म्हणून कोल्हेकुई करणारे काही जण सत्ताधारी भुजांच्या आधारे आपल्यात नसलेले बळ कसे वाढवीत होते याचे स्मरण शिमग्याच्या पवित्र दिनी करणे समयोचितच ठरणार नाही काय? काही पक्षीयांकडून झालेल्या कथित हल्ल्यांच्या न झालेल्या खोटय़ा जखमा मिरवण्यात ज्यांनी आयुष्य व्यर्थ घालवले तेच त्याच कथित हल्लेखोर पक्षप्रमुखांचे चरणतीर्थ घेण्यासाठी रांगेत उभे असतील तर ते दृश्य कधीही शिमग्याच्याच स्मृती जागवणार यात विशेष ते काय?..."
These days in Maharashtra a three-cornered contest is being fought:
Law Makers, Cops, Two Marathi TV news channels....
One does not know where it is going but I know how it will end: Amicably...the old order and peace will be restored...after all they are all respectable, award-winning/ decorated/ elected citizens of the greatest democracy on this planet...
But while it is going on, it's not even good entertainment...worse than the Marathi TV serials, including the one supposedly comic one
Although the quote at the top reminds of the great Aesop, in such times, I remember only one thing: George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'
from movie 'Animal Farm', 1954
courtesy: Halas and Batchelor, a British animation company
This is how the great book ends:
“The pigs and farmers return to their amiable card game, and the other animals creep away from the window. Soon the sounds of a quarrel draw them back to listen. Napoleon and Pilkington have played the ace of spades simultaneously, and each accuses the other of cheating. The animals, watching through the window, realize with a start that, as they look around the room of the farmhouse, they can no longer distinguish which of the cardplayers are pigs and which are human beings.”
from movie 'Animal Farm', 1954
courtesy: Halas and Batchelor, a British animation company and BBC
I am in this second picture. Can you spot me? Or am I in the first picture ?